Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group
Events:
1) Workshop Series
The series of workshops are targeted principally at emerging researchers exploring geographies of young people. Participants are invited who are graduate researchers, early career academics, or more experienced researchers who are considering, or have recently begun to, explore the lives and experiences of young people. The workshops are designed to provide informal and supportive forums for the exchange of ideas and networking between emerging and established researchers in the field of geographies of children and young people.
Details of Workshop 1 Friday 16 February 2007 at the RGS
Details of Workshop 2 Friday 18th May 2007 at the Geography Department, Swansea University
Details of Workshop 3 Monday 12th November 2007 at the RGS
Details of Workshop 4 Friday 16th May 2008 at the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University
Details of Workshop 5 Thursday 26th February 2009 at the Institute for Learning, University of Hull
For further details about the workshops, contact the Workshop Officer: Naomi Bushin, University College Cork (n.bushin@ucc.ie)
2) Second International Conference on Geographies of Children, Youth and Families
'Diverse childhoods in international contexts: gender and other social and cultural differences'
16-18 July 2009 at the Department of Geography, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
For further details about the conference, contact Louise Holt, University of Reading (l.holt@reading.ac.uk)
Details of First International Conference: ‘Disentangling the socio-spatial contexts of young people and/or their families’
3) RGS-IBG Annual Conference
This year's Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual International Conference will be held in Manchester, 26-28 August 2008. The overall theme of the conference is 'Geography, Knowledge and Society'. The GCYF-WG plans to sponsor the following sessions:
Children and young people's health geographies: new perspectives, approaches and admissible knowledges co-sponsored with Geography of Health Research Group
Children and young people as knowledge producers co-sponsored with Developing Areas Research Group
Life going on and on: time, embodiment, ageing co-sponsored with Social and Cultural Geography Research Group
Young
People’s Im/Mobile Geographies: Negotiating Urban Spaces
co-sponsored with Urban Geography Research Group
For further details about the conference, go to http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/