Publications

Zamani, N., Keegan, T., Mohammed, A-R., Douangphachanh, M., Twum-Danso Imoh, A., Vongphachanh, S., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (in press). “Like a Kid’s Book”: Pilot Testing of a Visual Informed Consent (VIC) Form with Children in Canada, Ghana, and Lao PDR. Children & Society.

Schutz, F., LeGall, J., Pontbriand, A., Lapalme, A., Maynard, S., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (in press). Differences in migrant men’s use of services in Quebec: Perceived physical health, psychological well-being, and the effects of COVID-19. International Journal of Men’s Social and Community Health.

Musiwa, A. S., Sinha, V., Hanley, J., Skovdal, M., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (in press). “That’s where our humanness lies”: How families leverage their social capital to navigate access to antenatal care in rural Zimbabwe. Community Health Equity Research & Policy.

Tisdall, E. K. M., Robinson, C., Battaglia, S. M., Shukul, S., Ruiz-Casares, M., & D’souza, N. A. (2025). Reframing payment practices for co-research for children and young people. (external link)  Research Ethics, 0(0). 

Mansouri, S., Correa Pereira, C., Sultana, T., Ruiz-Casares, M., & Nazif-Munoz, J.I. (2025). Labor market policies: the effect on children home alone in The Gambia, Mauritania, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Child Protection & Practice 6, 100226. 

Merry, L., Ruiz-Casares, M., Archambault, I. and Hanley, J. (2025), The Well-Being and Ill-Being of Transnational Grandparents of Migrant Families Living in Canada. (external link)  Global Networks, 25: e70015. 

Ruiz-Casares, M., Feng, R.Y., Zamani, N., Iwo, R., Janus, M., Twum-Danso Imoh, A., & Nazif-Munoz, J-I. (2025). Children supervising children across low- and middle-income countries: the role of mothers’ education. (external link)  Humanit Soc Sci Commun 12, 694. 

Halder, S., Ruiz-Casares, M., Yamaguchi, S., Dhali, H. H., Mukherjee, R., Calderon-Moya, M., Mandal, A., Rankin, S., Guzder, J., & Ghosh, R. (2025). Nature, Causes, and Impact of Human–Wildlife Interactions on Women and Children Across Cultures. (external link)  World, 6(2), 55. [First two authors contributed equally] 

Thompson, J. A., Gonzalez, E., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2025). Picturing informed consent: Exploring participatory visual methods to enhance meaningful consent conversations with young people. (external link)  Research Ethics, 0(0). 

Klassen, C.L., Gonzalez, E., Rousseau, C., Hanley, J., Papazian-Zohrabian, G., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2025). Fox-like. One eye open, one eye closed”: child supervision among Syrian refugee mothers in Canada. (external link)  Frontiers in Psychology, 16. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1548646.

Park, S., Fung, K., Lach, L., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2025). Perspectives of Child Supervision Amongst South Korean Caregivers and Adolescents in Toronto. International Health Trends & Perspectives, 5(1), 89-106. 

D’souza, N., Tisdall, K., Battaglia, S., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2025). Young people are crucial to research — how can they be paid fairly? (external link)  Nature 637, 789-791

Andrina, M., Nazif-Muñoz, J. I., Smith, R., Shirley, A., Sudrajat, T., Utami, A. Y., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2024). Parental education and attitudes towards institutionalization of children in West Java, Indonesia (external link) . Child Protection and Practice, 3, 100072. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chipro.2024.100072

Merry, L., Trintignac, M., Hanley, J., Ruiz-Casares, M., & Archambault, I. (2024). La méthode transnationale : réflexions tirées d’une étude sur le soutien familial transnational utilisant les technologies de la communication. Revue francophone internationale de recherche infirmière.

