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 and India. This research was a collaboration between the University of Manchester, BIGD at BRAC University in Bangladesh and Varanasi Hindu University in India.
Helena Pimlott-Wilson is Reader in Geography at Loughborough University, UK. Her research focuses on the shifting importance of education and employment in the reproduction of classed power. Recent work investigates the aspirations of young people from socio-economically diverse areas in the UK, international mobility of students for higher education and work placements, and the alternative and supplementary education industries.
Peter Squires is Emeritus Professor in Criminology and Public Policy at the University of Brighton, UK. Since the early 1990s Peter has helped develop the teaching and research specialism in criminology and criminal justice at the University of Brighton, and his academic work has ranged across a wide range of themes and topics including youth crime and disorder, anti-social behaviour, weapons, crime and violence, gun crime and community safety. Peter has undertaken a great deal of research and consultancy addressing these topics with, among others, Sussex Police, the Metropolitan Police, London boroughs, the European Forum for Urban Safety, the East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service and the Youth Justice Board – as well as with colleagues in other universities.
Carl Walker is a community psychologist based at the University of Brighton, UK. Carl is on the British Psychological Society National Community Psychology section committee. Carl recently co-founded the national group ‘Psychologists against Austerity’ and his recent research involves action research projects on wellbeing drawing on statactivist techniques. Carl’s main research interests include exploring the relations between debt, inequality and mental health and the use of community initiatives to work toward addressing mental health needs.
Andy West is an independent international researcher and development work adviser on childhood and youth, and Visiting Senior Fellow in International Development and Youth Studies at the University of Suffolk, UK. Andy has worked with children and young people and related issues, practices and policies for over 30 years, especially on rights, participation and protection, mainly in Asia and the UK for local, national and international organisations; he has also worked in the