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Contemporary Social Science: Investigating Youth in Challenging and Troubled Contexts
Deadline: 5 December 2016 Guest Editors: Charalambos Tsekeris and Lily Stylianoudi In recent years, many social scientists have explored young people’s lives and transitions, considering such matters as social exclusion, disempowerment and disenchantment, as well as promoting effective interventions, strategies and innovations through policy. These have taken account of issues of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability,…
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FeesMustFall: Student Revolt, Decolonisation and Governance in South Africa
Susan Booysen (ed.) EAN: 978-1-86814-985-8 (978-1-86814-987-2; 978-1-86814-986-5) Wits University Press, 2016 FeesMustFall: Student Revolt, Decolonisation and Governance in South Africa dissects the influence of the days of the 2015 student that shook the government and would be repeated in 2016. The book’s reflections represent a snapshot in time, reflecting on a segment of the overall…
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Understanding Social Justice in Rural Education
Hernán Cuervo ISBN 978-1-137-50515-6 – 978-1-137-50514-9 Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 “With a level of breadth and depth that is rare in educational research, Cuervo insightfully weaves together three bodies of literature—namely, rural schooling, neoliberalism and education, and social justice—to foreground this important new study about the state’s neglect of rural schooling in Australia. Scholars and…
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‘Global Youth Futures: Perspectives and Prospects’
ESA RN 30 ‘Youth and Generation’ Midterm Conference 2017, in association with ISA RC 34 ‘Sociology of Youth’ 15-18 January 2017, in Ericeira (near Lisbon), Portugal Call for Papers Global events of the last few years have raised serious concerns about young people’s futures. The international financial crisis and the dominant response to…
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“Make an impact through research” – Recruitment of PhD Students
The Centre for Education, Training and Work in the Asian Century (CETWAC) in the School of Education is pleased to announce the opportunity to complete a higher degree by research and work with world class supervisors. This opportunity is for 2017 enrolments, with a closing date for applications of October 31, 2016 .Successful applicants will…
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12 Doctoral Student Positions
Doing Transitions Collaborative DFG-funded Research Training Group at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main and Eberhard Karls University Tübingen The research training group focuses on the question how transitions in the life course are shaped and produced. Transition research so far has dealt with structural factors of transitions and their effects on individual agency and life…
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10 Positions for Early-Stage Researchers
The Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) invites applications to its PhD program BIGSSS-departs (doctoral education in partnerships). It is part of the COFUND scheme funded by the European Commission under the Framework for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020. BIGSSS is an international Social Science inter-university graduate school, located at the University of…
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XV Annual Conference of Youth Studies
. . Global Responsibility in Youth Research Helsinki, Finland 7-8 November 2016 The Finnish Youth Research Network (FYRN) invites proposals for the Annual Conference of Youth Studies 2016: Global Responsibility in Youth Research. There are more young people than ever before in the world. According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) there are 1.8…
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PhD scholarship opportunity @ unimelb
Melbourne Graduate School of Education and YRC social media space PhD scholarship opportunity to study with the Life Patterns team from January 2017. The successful applicant will be working in the Life Patterns project. The Life Patterns project is a two-decade longitudinal panel study that in this period (2016-2020) seeks to: 1.extend current policy…
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Pictures from the “Third ISA Forum of Sociology”
Some pictures from the “Third ISA Forum of Sociology” held in Vienna from 10 to 14 July 2016 have been uploaded in the Photo Gallery: click here to see the pictures.