Gentz, S., Ruíz Casares, M., & Casas, F. (2024). The self-reported well-being of children in Namibia: Testing hedonic and eudaimonic instruments. Journal of Psychology in Africa (external link) , 34(3), 274–284. https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2024.2363696

Sultana T, Ruiz-Casares M, Iwo R, Janus M, Nazif-Muñoz JI. Maternal Education and Children Home Alone in 63 Low- and Middle-Income Countries (external link) . Global Pediatric Health. 2024;11. doi:10.1177/2333794X241258179

Musiwa, A.S., Sinha,V., Hanley, J., & Ruiz-Casares, (2024). M. Antenatal care coverage and early childhood mortality in Zimbabwe: New interpretations from Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. Health Promotion International.

Musiwa, A. S., Sinha, V., Hanley, J., Ruiz-Casares, M., & Skovdal, M. (2024). “All These Methods Complement Each Other”: Antenatal Care Acceptability in Contexts of Antenatal Care Pluralism in Rural Manicaland, Zimbabwe (external link) . Women’s Reproductive Health, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/23293691.2024.2345092 

Friedrich Schutz, F., Miconi, D., Bedin, L.M., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2024). Contribution of Relationships with Friends and Teachers and Experiences of School Violence to the Subjective Well-Being of Immigrant Children (external link) . J Happiness Stud 25, 30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-024-00733-y

Ruiz-Casares, M., Phommavong, S., Park, S., & Douangphachanh, M. (2024). ‘Supervising children to be good people’: Parents and children's views of child supervision in Laos (external link) . Child & Family Social Work, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.13140

Ruiz-Casares M, Sullivan R, Gonzalez E, Li P, Lacharité C. (2023). Cross-Cultural Mobility and Agency in Assessing the Appropriateness of Child Supervision in the Context of Cultural Diversity and Migration in Quebec (external link) . Social Sciences,12(9):515. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12090515

Iwo, R., Ruiz-Casares, M. & Nazif-Muñoz, J.I. (2023). The Increasing Prevalence of Children Home Alone in Ghana: The Importance of Considering Regional Inequalities (external link) . Child Ind Res 16, 2013–2032. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-023-10038-w 

Talbot, K., Talavera, P., Schutz, F., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2023). Pre-/Post-Assessment of a sexual and reproductive health training program for young people in Namibia (external link) . Global Journal of Health Science, 15 (1): 47-57. doi: 10.5539/gjhs.v15n1p47.

Yamaguchi, S., Bentayeb, N., Holtom, A., Molnar, P., Constantinescu, T., Tisdall, E.K.M., Tuong, J., Iyer, S., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2023). Participation of Children and Youth in Mental Health Policymaking: A Scoping Review [Part I] (external link) . Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 50(1):58-83. doi: 10.1007/s10488-022-01223-0.

Yamaguchi, S., Tuong, J., Tisdall, E.K.M., Bentayeb, N., Holtom, Iyer, S., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2023). “Youth as ‘accessories’”: Stakeholder perspectives on youth participation in mental health policymaking [Part II] (external link)  Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 50(1):84-99.doi: 10.1007/s10488-022-01230-1.

Gonzalez, E. & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2022). Photo journals with refugee youth: Methodological reflections of conducting research during the pandemic. Special Issue L. Gautier & N. Bentayeb (Guest Eds.), “Expérience des réfugiés, demandeurs d’asile et migrants sans statut et offre de services de santé et sociaux pendant la pandémie au Québec”. Alterstice, 11(2), 79-96.

Ruiz-Casares, M., Thombs, B.D., Mayo, N, Scott, S, Andrina, M, Platt, R.W. (2022). The Families First Program to Prevent Child Abuse: Results of a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in West Java, Indonesia (external link) . Prev Sci. 23, 1457–1469 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-022-01433-w

Gonzalez, E. & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2022). “I wish every day was Saturday”: Newcomer youth and program facilitators’ experiences of a community-based resettlement program during the COVID-19 pandemic in Montreal (external link) . International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2022.2061074

