The Critical Childhood Studies Research Group (CCSRG) provides a focal point for vibrant and innovative research, teaching, and public engagement on the complex links between unequal childhoods and social justice. CCSRG researchers examine how social, political, cultural, and economic changes affect childhoods, as well as young people’s contributions and creative responses to dynamic global contexts. Ultimately, we seek to improve the social status of childhood, help to realise children’s human rights, and explore new possibilities for achieving social justice with and for children and young people. Members of CCSRG constitute a diverse group of multi-disciplinary scholars from the Social Research Institute and others in UCL. Members share an understanding of childhood as social phenomenon and children as a marginalised social group at the intersections of generation, race, class, gender, (dis)ability, and nation. The dynamic scholars who make up the CCSRG have an established reputation for high quality research and public engagement informed by children and young people, bringing their experiences, insights, and social positions into the heart of knowledge production, policy, and practice and improving their lives in diverse global contexts. The CCSRG builds on the Social Science Research Unit’s foundational scholarship in the sociology of childhood and aims to forge links with critical childhood studies scholars across UCL and beyond.