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
Understanding
Transitions Through Methodological Innovations Friday
25th February 2011 at the University of Leicester
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 at the RGS in London, 31 August - 2 September 2011. The overall theme of the conference is 'The Geographical Imagination'.
Details of 2011 GCYF Research Group sponsored sessions
For details of the conference, see the website: www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars/Annual+International+Conference/Call+for+Sessions.htm
Details of 2010 GCYF-RG sponsored sessions
Details of 2009 GCYF-WG sponsored sessions