Gentz, S., Chouinard, L.J., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2022). Time use and time use satisfaction: An examination of children’s out of school activities in Namibia (external link) . Special Issue “Searching for the Everyday in African Childhoods”, Journal of the British Academy, pp. 59-82. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/010s2.059

Rousseau, C., Rummens, J.A., Frounfelker, R.L. Ruiz-Casares, M., & Cleveland (2021). Canadian Health Personnel Attitudes Toward Refugee Claimants’ Entitlement to Health Care (external link) . Int. Migration & Integration. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-021-00892-4

Gonzalez, E., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2021).  Negotiating child agency in childcare practices among immigrant families (external link) . Child & Family Social Work, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12869

Gentz S, Zeng C, & Ruiz-Casares M. (2021). The role of individual-, family-, and school-level resilience in the subjective well-being of children exposed to violence in Namibia (external link) . Child Abuse Negl. 119(Pt 2):105087. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105087. Epub 2021 May 13. PMID: 33992423.

Bérubé, A., Clément, M. È., Lafantaisie, V., LeBlanc, A., Baron, M., Picher, G., Turgeon, J., Ruiz-Casares, M., & Lacharité, C. (2021). How societal responses to COVID-19 could contribute to child neglect (external link) . Child abuse & neglect, 116(Pt 2), 104761. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104761

Grégoire-Labrecque, G., Lafantaisie, V., Trocmé, N., Lacharité, C., Li, P., Audet, G., Sullivan, R., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2020). ‘Are We Talking as Professionals or as Parents?’ Complementary views on supervisory neglect among professionals working with families in Quebec, Canada (external link) . Children and Youth Services Review, 118, 105407. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105407

Ruiz-Casares, M., Lacharité, C., & Martin, F. (2020). Child Neglect Indicators: a Field in Critical Need of Development Globally (external link) . Child Indicators Research, 13(2), 363-367. doi:10.1007/s12187-019-09712-9

Klassen, C. L., Gonzalez, E., Sullivan, R., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2020). ‘I’m just asking you to keep an ear out’: parents’ and children’s perspectives on caregiving and community support in the context of migration to Canada (external link) . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-19. doi:10.1080/1369183X.2019.1707647

Collins, T, Jamieson, L., Wright, L.H.V., Rizzini, I., Mayhew, A., Tisdall, A.K.M. & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2020).  Involving child and youth advisors in academic research about child participation: The Child and Youth Advisory Committees of the International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership (external link) . Children and Youth Services Review, 109, 104569. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.104569 

Ruiz-Casares, M. & Gonzalez, E. (2020). La Participación infantil en la investigación sobre la protección de la niñez: El papel de los comités asesores de niños, niñas y jóvenes.  O Social em Questão - Ano XXIII - nº 46 - Jan a Abr/2020

Merry, L., Hanley, J., Ruiz-Casares, M., Archambault, I., Mogere, D. (2019). Migrant families with children in Montreal, Canada and transnational family support: A protocol for a focused ethnography (external link) . BMJ Open, 2019 Sep 26;9(9):e029074. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029074.

Cislaghi, B., Bukuluki, P., Chowdhury, M., Miranda Espinosa, A., Kenny, L., Kohl, A.,  Kusumaningrum, S., Harouna Brah, B., Love, C., Mathpati, M., Nkwi, P., Ona, F., Porter, J., Ruiz-Casares, M., Saldanha, N., Sulaiman, M., and Wessels, M. (2019). Global Health Is Political; Can It Also Be Compassionate? (external link)  Journal of global health, 9(2), 020306. doi:10.7189/jogh.09.020306

Moon, J., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2019). Family’s Migration Experience and Distress Among Asian-Canadian Immigrant Youth (external link) . Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 50(1), 7-32. doi:10.3138/jcfs.009-2017

Ruiz-Casares, M., Lilley, S., Thombs, B., Platt, R.W., Scott, S., Isdijoso, W., Hermanus, E., Andrina, M., & Mayo, N. (2019). Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating a parenting with home visitation programme to prevent physical and emotional abuse of children in Indonesia: The Families First Programme (external link) . BMJ Open, 9(1), e021751. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021751

Nazif-Muñoz, J I, Nandi, A. and Ruiz-Casares, M.  2018. “Dataset and figures on time-series analysis of child restraint policy impact in Chile.” (external link)  Data in Brief, 21, 2290-2315 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.11.079

Ruiz-Casares, M., Nazif-Muñoz, J.I., Iwo, R., & Oulhote, Y. (2018). Nonadult Supervision of Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Results from 61 National Population-Based Surveys. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15, 1564.

