Identities and Subjectivities

Geographies of children and young people is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline within human geography. There is now a critical mass of established academic work, key names within academia, growing numbers of graduate students and expanding numbers of university level taught courses. There are also professional training programmes at national scales and in international contexts that work specifically with children and young people. In addition to a productive journal of Children’s Geographies, there’s a range of monographs, textbooks and edited collections focusing on children and young people published by all the major academic presses then there is a substantive body of work on younger people within human geography and active authors and researchers working within international contexts to warrant a specific Major Reference Work on children’s and young people’s geographies.The volumes and sections are structured by themes, which then reflect the broader geographical locations of the research.

Dr Nancy Worth is affiliated with the Department of Geography at York University in Toronto, Canada.  Her work has focused on young people’s transitions to adulthood, gendered precarious work and young people’s co-residence with parents.  She is interested in how social categories of difference are bound up with the age and lifecourse, especially around concepts of generation and intergenerationality.  Her work has recently been funded by a Banting Fellowship and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.  More about her currently funded project Gen Y at Home: Well-being, Autonomy and Co-residence with Parents is available at www.genyathome.ca Nancy’s publications include the coedited collections Intergenerational Space and Researching the Lifecourse: Critical Reflections from the Social Sciences. Journal articles include ‘Who we are at work: millennial women, everyday inequalities and insecure work Gender Place & Culture; ‘Feeling precarious: millennial women and work’ Environment & Planning D: Society and Space; ‘Student-focused assessment criteria: thinking through best practice’ Journal of Geography in Higher Education; ‘Experimenting with student-led seminars’ PLANET (Journal of the Higher Education Academy); ‘Visual impairment in the city: young people’s social strategies for independent mobility’ Urban Studies; ‘Making friends and fitting in: a social-relational understanding of disability at school’ Social & Cultural Geography; Evaluating lifemaps as a versatile method for lifecourse geographies’ Area; ‘Understanding youth transition as becoming: identity, time and futurity’ Geoforum; ‘Making use of audio diaries in research with young people: examining narrative, participation and audience’ Sociological Research Online; ‘The significance of the personal within disability geography’ Area. Book chapters include ‘Youth, relationality, and space: conceptual resources for Youth Studies from Critical Human Geography’ for Springer’s Handbook of Youth Studies and ‘Age identity and the geographies of children and young people’ (this volume).  She sits on the editorial board for Children’s Geographies and is on the American Association of Geographers’ Enhancing Diversity Committee.Dr. Claire Dwyer has been based at the department of geography, University College London, since 1995. She is a reader in social and cultural geography and Co-Director of the Migration Research Unit at UCL. She teaches social and cultural geography at all levels and is the course director of the Msc Global Migration.  Claire’s main research interests are in the geographies of faith, migration and multiculturalism. She is currently leading an AHRC-funded research project Making Suburban Faith, which runs from 2015-2019, and explores the changing geographies of suburban faith in West London. This continues work undertaken in Vancouver (funded by Metropolis Canada and conducted with Professor David Ley and Dr Justin Tse) exploring the role of faith and