Back before COVID was a thing, Signe and her colleague David Farrugia (Newcastle University, NSW) initiated an edited collection on young people’s lives beyond global cities. After much delay, it feels amazing to finally say that the book is now sent to the publisher and will be out mid-2022. We think this is an important…
In October 2021 Signe was one of two keynote speakers at the TASA symposium ‘Hope and Empathy in Uncertain Times’. Signe spoke on hope as an orientation to the future and the work required to hope and be hopeful. This talk was based on the research from this project which she is currently writing up…
In June and July 2021 two new journal articles from this project were published. These can be found on the Publications page. The first article focuses on a methodological innovation in relation to ‘interviews with things’ or, more specifically, object-based interviews. This is a method that has so far been used to either explore memory…
On June 22, 2020, Power to Persuade – an online platform with a focus on social policy in the Australian context – published a blog post written by myself and two colleagues, Brendan Churchill and Leah Ruppanner. This blog post discusses the situation for young women in Australia in the context of COVID-19 and as…
Today I completed the fifth and last interview with one of my participants. This means that I have been allowed to follow her, and like her a number of other women, for just around two years of their lives; a real privilege. Of course, as in other longitudinal research, not all my participants have been…
The first empirical analysis of the data from this project has just been published in the Journal of Sociology, in a special issue on ‘Gendered and generational inequalities in the gig economy’. This paper, entitled ‘Making Pathways? A mixed methods analysis of young women who have left school early in ‘the new work order’ is…
In April 2019, Dr David Farrugia (Newcastle University, NSW) and I started working on a proposal for an edited book on the lives of young people living beyond the urban metropolis. This proposal has now been accepted by Bristol University Press and we are excited to work with the 13 contributors on the book. The…
Girls Growing Up 