Publications: 2025

The Children's Institute produces a suite of publications and other outputs. These include peer-reviewed articles in national and international journals, books and book chapters, research reports, research briefs, policy briefs and policy submissions. The list of publications includes links to either the journal sites, pdfs or the OpenUCT repository.

Journal articles 

• Bal N, Pell C, Theilmann M, Polman K, Hoekstra T, Cindzi BT, Ginindza N, Dlamini S, Stehr L, Harkare HV, Reis R, van Leth F. Syndemic processes between non-communicable diseases and HIV within the Kingdom of Eswatini. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2025. doi:10.1136/jech-2025-223753
• Berry L, Crone RM, Mathews S, Reis R. “She is a mother, but still childish”. Exploring adult caregivers' perspectives on adolescent parenting. Child and Adolescent Work Journal. 2025 April 15. doi.org/10.1007/s10560-025-01020-2
• Burger R, du Plessis L, Gangaidzo T, Sadan M, Slemming W, Wills G. Priority interventions for reducing stunting in the complementary feeding age group in South Africa. Development Southern Africa. 2025; 1–19. doi:10.1080/0376835X.2025.2596786
• Dywati Z, Jamieson L. 2025. Towards decolonial pluriversality: a critical exploration of the 'decolonial turn' in childhoods studies on the study of African childhoods. Canadian Journal of Children's Rights/Revue canadienne des droits des enfants. 2025; 12(1):32-54. doi.ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/cjcr/article/view/5399
• Ellermeijer REC, Veldhuizen CIS, Bell B, Ray C, Krishanthan T, Castellanos Piedrahita JJ, Reis R, Jordans MJD. The development of a community-led child protection approach in low- and middle-income countries. Child Abuse Review. 2025; 34(6):e70074. doi:10.1002/car.70074
• Hamel C, Avard B, Chow R, Davies D, Dixon A, Eamer G, Garel J, Grimbly C, Jamieson L, et al. Canadian association of radiologists paediatric imaging referral guideline. Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal. 2025 May 2. 76(2):245-256. doi.org/10.1177/08465371241296820
• Gaidhane A, Fisher J, Slemming W, Radner J, Khatib MN, Holding P, Syed ZQ. Achieving impacts at scale in early childhood interventions: innovations in monitoring, evaluation, and learning. Frontiers in Public Health. 2025; 13.  doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1604737
• Horn A, Orgill M, Billings LD, Slemming W, Damme AV, Crone M, Gwele M, et al. Belonging: a meta-theme analysis of women’s community-making in group antenatal and postnatal care. Frontiers in Public Health. 2025; 13.  doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1506956
• Kiarie G, Gilson L, Orgill M. Workplace-based learning in district health leadership and management strengthening: a framework synthesis. Health Policy and Planning. 2025 January; 40(1): 105-119. doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czae095
• Nota PB, Crankshaw T, George G. From policy to practice: access to sexual and reproductive health services for adolescent girls and young women through the integrated school health policy in KwaZulu-Natal, South Arica. Journal of Community Systems for Health. 2025; 2(1). doi.org/10.36368/jcsh.v2i1.1197
• Orgill M, Lake L, Belrhiti Z, Hargoven M. Demystifying commercial influences on health: applying systems dynamics methodologies to policy processes; comment on “Using system dynamics to understand transnational corporate power in diet-related non-communicable disease prevention policy-making: a case study of South Africa”. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. 2025; 14(1): 1-4. doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.9174
• Orgill M, Marchal B, Harris B, Gilson L. Initiating systemic capacity development for leadership from the bottom-up: a realist evaluation of a leadership innovation in a South African health district. Health Policy and Planning. 2025 January; 40(1):31-41. doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czae099
• Pereira-Kotze CJ, Lake L, Kroon M, Saloojee H, du Pless L, Kubeka Z, et al. South African health professional association urged to end commercial milk formula industry sponsorship. Journal of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa. 2025; 3(1). doi.org/10.4102/jcmsa.v3i1.150
• Pienaar S, Slemming W, Machisa MT. Depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation associated with women’s experience of recent economic intimate partner violence in Gauteng, South Africa: a cross-sectional study. PLOS Global Public Health. 2025; 5(12):e0005390. doi:10.1371/journal.pgph.0005390
• Slemming W, Cohen E, Prioreschi A, Wrottesle S, Norris SA. “Love, you need to give your child love”: mothers’ perceptions of nurturing care for young children in South Africa. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. 2025; 1870996. doi.org/10.1155/cad/1870996
• Truter B, Slogrove AL, Ilhan E, Conradie P, Thompson L, Gillberg C, Billstedt E. Screening young children for neurodevelopmental differences in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review. BMC Psychiatry. 2025; 25(1):857. doi:10.1186/s12888-025-07279-0
• Wademan DT, Schaaf HS, Donald P, Hesseling AC, Raad R, Hoddinott G, Reis R, Reynolds L. A historical narrative review of the emerging priority of acceptability in tuberculosis treatment for children. Social Sciences and Humanities Open. 2025. doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.101381
• Waterston T, Cattaneo A, Bando N, Errico J, Boyle R, Brennan S, Lake L, et al. The urgent need to end sponsorship of healthcare professional associations by the commercial milk formula industry. Future Healthcare Journal. 2025 June; 12(2):100265. doi.org/10.1016/j.fhj.2025.100265

