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The Manchester Centre for Youth Studies and the Centre for Children, Young people and Community, at the Manchester Metropolitan University,
invite you to a public lecture by Anna Hickey-Moody, University of Sydney, followed by a launch of Professor Melanie Tebbutt’s new book, ‘Making Youth: A History of Youth in Modern Britain, Palgrave.
Anna Hickey Moody is currently a lecturer in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She will deliver
a lecture reflecting on a study with over 200 young people who have precarious relationships to education and are not currently attending school. The young people in this study belong to a range of socially marginalized demographics across Australia. Largely
excluded from educational futures, young people with tenuous relationships to schooling remain an enduring problem for social inclusion agendas. The empirical study which is the focus of this talk, sets out to understand exactly what young people with precarious
relationships to education know about further education and how they come to acquire these knowledges.
Melanie Tebbutt is Professor of History at MMU. She has written extensively on the history of childhood and youth; gender and working-class
masculinities; sense of place and regional identities; landscape and the outdoor movement and working-class communities. Professor Tebbutt’s new book,
Making Youth: A History of Youth in Modern Britain, Palgrave, explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Highlighting both change and striking continuity, Melanie Tebbutt traces the origins and development of key themes and debates in the history of modern British youth. Current issues such as the ageing of western societies, high levels of youth unemployment
and the potential for social and political unrest make this a timely study.
Please join us on 18th July 2016 from 5pm-7.30pm in the Benzie Building 403, BZ403, followed by a drinks reception at the Benzie
Roof Garden.
Please sign up using the Eventbrite link below.
If you require further details, please contact:
Hannah Smithson:
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Dr Hannah Smithson-
Reader in Criminology
Dept of Sociology, Room 419 Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamond Street West, Manchester, M15 6LL
Tel: +44 (0)161 247 3442
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