Prof. Lieve Bradt is Associate Professor of Social Pedagogy affiliated to the Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy at Ghent University. She is head of the Programme of Master of Science in Social Work at Ghent University and teaches Social Pedagogy to students of Social Work and Educational Sciences. She is promotor-coordinator of the Flemish Youth Research Platform, an interuniversity and interdisciplinary policy-oriented research centre subsidized by the Flemish government. Her main research interest is youth research, with a particular focus on participation and citizenship of children and young people in the context of education, leisure time and local policy making.