Nazif-Muñoz, J.I., Nandi, A.,& Ruiz-Casares, M. (2018). Protecting only white children: the case of child restraint legislation in Brazil (external link) . Journal of Public Health, 41(2), 287–295. doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdy105

Ruiz-Casares, M. & Nazif-Muñoz, J. I. (2018). Non-adult child supervision practices in Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Child Abuse & Neglect 84, 217-228.

Nazif-Muñoz, J.I., Nandi, A., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2018). Impact of Child Restraint Policies on Child Occupant Fatalities and Injuries in Chile and its Regions: A Time–Series Study. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 120, 28-45.

Miconi, D, Beeman, I, Robert, E., Beatson, J., and Ruiz-Casares, M. (2018). Child Supervision in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review (external link) . Children and Youth Services Review, 89, 226-242. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.04.040

Robert, E., Merry, L., Benoît, M., Guimaraes, D. B., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2018). Rien ne doit se faire pour eux sans eux : renforcer la participation des demandeurs d'asile, réfugiés et migrants sans statut et des organismes communautaires dans la recherche en santé (external link) . Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique, 109(3), 312-315. doi:10.17269/s41997-018-0042-9

Gentz, S., Calonge Romano. I., Martínez Arias, R., and Ruiz-Casares, M. (2018) Mental Health Among Adolescents Living With HIV in Namibia: the Role of Poverty, Orphanhood and Social Support (external link) . AIDS Care, 30(sup2), 83-91. doi:10.1080/09540121.2018.1469727

Gentz, S., Calonge Romano, I., Martínez-Arias, R., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2017). Predictors of Mental Health Problems in Adolescents Living with HIV in Namibia (external link) . Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 22(4), 179-185. doi:10.1111/camh.12247.

Ruiz-Casares, M., Steele, R., Bangura, R., and Oyat, G. (2017) Preventing Parent-Child Separation: Myths and Facts from a KAP Survey in Central and Western Liberia (external link) . Global Social Welfare, 4(4), 219-231.doi:10.1007/s40609-017-0090-8

Rousseau C, Oulhote Y, Ruiz-Casares M, Cleveland J, Greenaway C (2017) Encouraging understanding or increasing prejudices: A cross-sectional survey of institutional influence on health personnel attitudes about refugee claimants' access to health care (external link) . PLoS ONE 12(2): e0170910. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170910

Ruiz-Casares, M., Collins, T. M., Tisdall, E. K. M., & Grover, S. (2017). Children’s rights to participation and protection in international development and humanitarian interventions: nurturing a dialogue (external link) . The International Journal of Human Rights, 21(1), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/13642987.2016.1262520

Ruiz-Casares, M., Drummond, J.D., Beeman, I., & Lach, L. (2016). Promoting the mental health of ethnoculturally diverse adolescents: A scoping review of the literature (external link) . Health & Social Care in the Community, 2017 Mar;25(2):743-757. doi: 10.1111/hsc.12364. Epub 2016 Jun 10.†

Ruiz-Casares, M., Cleveland, J., Oulhote, Y., Dunkley-Hickin, C., and Rousseau, C. (2016). Knowledge of Healthcare Coverage for Refugee Claimants: Results From a Survey of Health Service Providers in Montreal (external link) . PLoS ONE 11(1): e0146798. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0146798.

