Laura Lundy

Laura Lundy is Professor of Children's Rights at Queen's University Belfast and Professor of Law at University College Cork. Lundy is also Co-Director of the Centre for Children's Rights, located at Queens University Belfast in Belfast.

Career, research and impact Alongside being a professor, a trained barrister at law, Co-Director of the Centre for Children's Rights, Lundy is also joint Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Children's Rights. Her research specialises in children's education rights, rights to participate in decision-making, and the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

Lundy's article on "'Voice' is not enough", published in 2007, is one of the most highly cited articles ever on children's rights and the model of children's participation is presents is used extensively both in practice and within scholarship. It was prominently featured in the Irish Department of Children and Youth Affairs' National Strategy on Children and Young People's Participation in Decision-Making, taking place between 2015 – 2020.