10 Full-time Short courses in Childhood Studies

Turn your passion for working with children into a rewarding career with Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care programme from Victoria University.

Malmö University offers the Children's Best Interests in Theory and Practice programme.

The Childhood Adversity - Understanding the Impact of Childhood Adversity on the Life of a Infant, Child, and Young Person micro-credential from Trinity College Dublin will be offered to professionals who work with children and families in healthcare, community, and education settings. Delivered live, the course offers real-time interaction and greater value.

Do children’s books do justice to the diversity in society and their readership? How can we make these books more inclusive? Explore these questions with leading academics and a highly international group of students in the Children's Literature, Certificate at the University of Antwerp.

This Theorising Childhood and Adolescence course offered by The University of Lancashire aims to encourage those working with children to develop critical perspectives on childhood.

Malmö University's Children's Literature in a Global Perspective course combines two approaches to children’s literature – the critical and pedagogical. Examples of important critical and theoretical perspectives are provided, and the major problems pertaining to the genre and history of children’s literature are covered.

The Youth and Globalisation course from UCL Summer School introduces youth studies, with a particular focus on critically exploring the association between youth and the globalising world.

Malmö University offers the Children's Rights programme.

The Chicago Parent Program offered by Johns Hopkins University is a 12-session, video and group-based parenting skills training program that has been shown to improve parenting skills and confidence and reduce behavior problems in young children 2-5 years old. 

The community education sector focuses on lifelong learning and collective development for people of all ages within a community. In contrast, the youth education sector is specifically targeted at young people, emphasising their personal growth, civic participation, and transition into adulthood. The summer school course examines how socio-politically important community education.