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| Project title |
Recession,
global threats and young people's anticipated futures
as partners and parents |
| Funding details |
Funded by the ESRC |
| Research
team |
Lynn Jamieson, Sarah
Cunningham Burley, Emma Rawlins |
| Dates |
April 2010 - Oct
2011 |
| Type of project |
Knowledge exchange
project |
| Keywords |
Children and young people, time
and families / relationships, environment, demographic trends |
| Project
description |
The aim of this project is
to explore whether and how the current economic crisis and sense
of various global threats, for example climate change and security
issues, inform the discourse of childless young people about
the future: specifically how they are thinking about, talking
about and doing or preparing for partnering and parenting.
Through 40 semi-structured interviews with young adults in Further
Education, Higher Education or Employment we will address the
following research questions;
* Is recession intruding into how young people are thinking
about, talking about, imagining, anticipating and
experiencing partnering and parenting, in the context of
the stage they are at in partnering and parenting?
* How does recession intrude into young people’s everyday
experience and conversation about their current
and future lives (e.g. patterns of consumption and
saving; views about migration, mobility and living arrangements
- benefits of staying with parents, living independently
in shared housing, living alone; being a couple;
ideas about what is needed financially to have a child)?
* Does a climate change intrude into young people’s talk
about their current and anticipated future lives
and does a sense of other current or anticipated global threats
intrude into young people’s talk about their current and
anticipated future lives? |
Publications/
dissemination |
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| Contact |
Emma
Rawlins |
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