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Nicola Ansell is a Reader in Human Geography at Brunel University. Her research interests focus on social and cultural change in the lives of young people in southern Africa, and particularly the impacts of AIDS and education on young peoples lives. She is the author of Children, youth and development (Routledge, 2005) and nearly 50 book chapters and journal articles. She directs an MA programme in Children, Youth and International Development at Brunel, and sits on the editorial boards of Childrens Geographies and the Journal of Geography in Higher Education .
Laura Novo de Azevedo has a background in architecture, planning and urban design. Since 2002 she has been a Lecturer at the Joint Centre for Urban Design at Oxford Brookes University. Before working in the UK she worked in Brazil teaching and consulting in architecture and urbanism, mostly through community participation. Her main research interests focus on understanding peoples perceptions and behaviour for the design and management of places, with a particular interest in children and young people. Laura is also interested in pedagogic research using mobile technologies and daily experiences of built environments to enhance peoples understanding of urban design qualities (see www.urbandesignexperience.com).
John Barker is a geographer based at Brunel University. His teaching and research interests focus on the lives of children and young people. In particular, John has expertise in relation to mobility, play and care, and methodological issues. John works with a variety of organisations and has successfully been awarded grants from government departments, local authorities and the voluntary sector. John has published widely in a variety of internationally renowned journals. He is also the secretary of the Royal Geographical Societys Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group.
Lorraine van Blerk is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Dundee. Her research interests focus on the lives of children, youth and families in East and Southern Africa; particularly young people living in street situations and the impacts of AIDS, poverty and mobility on children and their families over the lifecourse. Lorraine has published over 40 book chapters and journal articles, and is co-editor (with Mike Kesby) of Doing childrens geographies: methodological issues in research with young people (Routledge, 2009). She also sits on the editorial boards of Childrens Geographies and the Open Area Studies Journal .
Gavin Brown has been a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leicester since 2007. Prior to that, he ran a large widening participation project in inner London for many years. His academic work on widening participation and young peoples aspirations is, in part, the result of critical reflections on his experiences in that role. He recently edited a special issue of Childrens Geographies (with Sarah Holloway and Helena Pimlott-Wilson) on the theme of education and aspiration. Gavin has also published widely on sexuality and social movement activism, and co-edited Geographies of sexualities: theory, practices and politics (Ashgate, 2007).
Isabel Cartwright is a Senior Lecturer in the Youth and Community Division at De Montfort University. Her teaching and research interests include informal education (particularly in formal and contested spaces), work with young women, and exploring notions of identity in relation to young peoples development. She is a professionally qualified youth worker and has been involved in managing a range of global youth projects for international non-governmental organisations, focusing on peace education and work with young people from conflict areas. Isabel has also managed youth projects in secondary schools in the London Boroughs of Newham and Hackney, specialising in initiatives to engage those young people at risk of exclusion.
Derek Colquhoun was the first Professor of Urban Learning in the UK. He is also Director of Research for the Faculty of Education, University of Hull. Before joining the University of Hull, Derek was an Associate Professor of Health Promotion in Australia. His main research interest is in healthy school communities including policy, curriculum, professional practice and the health of children and adults in these school communities. Derek has published widely and has also managed major research and evaluation projects in school communities in Australia and the UK. His current research interests centre on Health Promoting Schools, social capital, resilience and connectedness.
Alexandra Cox is a doctoral student in Criminology at the University of Cambridge, where she is also a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Prior to attending Cambridge, she worked as a social worker in the criminal justice system in New York City and as a policy analyst and researcher about Americas war on drugs. She is currently a Soros Justice Fellow conducting research about the dynamics of resistance to juvenile justice reform in an American state.
