posted by Alita Spink, Schools and Learning Support Officer
Young People’s Transitions: Dimensions, Difficulties and Diversity Multi-Disciplinary Conference University of Edinburgh, 21 April 2017
On April 21, 2017 the University of Edinburgh’s Childhood and Youth Studies Network and the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships will be holding a free, one-day conference for youth researchers, policymakers and practitioners. Young People’s Transitions: Dimensions, Difficulties and Diversity seeks to explore, illuminate and interrogate the complexity of young people’s lives today and ask questions relating to the myriad factors that shape the youth phase.
Keynote speakers for the event include:
- Divya Jindal-Snape, Professor of Education, Inclusion and Life Transitions, University of Dundee speaking on, ‘Multiple and multi-dimensional transitions of young people with additional support needs’;
- Andy Furlong, Professor of Social Inclusion and Education, University of Glasgow speaking on, ‘Young people, work and the new economy: surviving and thriving under precarious conditions’; and
- Naomi Eisenstadt CB, Independent Advisor on Poverty & Inequality to the Scottish Government and Senior Research Fellow at University of Oxford, speaking on ‘Life chances of young people — policy questions’.
The conference themes are:
Inequality and Its Impacts – How does inequality manifest itself in the multiple transitions of young people, and what are the impacts?
Who or What is in Control – How do the structural determinants of society interact with the agency of young people as they make transitions in this life stage?
