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Handbook of the Life Course (Vol. 2)
M.J. Shanahan, J. T. Mortimer and M. Kirkpatrick Johnson (Eds) ISBN 978-3-319-20879-4 (hardcover) – 978-3-319-20880-0 (ebook) Springer International Publishing, Switzerland – 2016 Building on the success of the 2003 Handbook of the Life Course, this second volume identifies future directions for life course research and policy. The introductory essay and the chapters that make…
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Call for Applications: Better Evidence for Children and Youth
Deadline for submission: January 15, 2016 The Campbell Collaboration’s Education and Crime & Justice Coordinating Groups and the Jacobs Foundation are pleased to announce grants to support the development and publication of systematic reviews that address important issues in child and youth development. Grants between $25,000 and $50,000 USD are available following this Call…
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Opportunity for publishing book reviews on youth related issues
IJSE – Italian Journal of Sociology of Education is a peer-reviewed academic journal published three times a year (February, June, October) and sponsored by the Educational Section of the Italian Sociological Association (AIS-EDU). The journal aims at presenting up-to-date, state of the art theoretical and empirical studies concerning socialization, education, and educational institutions, enlarging and…
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Life Patterns. Ten years following Generation Y
Jessica Crofts, Hernán Cuervo, Johanna Wyn, Graeme Smith & Dan Woodman ISBN 9780734051844 – 9780734051851 Youth Research Centre, The University of Melbourne – 2015 The Life Patterns research program is designed to follow patterns in young people’s lives over time in order to gain a longitudinal and holistic understanding of the ways in which two…
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PhD Studentships in Demography/Population Studies at the London School of Economics
The Population Studies group at the London School of Economics is now welcoming applications for studentships in Demography/Population Studies for entry in October 2016. Career prospects: Recent graduates from the Demography/Population Studies PhD programme are pursuing academic careers, postdoctoral fellowships, senior consultancy roles, and INGO and government jobs in the UK and overseas. Research environment:…
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Child Poverty in Times of Crisis
Call for Papers Salzburg, 25. & 26. August 2016Keynote speakers: Mario Biggeri (Florence) & Lucinda Platt (LSE)The aim of this conference is threefold: (1) to discuss how different crises (like the recent economic downturn, political instability, natural disasters or (civil) war) affect child poverty; (2) to reveal the consequences such crises have on children living in…
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Exploring Childhood Studies in the Global South
Tuesday 19th – Thursday 21st January 2016 Venue: The University of Sheffield, Conference Room, ICOSS, University of Sheffield 219 Portobello, S1 4DP The ‘Exploring Childhood Studies in the Global South’ project seeks to bring together researchers exploring childhood and children’s lives in diverse contexts in the Global South to engage in theory development using the…
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Stanford CPI New Scholar Grants
The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality seeks to support research that expands our knowledge of key trends in poverty and inequality. Awards will be made to “New Scholars” who will then join one of the CPI’s ten research groups. The deadline for the short proposal is now November 9, 2015. Purpose The…
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Social Justice in Times of Crisis and Hope: Young People, Well-being and the Politics of Education
Wednesday 6th – Friday 8th July 2016RMIT University Europe Carrer de Minerva, 2, 08006 Barcelona, Spain The Centre for Education, Training and Work in the Asian Century (RMIT University, Australia) The Centre for Social Justice and Wellbeing in Education (Lancaster University, UK) The 21st Century has so far been characterised by…
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Position of the D irector of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) and the P rofessorship (W3) for Longitudinal Education Research
In a joint appointment procedure, the University of Bamberg and the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories would like to fill the vacancy, initially limited to a five-year term, of the Position of the Director of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) and the Professorship (W3) for Longitudinal Education Research by April 1, 2017 as…