We are very pleased to have this opportunity to introduce ourselves as the new editorial team, and to share with you our vision for the journal over the coming years. We would like to begin by thanking the outgoing editorial team, comprising Janet Boddy, Sara Bragg, Wendy Sims‐Schouten and Rachael Stryker, for their highly skilled leadership in growing and developing the journal and its audience over the last 4 years. We particularly note their willingness to push the boundaries of theoretical developments in childhood studies in their themed section on The Future of Childhood Studies and Children & Society (Stryker et al., 2019). They have left us with big boots to fill.

Our arrival on the journal comes during highly challenging times globally, with the Covid‐19 pandemic, the climate crisis and widening socio‐economic inequalities. A global reckoning with sexual misconduct and racial injustice as witnessed in the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter movements has both challenged and inspired research and activism in raising awareness of the pernicious effects of inequalities. This raises important questions about the relationship between significant events in society and children’s lives: what do these movements teach us about childhood and what does the study of childhood teach us about these movements? Now, more than ever, there is a pressing need to ensure that the voices and lives of children are well represented across research, policy and practice. During these times, we will endeavour to continue the mission of making Children & Society a key resource for practitioners, policy‐makers and scholars seeking an understanding of children and young people in contemporary societies and the issues that affect their lives.

Our editorial team brings together international, interdisciplinary and cross‐generational perspectives on children and childhood studies, comprising: Sarah Crafter and Martin Robb from The Open University, Deevia Bhana from the University of KwaZulu‐Natal, Yuwei Xu from the UCL Institute of Education and Liam Berriman from the University of Sussex. Our interdisciplinary backgrounds cover a range of fields of study, including: cultural studies and digital childhoods (Berriman); gender and sexuality studies (Bhana); critical‐developmental psychology and children’s migration/immigration (Crafter); social care and childhood and youth studies (Robb) and early childhood studies (Xu).

While our primary goal as editors will be to continue to maintain the quality and international reputation of the journal, we would also like to briefly share with you a vision and plan for developing the journal in the coming years. This includes: (1) a commitment to further internationalising and diversifying voices within the journal, and (2) developing new ways of engaging with the journal’s audiences.

(1) Internationalisation and diversification. The study of children and childhood is an international and interdisciplinary field, made up of a global community of scholars. One of the challenges for the study of children and childhood has been the need to dismantle Western centrism, which has resulted in the marginalisation of Global South perspectives. Across a range of disciplines, there has been a growing movement towards decolonisation, with calls for a diversification of voices and an acknowledgement that not all work is recognised equally within the field. As gatekeepers, journals play an important role in determining whose work is represented in a field of study. English‐language journals are among the most cited in the world and are a key means for both native and non‐native English speakers to have their work read by an international audience. The previous editorial team made great strides in improving the international scope of the journal, and one of our priorities will be to build on and extend this work. Our aim is to continue to extend the journal’s coverage beyond Europe, North America and the Anglophone world, to other key regions of the world, such as the Asia‐Pacific, Africa, the Middle East and South America. We will also seek to promote diverse representation of scholarship and knowledge from different parts of the world and especially in underrepresented regions, such as the Global South. As an international team, we are acutely aware of the challenges faced by writers with English as an additional language, and we are committed to exploring how we can continue the work of internationalising and diversifying Children & Society to reflect the global field of study. We will be exploring how we can provide further support to writers from diverse linguistic backgrounds, and we will be actively encouraging special issue proposals on topics that specifically address issues of relevance to underrepresented regions of the world.

(2) New ways of engaging audiences. Children & Society is a unique publication that seeks to speak not only to the academic field of childhood studies but also practitioners and policy makers. The special relationship between the journal and the National Children’s Bureau means that policy reviews continue to be a key part of the journal’s identity, alongside our regular research articles. We will be seeking out a greater range of international and comparative perspectives in the policy section of the journal, whilst ensuring that the policy reviews remain relevant to practitioners and policy‐makers in the UK. The rapid pace of information sharing brought about by digital technologies has created new challenges for journals and other traditional routes to publication. Social media have become a means of rapidly disseminating research findings, while peer‐reviewed articles can take months to reach audiences. In the first months of our tenure as editors we plan to review how our journal engages with readers beyond our existing publication strategy. We still believe that peer‐reviewed articles are the gold standard for academic work. However, we also recognise that this sometimes presents a challenge to our responsivity to rapidly changing events in the lives of children. Our aim is to develop a journal blog where ‘rapid response’ pieces can reach audiences more quickly. These will provide a stepping stone towards fuller peer‐reviewed articles and potential special issues. We are also hoping to revive the journal’s podcasts as a means for authors to share their articles through short interviews with the journal’s editors, which in turn will provide another means for readers to access and engage with the journal.

