Sheridan Bartlett
 
  EDUCATION

B.A. with honors, English literature, 1967; Manhattanville College
M.S. in geography, 1990; University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ed.D. in human development, 1996; University of Massachusetts Amherst

WORK EXPERIENCE

2002-present Consultant for Save the Children Sweden (research) Save the Children US, Bangladesh (research and program support) Associate editor, Children, Youth and Environment

2002 -2003 Consultant for World Bank and Innocenti Research Centre, Florence

1999 – present

Senior research associate, Human Settlements Programme, International

Institute of Environment and Development (IIED), London

Managing editor, Environment and Urbanization

Consultant, Save the Children (US and Norway) in Nepal,

research and program development

1998-99 Visiting fellow, Human Settlements Programme, IIED

1995-Present Research associate, Children’s Environments Research Group, CUNY

1995- 98 Consultant, UNICEF Urban Section

1992-95 Co-editor, Children's Environments, Children’s Environments Research Group

1988-95 Free lance consultancy and adjunct teaching, USA

1978-87 Housebuilder/contractor

1976 Director, community day care center
1967-69 Elementary school teacher

   
   

Research Areas

Children and physical environment; early childhood programming; child rearing; children and housing; urban children; injury prevention; water and sanitation, school quality issues

   
   

Publications

Programs that deliver for dalit children, Save the Children USA, Kathmandu Nepal, in press
• Water, sanitation and urban children: the need to go beyond “improved” provision, Environment and Urbanization 15(2) 57-71, 2003
What’s the difference? The impact of early education programs in Nepal, Save the Children, UNICEF 2003, (with Arnold and Sapkota)
Children’s Rights and the Physical Environment: A Review of Current Knowledge, Save the Children Sweden, 2002
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Reporting System and the Physical Environment, Save the Children Sweden, 2002
Poverty and Exclusion among Urban Children, Innocenti Digest, Florence, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2002 (with David Satterthwaite)
• Children’s injuries in low-income countries: a review of research and practice, Health Policy and Planning, 17(1) 1-13, 2002
• Children and development assistance: the need to reorient priorities and programmes, Development in Practice, 11 (1) 2001
Participatory Research Handbook: Conversations with Families to Prepare for Early Childhood Programming, Nepal: Save the Children, UNICEF 2001 (with Arnold and Hill)
• International aid: What’s in it for children? CRIN Newsletter: Children and Macroeconomics, #13, November 2000
Bringing up Children in a Changing World: Conversations with Parents in Nepal, Nepal: Save the Children, 2000 (with Arnold, Hill, Khatiwada, Sapkota,)
• Children’s experience of the physical environment in poor urban settlements, and the implications for policy, planning and practice, Environment and Urbanization 11(2) 63-75. 1999
Cities for Children: Children’s Rights, Poverty and Urban Management. London: Earthscan, 1999 (with Hart, Satterthwaite, de la Barra, Missair)
• Does inadequate housing perpetuate children’s poverty? Childhood, 5 (4) 403-420, 1998
• Housing as a factor in the socialization of children: A critical review of the literature, Merrill Palmer Quarterly, 43 (2) 169-199, 1997
• No place to play: implications for the interaction of parents and children, Journal for Children and Poverty, 3 (1) 37-49, 1997
• The significance of relocation for chronically poor families in the USA, Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 9 (1) 1997
• Chief rapporteur, Children’s rights and habitat: Housing, neighborhood, and settlement: Report of the Expert Seminar. UNICEF, February 1996
• Chief rapporteur, Working towards child friendly cities. UNICEF, September 1996
• Amiable space in the schools of Reggio Emilia: an interview with Lella Gandini, Children's Environments, 10 (2) 1993
• Kids aren’t like they used to be: nostalgia and reality in neighborhood life, Children’s Environments Quarterly, 8(1), 1991

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