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Projects

UCL researchers are involved in a wide range of youth-related research projects, including:

• Coastal youth: Exploring the impact of coastal towns on young people’s life chances – contact: Avril Keating
• Growing up in coastal towns: exploring the impact of place on young people’s life chances – contact: Avril Keating
• Being young in Brexit Britain: young people’s attitudes towards and aspirations after the Brexit referendum – contact: Avril Keating and Laila Kadiwal
• The Crisis for Contemporary Youth: Young People, Opportunities and Civic Values (LLAKES website) – contact: Avril Keating and Andy Green
• Becoming Adult – contact: Elaine Chase
• Adolescents Our Future – contact: Russell Viner  

Publications

UCL researchers produce a large of youth-related publications each year. Some recent highlights include:

• Keating, A. (2021). Mobility for Me but Not for Others: The Contradictory Cosmopolitan Practices of Contemporary White British Youth. Sociology
• Chase, E., & Allsopp, J. (2020). Youth Migration and the Politics of Wellbeing: Stories of Life in Transition. Bristol University Press
• Chase, E. (2020). Transitions, capabilities and wellbeing: how Afghan unaccompanied young people experience becoming ‘adult’ in the UK and beyond. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
• Keating, A., & Janmaat, J. G. (2020). Immigrants, inclusion, and the role of hard work: Exploring anti-immigrant attitudes among young people in Britain. The Sociological Review, 68(6), 1212–1228
• Hoskins, B., Leonard, P., & Wilde, R. (2020). How Effective Is Youth Volunteering as an Employment Strategy? A Mixed Methods Study of England. Sociology, 54(4), 763–781
• Schoon, I. (2020). Navigating an Uncertain Labor Market in the UK: The Role of Structure and Agency in the Transition from School to Work. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 688 (1), 77–92
• Anders, J. D., & Dorsett, R. (2017). What young English people do once they reach school-leaving age: A cross-cohort comparison for the last 30 years. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 8 (1), 79–107
• Franceschelli, M., (2016). Identity and Upbringing in South Asian Muslim Families: Insights from Young People and their Parents in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London
• Keating, A. (2016) Are cosmopolitan dispositions learned at home, at school, or through contact with others? Evidence from young people in Europe. Journal of Youth Studies, 19(3), 338–357
• Wilde, R.J. (2016) ‘Plugging Gaps, Taking Action’: Conceptions of Global Citizenship in Gap Year Volunteering. Policy and Practice Development Education Review 23
• Sukarieh, M. & Tannock, S. (2015) Youth Rising? The Politics of Youth in the Global Economy. London: Routledge