Experimenting with ‘live methods’
The Connectors Team reflect on our recent exhibition as ‘live methods’ and offer a summary of the work we’ve been doing during 2017
The Connectors Team reflect on our recent exhibition as ‘live methods’ and offer a summary of the work we’ve been doing during 2017
Francesca Vaghi reflects on our Making Connections workshop and explores how idioms can be used for interpretation and analysis of ‘mundane’ everyday life
How do children encounter, experience, and engage with public life? How having things ‘in common’ has influenced our forthcoming exhibition and book
A special issue that Melissa, Vinnarasan and me have edited for Contemporary Social Science,’Political activism across the life course‘ has just been published! The publishing of the issue rounds up a […]
On April 26 this year I had the opportunity to participate and contribute to a workshop on improving responses to child sexual exploitation (CSE) that was organised by the University […]
Dr Vinnarasan Aruldoss explores desire lines, and the analytical threads of understanding ‘emotion’ as an axis point between body and publics/public sphere
Children’s map-making can move beyond representations to critically project desires and critique relationships to life beyond the domestic and private
I started writing this post en route back from Manchester and the British Sociological Association 2017 Annual Conference where the Connectors Study research team attended to present our work. We […]
Exploring the relationship between childhood and public life: Collaborative writing across disciplines, countries, and technologies
Melissa Nolas examines the way that children’s civics and political actions are understood in the media and in the public consciousness
Activism, citizenship, social consciousness and beyond: what are circuits of social action? Dr Nolas explores the what and when of childhood social action
Dr Sevasti-Melissa Nolas explores the importance of relationships in understanding children’s participation