Research
Research in the Centre for Global Youth.
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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.
Contact us
Centre for Global Youth
Department of Education, Practice and Society
IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
University College London
20 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AL
email: globalyouth@ucl.ac.uk