Past event Part of series: Researching Youth – Methods Seminar Series
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This fifth session in our Researching Youth Seminar series consists of two one-hour sessions and is geared towards PGRs and ECRs conducting research with young people.
In the first half we will explore the concepts of resilience and adaptability. We will have two short presentations. This is followed by breakout room discussions of attendees’ own research in relation to the concepts of resilience and adaptability.
Janina Suppers
PhD Researcher, University of York
Parinita Shetty
PhD researcher, University of Leeds
The second half will be a roundtable with four speakers at different career stages, who will share their experiences on career transitions. This will be followed by a discussion and another round of breakout rooms to discuss career transitions in relation to the attendees’ own career planning.
Tracy Shildrick
Professor of Inequalities, Newcastle University
Nora Siklodi
Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Portsmouth
Christine Huebner
Lecturer in Quantitative Social Sciences, University of Sheffield
Sophie Atherton
PhD Researcher, University of Manchester
Overall, the main aim of this session is to provide an informal space for PGRs and ECRs to reflect on their practice.
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PhD student at University of York
Janina Suppers is a PhD candidate at the Department of Education at the University of York. Her research focuses on young people’s participation in new citizenship contexts in rural communities and the role of citizenship education. Janina has...
PhD Student at University of Manchester
Sophie Atherton is a PhD candidate in Sociology, supervised by Dr Petra Nordqvist and Professor Sue Heath. Her research investigates the experiences and representation of transgender and non-binary students at secondary school in the UK and...
Professor of Inequalities at Newcastle University
Tracy Shildrick is Professor of Inequalities at Newcastle University. She is currently head of Sociology and Deputy Head of the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology. She has researched and written about young people for many years. She is...
Senior Lecturer in Politics at University of Portsmouth
I am a Senior Lecturer in Politics in the School of Area Studies, History, Politics and Literature at the University of Portsmouth (on research leave) and a Visiting Fellow in the Democracy and Citizenship in Education (DACED) research group at...
Lecturer at University of Sheffield
Christine Huebner is Lecturer in Quantitative Social Sciences at Sheffield Methods Institute, the University of Sheffield. Her research explores how young people want to be engaged in political processes and how they look at things like...
Project Administrator and Postgraduate Project Assistant at University of Leeds
Parinita Shetty has worked with young people and children’s books in India in various ways – as an author, a bookseller in a children’s bookshop, a reading programme developer, and a coordinator of a children’s literature festival. She...
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On 7 June 2022 postgraduates (PGRs) and early career researchers (ECRs) with an interest in youth studies met for a virtual event, facilitated by the youth study groups of three UK organisations:...
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