Ruiz-Casares, M., & Phommavong, S. (2016). Determinants and Consequences of Children Living Outside of Parental Care in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Views and Experiences of Adults and Young People in Family and Residential Care (external link) . Global Social Welfare, 3(2), 125-135. doi: 10.1007/s40609-016-0053-5. 

Ruiz-Casares, M. (2016). Growing healthy children and communities: Children’s insights in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (external link) . Global Public Health, 11(5-6), 564-582. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2016.1166256. 

Benrimoh, D., Warsi, N., Hodgson, E., Demko, N., Chen, B.Y., Habte, R., Dandurand-Bolduc, C., Silverberg, S., Xia, S., Chu, L., Ruel-Laliberté, J., Harris, J., Pon, K., Singh, M., Agarwal, A., Kim, L., Whalen-Browne, M., Ali, E., Sahar, N., Wellmeier, L., Smith, L., Arora, N., Houde, R., Devlin, G., Zigby, J-A., Andermann, A., Rousseau, C., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2016). An Advocacy and Leadership Curriculum to Train Socially Responsible Medical Learners (external link) . AMEE MedEdPublish, 5, [2], 34. DOI: 10.15694/mep.2016.000062 †

Ruiz-Casares, M., Kolyn, L., Sullivan, R., & Rousseau, C. (2015). Parenting Adolescents from Ethno-Cultural Backgrounds: A National Scan of Community-Based Programs (external link) . Child and Youth Services Review, 53, 10 – 16. DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.03.021

Ruiz-Casares, M. & Thompson, J. (2014). Obtaining Meaningful Informed Consent: Preliminary Results of a Study to Develop Visual Informed Consent (VIC) Forms With Children (external link) . Children’s Geographies, 1 – 11. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2014.971713

Ruiz-Casares, M. (2014). Children’s Rights: Building From a Sense of Fairness. An Interview with Landon Pearson. Canadian Journal of Children’s Rights, 1(1), 6 – 17.

Ruiz-Casares, M. (2014). Tailor Informed Consent Processes. Nature, 513, 304.

Ruiz-Casares, M. (2014). Global Mental Health: Advancing Culturally Responsive Mental Health Research. Transcultural Psychiatry, 51(6), 1 – 16.

Ruiz-Casares, M., Lacharité, C., & Martin, F. (2020). Special Issue: Child Neglect. Child Indicators Research, 13(2), 363-571. 

Collins, T. M., Grover, S., Ruiz-Casares, M., & Tisdall, E. K. M. (2017). Special Issue: Facilitating Child Participation in International Child Protection. International Journal of Human Rights, 21(1).

Gentz, S. & Ruiz-Casares, M. (forthcoming). Namibia. In J.S. Hong, R. Thornberg, V.J. Llorent & Z. Han (Eds.), Bullying: Global case studies in policy and prevention for young people. Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.

Paccione, L., Measham, T., Kronick, R., Meloni, F., Ricard-Guay, A., Zamani, N., Rousseau, C., and Ruiz-Casares, M. (2024). The Mental Health of Children Facing Collective Adversity. Poverty, homelessness, war, displacement. In Rey JM (ed), IACAPAP e-Textbook of Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Geneva: International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions.

Musiwa, A. S.& Ruiz-Casares, M. (2024) Child Neglect and Inadequate Supervision in Policies in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Routledge Handbook of Child and Family Social Work Research: Knowledge-Building, Application, and Impact. Elizabeth Fernandez, Bethany Lee, Penelope Welbourne and Joyce Ma (Eds.).

