26-28 Feb 2025: CHILD Conference

CHILD Conference 2025 is a global platform for early childhood researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to actively exchange ideas and experiences across local, regional, and international early childhood communities. The conference is hosted by the Centre for Holistic Initiatives for Learning and Development (CHILD) at the National University of Singapore, in which CEI is a partner.

The conference theme Translating Evidence for Impact: Bridging research, policy, and practice in early childhood underscores the pivotal role of evidence-based approaches in shaping the lives of young children.

By connecting research findings with practical applications and policy decisions, we create a powerful synergy that drives positive outcomes. 

Find out more HERE

Call for abstracts open until 23 September 2024

This is the opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to share your research and insights with like-minded thought leaders and peers within the early childhood development community.

The organising team are inviting submissions for curated panel discussions, oral presentations, and lightning talks, focused around four sub-themes.

Sub-theme 1: Context counts – the gentle art of adaptation

Evidence-informed solutions cannot be successfully implemented without understanding setting and context. How can we be rigorous in using data and evidence, and flexible in our application within early childhood research and practice? How can interventions consider and adapt to place, cultures, systems, families, and communities?

Sub-theme 2: Implementation and impact – assessing ‘how’ as well as ‘what’ works

To drive sustained, large-scale change, we need to know not just what works, but how to make things work. This theme explores evaluation of implementation and impact: how we can drive real-time implementation improvement for enhanced insights and better child and family outcomes?

Sub-theme 3: It’s all in the method – knowledge translation to innovations

Knowledge transfer and translation is multi-dimensional, and participatory. What are the methods with which we can drive better translation of evidence in child health, development and wellbeing? What innovations are possible? What are the implications for research, policy and practice?

Sub-theme 4: Together we are stronger – from collaboration to partnership and co-design

We achieve the greatest impact for children and families when we work in concert – with participants and with each other. This theme embraces collective and collaborative ways of working: community involvement, stakeholder engagement, co-design, co-development and more.

Find out more about abstract submission HERE

Read a summary of the inaugural CHILD Conference HERE