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15.12.2016
A one-day conference for youth researchers, policymakers and practitioners sponsored by the University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science and the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships
On April 21, 2017 the University of Edinburgh’s Childhood and Youth Studies Network and the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships will be holding a free, one-day conference for youth researchers, policymakers and practitioners. Young People’s Transitions: Dimensions, Difficulties and Diversity seeks to explore, illuminate and interrogate the complexity of young people’s lives today and ask questions relating to the myriad factors that shape the youth phase.
Studies of young people making life transitions across the youth period (age 10 to 24) give us a deeper and more nuanced understanding of how different aspects of young people’s lives interpenetrate – in employment, health, family, peer relationships, media, housing, culture, poverty, disadvantage and more. This area of research is nothing if not multidimensional and multidisciplinary, so we seek presenters and participants that encompass diverse viewpoints from the academic, policy and practice communities that engage with young people. Conference presentations will be given by PhD or early-career researchers from a variety of disciplines. (See Call for Abstracts)
Our two renowned keynote speakers for the event are Divya Jindal-Snape, Professor of Education, Inclusion and Life Transitions, University of Dundee and Andy Furlong, Professor of Social Inclusion and Education, University of Glasgow.
The conference themes are:
Inequality and Its Impacts
- How does inequality manifest itself in the multiple transitions of young people, and what are the impacts?
This stream will showcase research that deals with the issue of inequality (whether social, economic, physical, mental, spatial, racial, gender and sexuality) and the differing ways it impacts young people as they age.
Who or What is in Control
- How do the structural determinants of society interact with the agency of young people as they make transitions in this life stage?
This stream will showcase research that engages with the structural determinants of society (i.e. class, race, gender, education, locality, disability, the state) and young people’s agency, including the extent to which young people feel they have control and choice in making ‘successful’ transitions.
Abstract deadline: 13 February 2017