Convenor
Ian McGimpsey is Associate Professor of Education in the Department of Education and Social Justice at the University of Birmingham. His work is concerned with inequality and social justice, and has a conceptual focus on assemblage and the politics of subjectivity. Following ten years’ professional experience in youth services, community organising, and education policy, he researches how policy is made and how it relates to educational provision particularly for marginalised young people.
Young people are the primary constituency of most educational institutions. Questions of socialisation, the transition into economic participation and the duties of citizenship are important...
Continue reading blog postJoin the Youth Studies and Informal Education SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2022 This meeting will be...
The final session of our Researching Youth Seminar Series re-visits Creative Methods. As a growing field in youth research that takes a participatory approach, creative methods privileged other...
The final session of our Researching Youth Seminar Series re-visits Creative Methods. As a growing field in youth research that takes a participatory approach, creative methods privileged other...
Experimentation and playfulness in both method of data production and in write up – there are opportunities, and perhaps a necessity for creativity within methods given the inevitable...
For those Youth Researchers considering, or already undertaking an ethnographic approach, this session will explore differing approaches to ethnography, focusing in particular on the embodied...
This podcast explores music production as a form of youth work and how the benefits have been quantified and reported. Ian McGimpsey speaks to Frances Howard (Nottingham Trent University), Brian...
In this podcast our panel of experts - Tania de St Croix (Kings College London), Sinead McMahon (Limerick Institute of Technology), Bianca Baldridge (University of Madison Wisconsin) and Louise...