Ruiz-Casares, M. (2024). Children without parental care in armed conflict settings: the right to family life and alternative care arrangements. In Denov, M. & Fennig, M. (Eds), Research Handbook of Children and Conflict, p. 232-252. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN: 978 1 83910 480 0

Lacharité, C., Ruiz-Casares, M., & Martin, F. (2022). Indicateurs de qualité de l’accompagnement des familles dans les situations de négligence envers l’enfant. In Séraphin, G. (Ed), Qualité de l’accompagnement en protection de l’enfance : Établir des indicateurs, p. 101-118. Paris : L’Harmattan. ISBN : 978-2-14-030096-7

Ruiz-Casares, M. (2021). The Participatory Photography Assessment Tool (P-PAT). In Jamieson, L., Feinstein, C., Kapell, A., & Dulieu, N. (2021). Working together: Including children in research on violence against children. A resource pack for research practitioners. Edinburgh: End Violence Partnership Knowledge Network, End Violence Lab and Save the Children. p 97-98.

Ruiz-Casares, M. (2020). Child-Headed Households. SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies, 1, 296-298. Daniel Thomas Cook (Ed.). Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications. ISBN: 9781473942929

Ruiz-Casares, M. & Oates, J. (2018). Informed Consent. The Sage Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development. Marc H. Bornstein (Ed.) ISBN: 9781506307657.

Ruiz-Casares, M., Gentz, S., & Beatson, J. (2018). Children as Providers and Recipients of Support: Redefining Parenting Among Child-Headed Households in Namibia. In Maria Rosario T. de Guzman, Jill Brown, Carolyn Pope Edwards (Eds.) “Parenting From Afar: The Reconfiguration of the Family Across Distance.” Oxford University Press.

Ruiz-Casares, M. (2018). Children On The Move: Facilitating and Valuing Children’s Contributions through Research. In CRAN 9th Annual Meeting [Report]. Ottawa, ON: Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children’s Rights, Carleton University.

Gentz, S. & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2016). Gender and HIV in Namibia. The Contribution of Social and Economic Factors in Women’s HIV Prevalence (pp. 247 – 256). In James S. Etim (Ed.) Introduction to Gender Studies in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Reader. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.

Ruiz-Casares, M. (2015). Standing up for Children’s Right to Play: Reflections on Shaking the Movers VII and Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. In CRAN 6th Annual Meeting [Report]. Ottawa, ON: Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children’s Rights.

Ruiz-Casares, M. (2014). Young People’s Views on Mental Health and Access to Healthcare: Reflections on Shaking the Movers VI and Articles 23 and 24 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Standing Up for Children’s Mental Health. In CRAN 5th Annual Meeting [Report]. Ottawa, ON: Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children’s Rights, Carleton University.

Oral Presentations

Tisdall, K. & Ruiz-Casares, M. Questioning Underlying Assumptions of Ethical Practices and Regulations in Co-Research with Children and Young People. 5th ISA Forum of Sociology, Rabat, Morocco, 6-11 July 2025.

Ruiz-Casares, M., Twum-Danso Imoh, A., Mohammed, A-R., Douangphachanh, M., Iwo, R., Yu, Y., Zamani, N., Janus, M. & Mansouri, S. Problematizing "Home Alone" Cross-Culturally, Methodological and Ethical Challenges in Qualitative Fieldwork with Children (Part II), 5th ISA Forum of Sociology, Rabat, Morocco, 6-11 July 2025. 

Ruiz-Casares, M. & Collins, T. The International & Canadian Child Rights Partnership: Research on Intergenerational Relationships to Advance Children’s Rights. 1st Intl Child and Family Conference. University of Bristol, UK, 17-19 June 2025.

Ruiz-Casares, M. & Nazif-Munoz, I. Studying child supervision globally. 1st Intl Child and Family Conference. University of Bristol, UK, 17-19 June 2025.

Collins, T. & Ruiz-Casares, M. The International & Canadian Child Rights Partnership: Research on Intergenerational Relationships to Advance Children’s Rights. 1st Intl Child and Family Conference. University of Bristol, UK, 17-19 June 2025.

Zamani, N., Gonzalez, E., Ruiz-Casares, M., & Janus, M. Navigating Challenges and Opportunities in Real-World, Interdisciplinary, International Collaborations. 1st Intl Child and Family Conference. University of Bristol, UK, 17-19 June 2025.

