I am taking part in a research project which is being sponsored by an Austrian charitable organisation called SOS-Kinderdorf. SOs-kd provides residential care for orphaned children and child refugees in more than 130 countries worldwide and has doing so since it began in Austria at the end of the Second World War.

Our project involves working with children and using digital cameras to try and gain some insight into their views of their world that might not be obvious to an outsider looking in. We are doing this as a contribution to the UN Year Against Violence to Children. In the first stage of the project three of us are going to four different countries for ten days each to see if the methods we have proposed work.

I am going to India in November to one of more than 30 Villages supported by SOS in India.