Books and book chapters

• Delany A, Nota PB, Slemming W. Getting it right from the start: Violence prevention for women and children in the first 1,000 days. In: Jamieson L, Mathews S, Machisa M, Lake L, editors. South African Child Gauge 2025. Cape Town: Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town; 2025. p. 48-56.
• Jamieson L. An enabling policy environment to stop violence against women and children.
  In: Jamieson L, Mathews S, Machisa M, Lake L, editors. South African Child Gauge 2025. Cape Town: Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town; 2025. p. 113-124.
• Jamieson L, Mathews S, Machisa M & Lake L. South African Child Gauge 2025. Cape Town: Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town. 2025.
• Meinck F, Dayal H, Hall K. Illuminating the invisible: the need for multisectoral data and information systems to guide services at the intersection of violence against women and children. In: Jamieson L, Mathews S, Machisa M, Lake L, editors. South African Child Gauge 2025. Cape Town: Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town; 2025. p. 162-173.
• Proudlock P, Lake L, Sujee Z, Petheridge D, Westwood A, Harker N, Mpedi A, et al. Law reform and case law affecting children 2024/25. In: Jamieson L, Mathews S, Machisa M, Lake L, editors. South African Child Gauge 2025. Cape Town: Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town; 2025. p. 16-29.
• Simelane S, Bantjes J, Kleintjes S, Lake L, Lund C, Mawoyo T, Nassen R, Tomlinson M.  Putting child and adolescent mental health at the centre: Building an ecosystem of support. In: Padarath A, Zingela Z, Bhana A, Gray A, Kleintjes S, Sodi T,  Petersen I, Talatala M, Maswime S, editors. South African Health Review 2024/25. Durban: Health Systems Trust, 2025.
• Wildeman R, Jamieson L, Lencoasa M. Public financing to protect violence against women and children. In: Jamieson L, Mathews S, Machisa M, Lake L, editors. South African Child Gauge 2025. Cape Town: Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town; 2025. p. 138-150.

Legal and policy submissions

• Proudlock P. Children's Institute submission on the draft regulations on public school admissions. 2025 December 5.
• Proudlock P, Nyathi M.  Children’s Institute’s submission on the Children’s Amendment Bill 18 of 2020. 2025 March 31.

Research reports 

• McCallin M, Menda S, Brown R, Siyo Y, van Zyl D, MacDonald M, Jamieson L, Kelly B. United and unique: Amplifying the voices of care leavers in South Africa and Northern Ireland – Youth Report. Belfast: Queen’s University Belfast; 2025.

