Innovations in Youth Research

NICOLA ALLETT Research Associate at the Department of Social Science, Loughborough University, UK ANNA BAGNOLI Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, based at the Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group of the Department of Psychiatry, UK ANDREW BENGRY-HOWELL Research Fellow at the Hub of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods, based at the University of Southampton, UK SHANE BLACKMAN Reader in Cultural Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK AMANDA BROWN Postgraduate Research student at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK GEMMA RUTH COMMANE Researcher at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK ANNE E. GREEN Professorial Fellow at the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick, UK CHRISTINE GRIFFIN Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Bath, UK ALEXANDRA HILLMAN Research Fellow at Cardiff University, UK SALLY HOLLAND Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Cardiff University, UK YVETTE MOREY Research Fellow at the Bristol Social Marketing Centre at the University of the West of England, UK SUZANNE POWELL Senior Research Assistant at Northumbria University, UK NICOLA ROSS Researcher affiliated to the Glasgow School of Social Work at the University of Strathclyde, UK EMMA RENOLD Reader at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK NADINE SCHAFER Lecturer in the Sociology of Youth at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Exeter, UK DARREN SHARPE Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Childhood and Youth Research Institute at Anglia Ruskin University, UK DIRK SCHUBOTZ Research Fellow with ARK, a joint initiative between the University of Ulster and Queen's University Belfast, UK, where he is based in the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work HELENE SNEE Temporary Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK RICHARD J. WHITE Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography at the Faculty of Development and Society, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

This book explores and celebrates imaginative and creative approaches to youth research, showcasing a wide range of innovative methods including music elicitation, mental mapping, blog analysis and mobile methods.This book explores and celebrates imaginative and creative approaches to youth research, showcasing a wide range of innovative methods including music elicitation, mental mapping, blog analysis and mobile methods.