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Geographies of Children, Youth & Families Research Group: PhD and Early Career Researchers Workshop “Understanding Transitions Through Methodological Innovations” Friday 25 February 2011, University of Leicester This day workshop is open to PhD students and early career researchers. Combining paper sessions with practical workshops, our aim is to provide a setting for the discussion of methodological approaches to researching with children, young people and families. The theme of ‘transition’ has emerged as significant in a great many subfields of research with children, young people and families. While, superficially, the physical and emotional development from child to adolescent to adult helps to explain this preoccupation, there are many other senses in which the idea of transition has resonance in people’s lives. For youth, this might involve the move towards closer affiliation with particular subcultures and away from families, for example, or the choices that necessarily have to be made about ones future regarding education or employment – choices that, at present, seem increasingly loaded with anxieties. The notion of transition may be closely associated with adolescence but there are equally many ways in which young children and families experience significant physical relocation and/or personal emotional shifts, from the physical experiences of migration, resettlement and self-incorporation within a new socio-cultural context to the emotional redefinitions of self that can result from embracing parenthood for the first time. Speakers confirmed include: Dr Anoop Nayak (Newcastle University); Dr John Barker (Brunel University); Dr Henrietta O'Connor (University of Leicester); Dr Nicola Ansell (Brunel University), Ivana LaValle (Director of Research, National Children's Bureau), and Jay Hardman (Director, Leicester Children's Trust). The workshop is now open for registrations. In the interests of ensuring productive discussion, places for this workshop are limited to 30 and these will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Please direct email registrations to [log in to unmask] Limited travel bursaries will be available for those without research council or other sponsor support. If you would like to be considered for a travel bursary, please include this request in your registration email. Calls for papers (of around 20 minutes duration) have been issued with the deadline for submission of abstracts of Friday 14th January. Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be emailed to [log in to unmask] Rebecca Collins, PhD candidate Department of Geography University College London [log in to unmask]