Policy briefs

• Jamieson L, Mathews S, Machisa M, Lake L. Break the silos. Break the cycle. Integrated approaches to end violence against women and children. Cape Town: Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town; 2025.
• McCallin M, Menda S, Brown R, Siyo Y, van Zyl D, MacDonald M, Jamieson L, Kelly, B. United and unique: amplifying the voices of care leavers in South Africa and Northern Ireland - manifesto. Belfast: Queen's University Belfast; 2025.
• van Blerk L, Hunter J, Bkenya B, Ssenfuuma TJ, Theron L, Gama N, Jamieson L, Ramabulana F. Resilient systems supporting street youth to meet their basic needs. 2REST Mapping Systems for Resilient Street Youth; 2025.
• van Blerk L, Hunter J, Bkenya B, Ssenfuuma TJ, Theron L, Gama N, Jamieson L, Ramabulana F. Resilient health systems for street youth. 2REST Mapping Systems for Resilient Street Youth; 2025.
• van Blerk L, Hunter J, Bkenya B, Ssenfuuma TJ, Theron L, Gama N, Jamieson L, Ramabulana F. Resilient violence reductions systems for street youth. 2REST Mapping Systems for Resilient Street Youth; 2025.

Opinion editorials and press statements

• Children's Institute. South Africa’s efforts to break intergenerational cycles of harm must treat violence against women and children as interconnected crises. Children's Institute, University of Cape Town. 2025 November 4.
• Irlam J, Lake L. Too hot to handle: Are we doing enough to protect children from extreme heat? Daily Maverick. 2025 November 28.
• Jamieson L, Mathews S. G20 leaders must end violence to boost prosperity. Sunday Times. 2025 November 9.
• Nota P, Slemming W. Violence against women and children is deeply connected. Three ways to break the patterns. The Conversation. 2025 November 21.

Presentations (international)

• Jamieson L, Wright L, Cuevas-Parra P. Addressing disparities in knowledge creation: opportunities and pitfalls of participatory research methodologies. 5th ISA Forum of Sociology. 2025 July 6-11; Rabat, Morocco.
• Jamieson L. Experiences from the International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership’s (ICCRP) research about intergenerational relationships to advance children’s rights. International Child and Family Conference. 2025 June 18; University of Bristol, Bristol.
• Jamieson L, Collins T, Cuevas-Parra P. Addressing challenges in safeguarding children in childhood research across diverse communities across the Global North-South Divide. International Child and Family Conference. 2025 June 18; University of Bristol, Bristol.
• Jamieson L, Herbert B, Okot B, and Awa I. Turning pledges into action: ending corporal punishment globally. Global Parenting Initiative webinar. 2025 April 24.
• Kelly B, Jamieson L. Youth priorities for leaving care research and practice: reflections from an international learning community with care leavers. European Scientific Association on Residential and Family Care for Children and Adolescents. 2025 September 8-12.
• Lake L. Using children’s rights to advocate for change. Child Health Advocacy Around the World: International Paediatrics Association’s 5th Young Paediatricians’ Webinar. 2025 March 28.
• Nomdo C, Ndlovu X, Jamieson L. Using social media and AI to promote children’s participation in governance. 2nd International Children’s Rights Conference. 2025 September 9-11; University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town.
• van Blerk L, Hunter J, Shand W, Bukenya B, Jamieson L, Theron LC. Conceptualising street youth lived resiliencies: applying a multidimensional perspective to creating resilient realities in African cities. Children and young people’s resilient lives in dynamic and challenging contexts. American Association of Geographers Conference. 2025.

Presentations (national)

• Lake L. Why is it important to address the intersections of violence against women and children? Understanding the science and central role of health care system. Child Health Priorities Conference. 2025 November 27.
• Lake L. Advancing early childhood development. Key findings from the 2024 South African Child Gauge. City of Cape Town ECD Indaba. 2025 November 8; Cape Town.
• Lake L. Gauging progress and advancing early childhood development. Centre for Early Childhood Development Conference. Opening plenary discussion. 2025 September 30; Cape Town.
• Lake L. South African health professional associations urged to end commercial milk formula industry sponsorship. Rural Health Conference. 2025 September 16.
• Lake L. Supporting breastfeeding: How can we better respond to parents’ needs. National Department of Health, World Breastfeeding Week Webinar. 2025 August 7.
• Lake L. Gender Equity Policy:  Embedding principles to support caregiving. University Human Resources Committee, University of Cape Town. 2025 June 2; Cape Town.