I write a range of things, from journal articles and book chapters to reports for NGOs. I generally write about poverty, youth, participation and policy. Some of my stuff is here.
Vaguely popular press stuff
2016 ‘The National Living Wage makes a bad situation worse for young people‘ Guardian Comment is Free
2016 Thinking Allowed Radio 4 piece on my research around poverty and power
2015 ‘What would it take to get young people interested in politics‘ New Statesman
2015 ‘ISIS wouldn’t be here if there wasn’t Islamophobia: What young British Muslims think about radicalisation‘ the Mirror
Less popular academic bits. I keep a ResearchGate profile if you’re so inclined (with a bunch of full texts)
2017 ‘The Precarious Generation: A political economy of young people‘ Routledge — co-authored with Bessant and Watts.
2016 ‘Youth club is made to get young people off the streets‘ Youth and Policy – co-authored with young people
2016 ‘Writing in a role for structure‘ Journal of Youth Studies
2016 ‘The politics of voice: Research ethics committees and participatory research‘ Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics (I kid you not, that’s a real journal) co-authored with young people
2015 ‘What’s wrong with being poor? The problems of poverty, as young people describe them‘ Children & Society
2015 ‘Low income young people’s problematic relationship with individualised policy‘ Journal of Youth Studies
2015 ‘Co-designing a civics curriculum: young people, democratic deficit and political renewal in the EU‘ Journal of Curriculum Studies
2014 ‘Poverty, Malnutrition and Education in the UK’ in Symaco, L. (ed) Education, Poverty, Malnutrition and Famine Bloomsbury Academic, London
2014 ‘Families of the Poor’ in Scott, F., Treas, J. & Richards, M. (ed) The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families, Blackwell, Oxford
2012 ‘Why Participation? Towards a critique of youth participation’ Youth & Policy 109 pp. 71-9
2011 (with Bessant, J). ‘Presenting Research to Different Audiences’ in Bradford, S. & Cullen, F. (ed) Research and Research Methods for Youth Practitioners Routledge, London pp. 89-106
2010 ‘The Politics of Youthful Antipolitics: representing the “issue” of youth participation in politics’ Journal of Youth Studies 13(2) pp. 181-195
2010 ‘A New Tool for Equality: Evaluating the Impact of the Human Rights Charter for Youth Work’ Australian Journal of Human Rights 16(1) pp. 21-37
Should we say “specialised stuff”, with NGOs
2017 ‘Children’s voices and housing poverty’ Housing Poverty and the Good Society, what can we achieve by 2025? APPG on Poverty
2016 ‘Uncertain transitions, turbulent labour markets and young people’s life chances’ Improving Children’s Life Chances CPAG
2014 The Cost of Going to School: young people’s thoughts NUT/BYC/KidsCo, London
2012 Going Hungry? Young people’s experiences of free school meals CPAG, London
2010 ‘A Crisis in Schooling Affordability?’ Public Policy Research 16 (4) pp. 240 – 245
2010 ‘Child Poverty and Health in London’ London Journal of Primary Care March