We would like to conclude by thanking you, the readers, reviewers, authors and Editorial Board members of Children and Society, for your work in supporting the journal’s ongoing success. We remain committed to the fundamental position of the National Children’s Bureau (NCB) upon which this journal was founded, and that is to remain faithful to understanding the rich, complex and changing relationships between children and society. We hope you will join us for this next exciting stage in the life of the journal, and we greatly welcome any feedback you have that can help us to grow and develop the journal going forward.

我们非常高兴有机会借此机会介绍自己成为新的编辑团队，并与您分享我们对未来几年的展望。首先，我们要感谢即将离任的编辑团队，包括Janet Boddy，Sara Bragg，Wendy Sims-Schouten和Rachael Stryker，他们在过去4年中在发展和发展期刊及其读者方面的高超领导能力。我们特别在他们的主题为``童年研究与儿童与社会的未来''（Stryker等人，2019）的主题部分中指出他们愿意突破童年研究理论发展的界限。他们给我们留下了大靴子。

在Covid‐19大流行，气候危机和社会经济不平等现象日益加剧的情况下，我们登上该期刊的时刻正值全球充满挑战的时期。正如#MeToo和#BlackLivesMatter运动所见证的那样，对性行为不端和种族不公的全球关注已经挑战并激发了研究和行动主义，以提高人们对不平等的有害影响的认识。这就提出了有关社会重大事件与儿童生活之间关系的重要问题：这些运动对我们的童年有什么教益，对童年的研究对这些运动有什么教益？现在，比以往任何时候都更加需要确保在研究，政策和实践中充分体现儿童的声音和生活。在这段时间里儿童与社会是从业者，决策者和学者们的重要资源，他们寻求了解当代社会中的儿童和年轻人以及影响他们生活的问题。

我们的编辑团队汇集了有关儿童和儿童研究的国际，跨学科和跨代的观点，包括：开放大学的Sarah Crafter和Martin Robb，夸祖鲁-纳塔尔大学的Deevia Bhana，UCL教育学院的Yuyu Xu和萨塞克斯大学的Liam Berriman。我们的跨学科背景涵盖了多个研究领域，包括：文化研究和数字童年（Berriman）；性别和性研究（加纳）；批判-发展心理学和儿童的迁徙/移民（Crafter）；社会护理以及儿童和青少年研究（Robb）和儿童早期研究（Xu）。

虽然我们作为编辑的主要目标是继续保持该期刊的质量和国际声誉，但我们也想与您简要分享在未来几年中发展该期刊的愿景和计划。这包括：（1）致力于进一步使期刊中的声音国际化和多样化，以及（2）开发与期刊读者互动的新方式。

