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: JOURNEYSMobilitiesThe Limits of Liminality: Capacities for change and transition among student travellers - V. AmitJourneys to the Street: The complex migration geographies of Ugandan street children - Lorraine YoungMoving in Transition: Northern Ireland youth and geographical mobility - David CairnsPerforming the Global through the Local: Globalisation and individualisation in the spatial practices of young East Germans - Katharin Hörschelmann and Nadine SchäferPlace Mapping with Teenagers: Locating their territories and documenting their experience of the public realm - Penny Travlou, Patsy Eubanks Owens, Catherine Ward Thompson and Lorraine MaxwellMoving Stories: Using mobile methods to explore the everyday lives of young people in public care - Nicola Ross, Emma Renold, Sally Holland and Alexandra HillmanTalk, Technologies and Teenagers: Understanding the school journey using a mixed-methods approach - Marion Walker, Duncan Whyatt, Colin Pooley, Gemma Davies, Paul Coulton and Will BamfordTransitionsCritical Moments: Choice, chance and opportunity in young people′s narratives of transition - Rachel Thomson, Robert Bell, Janet Holland, Sheila Henderson, Sheena McGrellis and Sue SharpeTheory and Method in the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime - David Smith and Susan McVieFractured Transitions: Young adults′ pathways into contemporary labour markets - Harriet Bradley and Ranji DevadasonMissing School: Educational engagement, youth transitions, and social exclusion - Robert Macdonald and Jane MarshDisplaced Masculinities: Chavs, youth and class in the post-industrial city - Anoop NayakThe Secret of Eternal Youth: Identity, risk and learning difficulties - Stephen Baron, Sheila Riddell and Alastair WilsonEmotional Journeys: Young people and transitions to university - Hazel ChristieFutures and Memories Young People′s Time Perspectives: From youth to adulthood - Julia Brannen and Ann NilsenTimespans and Plans Among Young Adults - Michael Anderson, Frank Bechhofer, David McCrone, Lynn Jamieson, Yaojun Li and Robert StewartTo Plan or Not to Plan? Young Adult Future Orientations in Two European Cities - Ranji DevadasonFamily Contexts, Norms and Young People′s Orientations: Researching diversity - Sarah IrwinFrom Ethnography to Life History: Tracing transitions of school students - Tuula Gordon and Elina LahelmaChildren′s Life Paths through Preschool and School: Letting youths talk about their own childhood - theoretical and methodological conclusions - Tullie Torstenson-edThe Best Years of Your Life: Remembering childhood in autobiographical texts - Naomi Rosh WhiteVOLUME TWO: ENGAGEMENTSCitizenship Young People Mobilizing the Language of Citizenship: Struggles for classification and new meaning in an uncertain world - Jacqueline Kennelly and Jo-Anne DillaboughYoung People′s Extra-Curricular Activities: Critical social engagement or something for the CV? - Rachel BrooksLearning Selves and Citizenship: Gender and youth transitions - Tom Hall and Amanda CoffeyBeyond Apathetic or Activist Youth: ′Ordinary′ young people and contemporary forms of participation - Anita Harris, Johanna Wyn and Salem YounesIn Preparation for Adulthood: Exploring civic participation and social trust among young minorities - Diann Cameron KellyAnti-Party Sentiment among Young Adults: Evidence from fourteen West European countries - Elina Kestilä-KekkonenThe Online Citizen-Consumer: Addressing young people′s political consumption through technology - Janelle WardWork 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 LehmannKids Working on Paulista Avenue - Martha Huggins and Sandra RodriguesCaregiver 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′NeillRural Runaways: Rurality and its implications for services to children and young people who run away - Myfanwy Franks and Haridhan GoswamiOut of Work and House and Home: Contested youth in an English homeless hostel - Tom HallResearch ParticipationInvolving Young People as Researchers: Uncovering multiple power relations among youths - Nadine Schäfer and Richard YarwoodStirring Dangerous Waters: Dilemmas for critical participatory research with young people - Audrey Dentith, Lynda Measor and Michael O′MalleyHearing out Children′s Narrative Pathways to Adulthood: Young people as interpreters of their own childhoods in diverging working-class Scottish communities - Beth CrossYoung People′s Constructions of Self: Notes on the Use and Analysis of the Photo-Elicitation Methods - Rosaleen Croghan, Christine Griffin, Janine Hunter and Ann PhoenixBeyond the Standard Interview: The use of graphic elicitation and arts-based methods - Anna BagnoliTuning-in to Teenagers! Using radio phone-in discussions in research with young people - Susie WellerVOLUME THREE: IDENTITIESStructures 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 NayakGrowing Up Bad: Black youth, ′road′ culture and badness in an East London neighbourhood - Anthony GunterFrom the Margins to Mainstream? Representations of British Asian youth musical cultural expression from bhangra to Asian underground music - Rupa HuqSubculture, 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 HalsallMiddle-Class Struggle? Identity?work and leisure among sixth formers in the United Kingdom - Mary Jane Kehily and Rob PattmanBodies and Risk Bodies on the Line: Identity markers among Mexican street youth - Elsa Herrera, Gareth Jones, Sarah Thomas de BenitezGirl Power: Risky sexual behaviour and gender identity amongst young Spanish recreational drug users - Nuria Romo, Jorge Marcos, Ainhoa Rodriguez, Andrés Cabrera and Mariano HernánChallenging Childhoods: Young people′s accounts of ′getting by′ in families with substance abuse problems - Kathryn Backett-Milburn, Sarah Wilson, Angus Bancroft and Sarah Cunningham-BurleyWhen 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 GoldenbergDiets and Discipline: The narratives of practice of university students with type 1 diabetes - Myles BalfePlacesLocal Embeddedness in a Global World: Young people′s accounts - Pat O′ConnorThe Unacceptable Flaneur - Hugh Matthews, Mark Taylor, Barry Percy-Smith and Melanie LimbRisky Bodies at Leisure: Young women negotiating space and place - Eileen Green and Carrie SingletonDoing Consumption and Sitting Cars: Adolescent bodies in suburban commercial spaces - Yuki KatoFeeling the Noise: Teenagers, bedrooms and music - Sian LincolnOnline Journals as Virtual Bedrooms? Young people, identity and personal space - Paul Hodkinson and Sian LincolnThe Difference That Place Makes To Methodology: Uncovering the ′lived space′ of young people′s spatial practices - Jon Anderson and Katie Jones