Mohammed, A-R., Douangphachanh, M., Twum-Danso Imoh, A., Yu, Y., Ruiz-Casares, M. Children and adult's views on child supervision and sibling care. 1st Intl Child and Family Conference. University of Bristol, UK, 17-19 June 2025. 

Andrina, M., Iwo, R., Mansouri, S., Ruiz-Casares, M., & Nazif-Muñoz, J.I. Surveying child supervision in Ghana and Laos. 1st Intl Child and Family Conference. University of Bristol, UK, 17-19 June 2025.

Lele, M. & Ruiz-Casares, M. Empowering Change: An Appreciative Inquiry Study of Canadian Anti-Trafficking Organizations and Initiatives. 16th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), Toronto, ON, May 28, 2025. 

Yamaguchi, S., Kanagaratnam, S., Harley, M., Willinsky, C., Shikako, K., Iyer, S., & Ruiz-Casares, M. Youth collaborative for mental health policymaking. Youth-centered knowledge mobilization: Co-creation of a youth engagement guide in mental health policymaking. IAYMH 2025. Vancouver, BC, March 19-21, 2025.

Ruiz-Casares, M. Mansouri, S., Feng, R.Y., Zamani, N., Iwo, R., Janus, M., Twum-Danso Imoh, A., & Nazif-Muñoz, J.I. Children as Caregivers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Children’s Lives: International Conference on Children and Their Families Using the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS). University of Bristol, Bristol, 2-3 September 2024. [Online]

Poster Presentations

Grajczyk, I. & Ruiz-Casares, M. Reciprocity and Children’s Rights: A Literature Review on Peer and Intergenerational Relationships. DEEP 2024, McGill University, December 10, 2024.

Yamaguchi, S., Kanagaratnam, S., Harley, M., Willinsky, C., Shikako, K., Iyer, S. N., Ruiz-Casares, M., Youth Collaborative for Mental Health Policymaking. (2025). Youth Engagement Guide For Mental Health Policymaking: Made By Youth For Youth. Toronto, ON: Global Child Care & Wellbeing Collective.  (PDF file) https://www.torontomu.ca/content/dam/global-child-care/publications/youth-engagement-guide.pdf

Bentayeb, N., Wang, A., A., Leanza, Y., Gagnon, M.M., Hanley, J., Ruiz-Casares, M. (2023). L’intervention avec interprètes auprès de personnes allophones au Québec pendant la première année de la pandémie de la COVID-19. Available in French & English at: https://sherpa-recherche.com/realisations/publications/intervention-interpretes-personnes-allophones-quebec-pandemie-covid19/ (external link) 

Bentayeb, N., Wang, A., A., Leanza, Y., Gagnon, M.M., Hanley, J., Ruiz-Casares, M. (2023). Health and social services intervention with interpreters in a crisis context. Results from a Scoping Review. Available in French & English at: https://sherpa-recherche.com/realisations/publications/intervention-interpretes-personnes-allophones-quebec-pandemie-covid19/ (external link) 

Le Gall, J., Pontbriand, A., Lapalme, A., Schutz, FF, Leclair-Malette, I-A, Hotom, A., Hernandez, S, Maynard, S., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2022). Portrait de l’utilisation des services de santé et des services sociaux : Perspectives des hommes immigrants. Montreal, QC: Institut Universitaire Sherpa. [also available in English]

Bentayeb, N., Jouego Fotso A. C., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2021). Évaluation développementale de la mise en oeuvre du plan d’action COVID-19 à Côte-des-Neiges : bilan de la démarche. Montreal, QC: Institut Universitaire Sherpa. 

