Researching Young People

My research interests are underpinned by a sustained, critical methodological engagement with ethnographic and qualitative research. This includes work on contemporary developments in qualitative data analysis, writing and representation, as well as a focus on of the self and (auto)biography in qualitative inquiry. I have led and been involved in a number of funded projects focussing on qualitative research methods and methodological development. I am currently the Director of the Cardiff Node of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Innovation, Integration and Impact (QUALITI) (2005-8).

VOLUME ONE: JOURNEYS Mobilities The Limits of Liminality: Capacities for change and transition among student travellers - V. Amit Journeys to the Street: The complex migration geographies of Ugandan street children - Lorraine Young Moving in Transition: Northern Ireland youth and geographical mobility - David Cairns Performing the Global through the Local: Globalisation and individualisation in the spatial practices of young East Germans - Katharin Hoerschelmann and Nadine Schaefer Place Mapping with Teenagers: Locating their territories and documenting their experience of the public realm - Penny Travlou, Patsy Eubanks Owens, Catherine Ward Thompson and Lorraine Maxwell Moving Stories: Using mobile methods to explore the everyday lives of young people in public care - Nicola Ross, Emma Renold, Sally Holland and Alexandra Hillman Talk, Technologies and Teenagers: Understanding the school journey using a mixed-methods approach - Marion Walker, Duncan Whyatt, Colin Pooley, Gemma Davies, Paul Coulton and Will Bamford Transitions Critical Moments: Choice, chance and opportunity in young people's narratives of transition - Rachel Thomson, Robert Bell, Janet Holland, Sheila Henderson, Sheena McGrellis and Sue Sharpe Theory and Method in the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime - David Smith and Susan McVie Fractured Transitions: Young adults' pathways into contemporary labour markets - Harriet Bradley and Ranji Devadason Missing School: Educational engagement, youth transitions, and social exclusion - Robert Macdonald and Jane Marsh Displaced Masculinities: Chavs, youth and class in the post-industrial city - Anoop Nayak The Secret of Eternal Youth: Identity, risk and learning difficulties - Stephen Baron, Sheila Riddell and Alastair Wilson Emotional Journeys: Young people and transitions to university - Hazel Christie Futures and Memories Young People's Time Perspectives: From youth to adulthood - Julia Brannen and Ann Nilsen Timespans and Plans Among Young Adults - Michael Anderson, Frank Bechhofer, David McCrone, Lynn Jamieson, Yaojun Li and Robert Stewart To Plan or Not to Plan? Young Adult Future Orientations in Two European Cities - Ranji Devadason Family Contexts, Norms and Young People's Orientations: Researching diversity - Sarah Irwin From Ethnography to Life History: Tracing transitions of school students - Tuula Gordon and Elina Lahelma Children's Life Paths through Preschool and School: Letting youths talk about their own childhood - theoretical and methodological conclusions - Tullie Torstenson-ed The Best Years of Your Life: Remembering childhood in autobiographical texts - Naomi Rosh White VOLUME TWO: ENGAGEMENTS Citizenship Young People Mobilizing the Language of Citizenship: Struggles for classification and new meaning in an uncertain world - Jacqueline Kennelly and Jo-Anne Dillabough Young People's Extra-Curricular Activities: Critical social engagement or something for the CV? - Rachel Brooks Learning Selves and Citizenship: Gender and youth transitions - Tom Hall and Amanda Coffey Beyond Apathetic or Activist Youth: 'Ordinary' young people and contemporary forms of participation - Anita Harris, Johanna Wyn and Salem Younes In Preparation for Adulthood: Exploring civic participation and social trust among young minorities - Diann Cameron Kelly Anti-Party Sentiment among Young Adults: Evidence from fourteen West European countries - Elina Kestilae-Kekkonen The Online Citizen-Consumer: Addressing young people's political consumption through technology - Janelle Ward Work and Welfare