Researching Young People′s Lives: An Introduction
PART ONE: THE CONTEXT OF YOUTH RESEARCH
Ethical Practice in Youth Research
Researching Across Difference
Involving Young People in Research
PART TWO: METHODS FOR YOUTH RESEARCH
Qualitative Interviewing
Ethnographic Approaches
Visual Methods
Surveys
Using Secondary Data
Using the Internet for Youth Research
Appendix: A Compendium of Web-based Resources for Youth Researchers
Rachel Brooks is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Sociology
Department at the University of Surrey in the UK and co-editor of
Sociological Research Online. She has carried out a wide range of
research projects on different aspects of education, with a
particular focus on higher education and lifelong learning. Most
recently, her research has focussed on: international student
mobility; the funding of higher education; and a cross-national
comparison of the experiences of university students with parental
responsibilities. Rachel also has a strong interest in research
methods. She co-authored Researching Young People’s Lives (Sage,
2009), and co-edited Negotiating Ethical Dilemmas in Youth Research
(Routledge, 2013) with Kitty te Riele.
Prof. Elizabeth Cleaver is Professor of Learning and Teaching at
the University of the West of England, UK (UWE) where she has built
and leads the University’s Academic Practice Directorate: the
central hub for the support, development and enhancement of
academic programmes and practice. Over a career spanning 23 years
she has taught, written and researched in sociology and education.
Her early academic career was in the discipline of sociology where
she specialised in the area of youth transitions to adulthood
(early works are published in name Kenyon). It was during this
period that her interest in disciplinary teaching approaches, and
the importance of not just thinking and researching sociologically,
but teaching sociologically, began to grow. Following a six-year
spell outside the HE sector, undertaking local and
government-funded policy research and evaluations at NFER, she
returned to higher education in 2008. This most recent stage of
Elizabeth’s career has focused on providing strategic leadership
for curricular and pedagogic development and change in a range of
contrasting higher education institutions. Elizabeth is a
Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Eleanor is a Research Director in the Children and Young People
group at NatCen. She has worked at NatCen for four years and
works on both qualitative and quantitative projects. Her
research areas at NatCen include parental separation and child
support, and anti-social behaviour. Prior to NatCen she
worked at the National Foundation for Educational Research where
she carried out qualitative and quantitative research with
children, young people and adults in a range of policy areas.
The book is accessible, showcases a good range of methods and
engages with a number of contemporary methodological debates and
developments
British Journal of Sociology of Education The chapters included in
the book are thoughtful and engaging, employing accessible
language, useful (and not overbearing) suggestions for further
reading, and well-selected examples from previously published works
which are woven throughout the text to illustrate the
discussion
Children′s Geographies
[Researching Young People′s Lives] has integrity and remains
accessible to those without extensive experience of research in
this field. It is a text that strikes a good balance between
context and methods. As it is authored rather than edited, the book
has a noticeable narrative spine which follows through each
chapter. Few books of this kind, of high academic rigour and aimed
at an academic audience, manage to integrate accounts of research
in practice which give a personal and meaningful overview of
methods. This book therefore makes a strong contribution to theb
field; written in anaccessible and open style with much to offer to
those with an interest in the study of young people’s lives
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