Studies at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA. She received her PhD in Geography from San Diego State University and University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the socioeconomic lives of children and young people, care ethics, and geographies of education. She has published on topics related to emotional labour and girlhood, children’s work and play, leadership in informal education spaces, popular geopolitics and care, faculty labour, mentoring practices in higher education, college affordability and feminist methodologies.
Carlie Goldsmith is Visiting Research Fellow at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, London, UK. Carlie previously worked as a senior lecturer in criminology for six years before founding the research organisation and consultancy North RTD in 2013. Over her career, Carlie has managed local, regional and national research and evaluation in criminal justice, offending, public health, community engagement, bereavement, financial capability and suicide prevention.
Sarah Marie Hall is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research sits in the broad field of feminist political economy: understanding how socio-economic processes are shaped by gender relations, lived experience and social difference. Recent research projects focus on everyday life and economic change, including empirical work in the context of austerity, Brexit and devolution. She is currently Co-Editor of the international academic journal Area.
John Horton is based in the Faculty of Education and Humanities at the University of Northampton, UK. His research explores the spaces, cultures, politics, playful practices and social-material exclusions of contemporary childhood and youth in diverse international contexts. John is currently one of the editors of the international academic journal Social & Cultural Geography, and previously edited the international academic journal Children’s Geographies. John is also Series Editor of a new major book series on Spaces of Childhood and Youth for Routledge.
Vicky Johnson is Director of Centre for Remote and Rural Communites, Inverness College, University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland. Vicky’s research interests include understanding how marginalised people can be supported as agents of change in rapidly changing environmental, political and cultural contexts. She has developed and published papers on a ‘change-scape’ approach. This supports inclusive, gender sensitive and child and youth centred research that takes into account intergenerational dynamics in communities and their changing landscapes. Vicky’s recent research projects include: ‘Mapping child rights in community driven development’ (Wellspring Philanthropic Foundation); ‘Youth uncertainty rights (YOUR) world research with marginalised youth in Ethiopia and Nepal’ (ESRC-DFID’s Poverty Alleviation Fund); ‘Engaging young children in research’ (across global contexts for the Bernard van Leer Foundation); ‘Youth sexual and reproductive health’, with case studies in Africa, Asia and Latin America (IPPF); ‘Education in informal settlements in Nairobi’ (UN Girls’ Education Initiative). She has also led action research processes funded by local and regional authorities and regenerational programmes across the UK.
Ruth Cheung Judge is a lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK. Her contribution to this volume is based on her PhD research, funded by a ESRC studentship based at University College London. She is currently working on research about young people’s ‘homeland’ educational mobilities within the Nigerian diaspora.
Philip Kelly is Professor in the Department of Geography at York University, Canada. Philip’s recent research has examined the labour market trajectories of Filipino immigrants and their children in Toronto, the transnational linkages forged with communities and families in the Philippines, and the process of socio-economic change in sending areas. Conceptually, Philip’s work addressed the interface between political economy approaches to class and labour markets, and cultural approaches that explore the intersection of class and other bases of identity. Philip’s current research examines the potential of migrant social networks in the development of transnational alternative economic practices between Canada and the Philippines.
Eric Larsson holds a PhD in education from Stockholm University, Sweden. He currently works as a lecturer at the Department of Special Education at Stockholm University. His research interest concerns the intersection between sociology of education and the geography of education. More precisely, it focuses on themes such as educational strategies, elite education and educational markets.
Jonghee Lee-Caldararo is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky, USA and earned her master’s degree at the Ewha Women’s University, South Korea. As a cultural and political geographer, she has explored taken-for-granted urban spaces, including cafés and Mongolian enclaves in Seoul. With her research interest in urban night and everyday politics, she published ‘Buy a cup of coffee, you will get your space’ (forthcoming) and ‘Dark side of the 24-hour society: focusing on night-time part-timers in Seoul’ (co-authored). Her paper ‘Micropolitics of sleepless in Seoul’ won the Student paper award in 2020 from the PGSG, American Association of Geographers. The award-winning paper was modified for her chapter in this book.
Aura Lehtonen is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Northampton, UK. Aura’s primary area of research focuses on dominant narratives, representations and regulation of sexuality within broader cultural, political and economic formations – spanning political sociology, gender and sexuality studies and cultural studies. Her current project explores the limitations and possibilities of sexual politics within austerity and neoliberalism, interrogating the intersections of sexuality and gender with class and racial formations, work and welfare, and the state. She is also interested in pedagogy, with a research focus on feminist and queer pedagogical engagements with narratives and practices of inclusion, resistance, and employability in Higher Education.
Sonja Marzi is LSE Fellow in the Department of Methodology and the Department of International Development, LSE, UK. Sonja’s research is interdisciplinary and focuses on urban issues in Latin America cutting across the fields of international development, urban geography and sociology. Sonja is particularly interested in socio-spatial mobility within urban space and place. Her current and recent research asks questions of how the neighbourhood, a sense of place, issues of societal insecurity, the built environment and urban development interrelate with women’s and young people’s aspirations and social mobility opportunities.
Hao-Che Pei was Chairman of Dong Hwa Campus Credit Union in Taiwan from 2016 to 2019. Now he is a PhD Student in Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton, UK. His research interest is focused on alternative economy practices, based on participatory methods, to explore how marginalised groups, who are excluded due to neoliberal governance, achieve independent living by collective participation and collaboration. His previous study was to explore the possibility of financial independence with college students through participating in campus-based credit union operations, and indeed, to discover how young people cultivate their financial literacy and capacity collectively for responding to youth poverty caused by neoliberal discipline in Taiwan. Now he is carrying out a geographical research project on social enterprises, to explore political, cultural and economic dynamics among actors, including people, institutions and space, and moreover, to know how marginalised groups perform post-capitalist commons for changing subordinate status by social enterprise operations in post-industrial societies.
Heather Piggott is Strategic Lead for Access and Participation at Edge Hill University, UK. Her work includes ensuring the university’s widening participation initiatives that seek equity of opportunity in higher education are strategically planned, research informed and effectively evaluated. Prior to this, Heather worked in local government in a policy and research role to support the creation and implementation of children and young people’s policies and strategies. Heather has a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Manchester, her mixed methods research explored social attitudes, social norms and lived experiences of women in the rural labour markets of Bangladesh
