Trained as a sociologist, I draw primarily on critical, feminist and post-structural theorizing to study constructions of childhood and youth, particularly their effects and how they are experienced by children and youth themselves; discrimination against young people, especially as age intersects with gender, sexuality, race, and class; aspects of the sociology of education, including school disciplinary and surveillance practices, and sex education; theories of agency, rebellion, resistance and contestation among young people; and children and youth as participants within families, peer groups, on-line, at work, and more broadly. I have recently completed a project on participatory voice and youth on YouTube and currently I am leading a SSHRC-funded project on young people’s very first jobs (with Wolfgang Lehmann) and another project on children’s perceptions and experiences of the early months of the pandemic.
As well as being a faculty member in CHYS, I am a member of the MA Program in Social Justice and Equity Studies, a member of the MA Program in Sociology, and the Director of the Social Justice Research Institute
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