（1）国际化和多元化。儿童和儿童的研究是一个国际性的跨学科领域，由全球学者组成。研究儿童和童年的挑战之一是需要拆除西方中心主义，这导致了全球南方观点的边缘化。在各个学科中，非殖民化运动都在不断发展，要求声音多样化，并承认并非所有工作都在该领域得到同等认可。作为看门人，期刊在确定谁的工作在研究领域中发挥着重要作用。英语期刊是世界上被引用最多的期刊，它是母语为英语的母语人士和非母语为英语的母语人士使其作品被国际读者阅读的重要手段。先前的编辑团队在扩大该期刊的国际范围方面取得了长足的进步，我们的优先重点之一将是继续和扩展这项工作。我们的目标是继续将期刊的覆盖面扩展到欧洲，北美和英语国家之外，扩展到世界其他主要地区，例如亚太地区，非洲，中东和南美。我们还将寻求促进来自世界不同地区，尤其是在代表性不足的地区（例如，全球南方）的奖学金和知识的多样化代表。作为一个国际团队，我们敏锐地意识到英语作为另一种语言的作家所面临的挑战，我们致力于探索如何继续开展国际化和多元化的工作。我们的优先重点之一将是继续开展和扩展这项工作。我们的目标是继续将期刊的覆盖面扩展到欧洲，北美和英语国家之外，扩展到世界其他主要地区，例如亚太地区，非洲，中东和南美。我们还将寻求促进来自世界不同地区，尤其是在代表性不足的地区（例如，全球南方）的奖学金和知识的多样化代表。作为一个国际团队，我们敏锐地意识到英语作为另一种语言的作家所面临的挑战，并且我们致力于探索如何继续开展国际化和多元化的工作。我们的优先重点之一将是继续开展和扩展这项工作。我们的目标是继续将期刊的覆盖面扩展到欧洲，北美和英语国家之外，扩展到世界其他主要地区，例如亚太地区，非洲，中东和南美。我们还将寻求促进来自世界不同地区，尤其是在代表性不足的地区（例如，全球南方）的奖学金和知识的多样化代表。作为一个国际团队，我们敏锐地意识到英语作为另一种语言的作家所面临的挑战，并且我们致力于探索如何继续开展国际化和多元化的工作。北美和英语国家，以及世界其他主要地区，例如亚太地区，非洲，中东和南美。我们还将寻求促进来自世界不同地区，尤其是在代表性不足的地区（例如，全球南方）的奖学金和知识的多样化代表。作为一个国际团队，我们敏锐地意识到英语作为另一种语言的作家所面临的挑战，并且我们致力于探索如何继续开展国际化和多元化的工作。北美和英语国家，以及世界其他主要地区，例如亚太地区，非洲，中东和南美。我们还将寻求促进来自世界不同地区，尤其是在代表性不足的地区（例如，全球南方）的奖学金和知识的多样化代表。作为一个国际团队，我们敏锐地意识到英语作为另一种语言的作家所面临的挑战，并且我们致力于探索如何继续开展国际化和多元化的工作。儿童与社会，以反映全球研究领域。我们将探索如何为来自不同语言背景的作家提供进一步的支持，并且我们将积极鼓励针对那些专门解决与世界代表性不足的地区有关的主题的特别建议。

（2）吸引观众的新方法。儿童与社会是一本独特的出版物，其目的不仅是要对儿童研究的学术领域，而且还要对从业者和政策制定者发表讲话。该杂志与国家儿童局之间的特殊关系意味着，政策审查与我们的常规研究文章一样，仍然是该杂志身份的重要组成部分。我们将在该期刊的政策版块中寻求更广泛的国际和比较观点，同时确保政策审查与英国的从业人员和政策制定者保持相关。数字技术带来的信息共享迅速发展，给期刊和其他传统出版途径带来了新的挑战。社交媒体已成为迅速传播研究成果的一种手段，而经过同行评审的文章可能需要几个月的时间才能吸引受众。在我们担任编辑的最初几个月中，我们计划回顾我们期刊在现有出版策略之外如何与读者互动。我们仍然认为，经过同行评审的文章是学术工作的黄金标准。但是，我们也认识到，这有时对我们对儿童生活中迅速变化的事件的响应能力提出了挑战。我们的目标是建立一个期刊博客，其中“快速反应”的文章可以更快地吸引受众。这些将为更全面的同行评审文章和潜在的特殊问题奠定基础。我们也希望恢复该期刊的播客，以作为作者通过与该期刊的编辑进行简短访谈来分享其文章的一种方式，

最后，我们要感谢您，《儿童与社会》的读者，审稿人，作者和编辑委员会成员，感谢您为支持该杂志的持续成功所做的努力。我们仍然致力于本期刊建立的国家儿童局（NCB）的基本立场，并且将忠实于理解儿童与社会之间丰富，复杂和不断变化的关系。我们希望您能加入我们，进入期刊生活的下一个激动人心的阶段，我们非常欢迎您提供任何可以帮助我们发展和发展期刊的反馈。