Childhood & Youth

The Childhood & Youth Research Group began in 2008, launched by Tess Ridge (Department of Social & Policy Sciences) and Christine Griffin (Department of Psychology) as a forum for supportive discussion of critical research involving children and young people.

The group also acts as a focus for networking and building new collaborations with and beyond the University. It includes academic staff and postgraduates as well as practitioners working with children and young people in the local area.

The approach we adopt is child- and youth-centred, prioritising the voices and perspectives of children and young people and taking a broadly critical approach to the constitution of childhood and youth. The group aims to build on the growing number of staff and postgraduate students working in this area across the University.

Policy briefs

Research summaries

Videos

Publications

Riding the Ever-Rolling Stream: Time and the ontology of violent conflict (Brown, 2011)
Displaced Children's Participation in Political Violence: Towards greater understanding of mobilisation (Hart, 2008)
Quality and Early Childhood Education: Lessons from India and Ghana (Chawla-Duggan, 2011)
Reasonable Adjustments for Disabled Pupils : what support do parents want for their child? (Porter, 2013)
The Case for 'Everyday Politics': evaluating neo-tribal theory as a way to understand alternative forms of political participation, using electronic dance music culture as an example (Riley, Griffin, 2010)
Social Work on Trial (Butler, 2011)
What is "New" About Fatherhood? The Social Construction of Fatherhood in France and the UK (Milner, 2011)
Working Lone-Mother Families and their Children (Millar, Ridge, 2011)
Living with Poverty: a review of the literature on children’s and families’ experiences of poverty (Ridge, 2009)
Following Families: working lone-mother families and their children (Ridge, Millar, 2011)
Within School and Beyond the Gate: the complexities of being educationally successful and working class (Ingram, 2011)
The Effect of Childhood Conduct Disorder on Human Capital (Vujic, 2012)
'Every Time I do it I Absolutely Annihilate Myself': loss of (self-)consciousness and loss of memory in young people's drinking narrative (Griffin, 2009)

Forthcoming:

Lone Mothers and Paid Work: the ‘family-work project’ (Millar, Ridge, 2013)