Bentayeb, N., Leclair Mallette, I-A, Ruiz-Casares, M., Guériton, M., Maltais, C., Briand-Lamarche, M. & Leanza, Y. (2020). Linguistic diversity and interpretation in health and social services interventions: A systematic review of reviews. Montreal, QC: Institut Universitaire Sherpa. Available at: https://sherpa-recherche.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Interpretation_ETMISSS_Produit_04-12-2020_Bentayeb%5E0al.pdf

Ruiz-Casares, M., & Kilinc, D. (2021). Legal Age for Leaving Children Unsupervised Across Canada. CWRP Information Sheet #213E. Montreal, QC: Canadian Child Welfare Research Portal. Available at: https://cwrp.ca/publications/legal-age-leaving-children-unsupervised-across-canada-0 (external link) 

Ruiz-Casares, M. & Gentz, S., with Gouin, S. (2021). Children’s Worlds Survey – Khomas Region 2018. Windhoek, Namibia and Montreal, Canada: McGill University and University of Namibia.

Gouin, S., Porteros, C., & Ruiz-Casares, M. (2021) Children's Worlds. Illus. Claudia Porteros. Montreal and Windhoek: Sherpa University Institute, McGill University, and University of Namibia.

Ruiz-Casares, M. & Martin, F. (2020). Introduction: Child Neglect. Better Care Network Newsletter. Available at: https://bettercarenetwork.org/news-updates/newsletter (external link) 

International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership (ICCRP). (2020). Recognising Children’s Rights in Responses to COVID-19. Available at: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/cysrg/2020/04/09/recognise-children-rights-covid-19/ (external link) 

Ruiz-Casares, M. (2020). The AEA Guiding Principles for Evaluators by Mónica Ruiz-Casares. AEA365: A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators, American Evaluation Association. Available at: https://aea365.org/blog/monica-ruiz-casares-on-the-aea-evaluators-ethical-guiding-principles/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aea365+%28AEA365%29 (external link) 

Ruiz-Casares, M. & Rousseau, C. (2019). Raconter son histoire : Un apprentissage pour le jeune migrant et pour la société hôte. Chez moi, Chez toi, Chez nous. Montreal, QC : Centre d’Aide aux Familles Latino-Américaines (CAFLA) & Sherpa University Institute. 

Ruiz-Casares, M. & Gentz, S. (2019) Subjective Wellbeing Among Children in NAMIBIA: Children’s Worlds Country Report. Montreal, Canada; Windhoek, Namibia: McGill University and University of Namibia. 

Ruiz-Casares, M. (2018). YFE TIG Week: Establishing and Maintaining Child and Youth Advisory Committees by Mónica Ruiz-Casares. AEA365: A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators, American Evaluation Association. Available at: https://aea365.org/blog/yfe-tig-week-establishing-and-maintaining-child-and-youth-advisory-committees-by-monica-ruiz-casares/ (external link) 

Ruiz-Casares, M., & Radic, I. (2015). Legal Age for Leaving Children Unsupervised Across Canada. CWRP Information Sheet #144E. Montreal, Quebec: Canadian Child Welfare Research Portal.

Ruiz-Casares, M., Clément-Frenzia, M., & Radic, I. (2015). 60 Millions de Filles: Éduquer pour créer un monde equitable. Rapport final d’évaluation. 60 Millions de Filles et Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. 

Tobis, D., Ruiz-Casares, M., & Alcala Cortes, E. (2015). Evaluación rápida del sistema de asistencia social del Estado de Tabasco, México. Informe Final. Villahermosa, Mexico: Maestral International & Grupo de Economistas y Asociados

Lemieux, G., Ruiz-Casares, M., Rousseau, C., Xenocostas, S., Walsh, S. (2015). Le développement d’une culture et de capacités d’évaluation en contexte de diversité culturelle par l’entremise d’une politique d’évaluation : le cas d’un centre de santé et de services sociaux situé à Montréal. Bulletin SQÉP (Société québecoise d’évaluation de programme), 27(1), p. 3 – 6.

Ruiz-Casares, M. (2015). YFE Week: Mónica Ruiz-Casares on Using Images to Engage Young People in Research & Evaluation Cross-Culturally. AEA365: A Tip-a-Day by and for Evaluators, American Evaluation Association. Available at: http://aea365.org/blog/category/youth-focused-evaluation/ (external link) .