Social Exclusion and the Transition from School to Work: The case of young people not in education, employment or training - John Bynner and Samantha Parsons ''I'm Still Scrubbing the Floors': Experiencing youth apprenticeships in Canada and Germany - Wolfgang Lehmann Kids Working on Paulista Avenue - Martha Huggins and Sandra Rodrigues Caregiver or Worker: Young women's contradictory experiences of provisioning - Sandra Tam 'We Had to be There to Make Sure it was What We Wanted': Enabling children's participation in family decision-making through the family group conference - Sally Holland and Sean O'Neill Rural Runaways: Rurality and its implications for services to children and young people who run away - Myfanwy Franks and Haridhan Goswami Out of Work and House and Home: Contested youth in an English homeless hostel - Tom Hall Research Participation Involving Young People as Researchers: Uncovering multiple power relations among youths - Nadine Schaefer and Richard Yarwood Stirring Dangerous Waters: Dilemmas for critical participatory research with young people - Audrey Dentith, Lynda Measor and Michael O'Malley Hearing out Children's Narrative Pathways to Adulthood: Young people as interpreters of their own childhoods in diverging working-class Scottish communities - Beth Cross Young People's Constructions of Self: Notes on the Use and Analysis of the Photo-Elicitation Methods - Rosaleen Croghan, Christine Griffin, Janine Hunter and Ann Phoenix Beyond the Standard Interview: The use of graphic elicitation and arts-based methods - Anna Bagnoli Tuning-in to Teenagers! Using radio phone-in discussions in research with young people - Susie Weller VOLUME THREE: IDENTITIES Structures and Style 'How Other People See You, It's Like Nothing That's Inside': The impact of processes of disidentification and disavowal on young people's subjectivities - Gill Valentine and Deborah Sporton 'Ivory Lives': economic restructuring and the making of whiteness in a post-industrial youth community - Anoop Nayak Growing Up Bad: Black youth, 'road' culture and badness in an East London neighbourhood - Anthony Gunter From the Margins to Mainstream? Representations of British Asian youth musical cultural expression from bhangra to Asian underground music - Rupa Huq Subculture, Style, Chavs and Consumer Capitalism: Towards a critical cultural criminology of youth - Greg Martin 'University's not For Me - I'm A Nike Person': Urban, working-class young people's negotiations of 'style' - Louise Archer, Sumi Hollingworth and Anna Halsall Middle-Class Struggle? Identity?work and leisure among sixth formers in the United Kingdom - Mary Jane Kehily and Rob Pattman Bodies and Risk Bodies on the Line: Identity markers among Mexican street youth - Elsa Herrera, Gareth Jones, Sarah Thomas de Benitez Girl Power: Risky sexual behaviour and gender identity amongst young Spanish recreational drug users - Nuria Romo, Jorge Marcos, Ainhoa Rodriguez, Andres Cabrera and Mariano Hernan Challenging Childhoods: Young people's accounts of 'getting by' in families with substance abuse problems - Kathryn Backett-Milburn, Sarah Wilson, Angus Bancroft and Sarah Cunningham-Burley When Alcohol Acts: An actor-network approach to teenagers, alcohol and parties - Jakob Demant 'Not the Swab!' Young men's experiences of STI testing - Jean Shoveller, Rod Knight, Joy Johnson, John Oliffe and Shira Goldenberg Diets and Discipline: The narratives of practice of university students with type 1 diabetes - Myles Balfe Places Local Embeddedness in a Global World: Young people's accounts - Pat O'Connor The Unacceptable Flaneur - Hugh Matthews, Mark Taylor, Barry Percy-Smith and Melanie Limb Risky Bodies at Leisure: Young women negotiating space and place - Eileen Green and Carrie Singleton Doing Consumption and Sitting Cars: Adolescent bodies in suburban commercial spaces - Yuki Kato Feeling the Noise: Teenagers, bedrooms and music - Sian Lincoln Online Journals as Virtual Bedrooms? Young people, identity and personal space - Paul Hodkinson and Sian Lincoln The Difference That Place Makes To Methodology: Uncovering the 'lived space' of young people's spatial practices - Jon Anderson and Katie Jones