BIG NEWS! The 5th Journal of Youth studies Conference will take place in Porto, May 4 to 6, 2027! Check the link for all relevant details including submissions, registration and keynotes. jys-conference.eventqualia.net/en/2027/home/

Tomorrow (Tues March 17, 2pm) we have Sam Friedman (LSE) presenting on his award winning work on the British elite. The seminar is online and in person at NuSpace (X204).

Please join us online on Wednesday March 11 (tomorrow!) at 3pm for @samfriedman.bsky.social (LSE) and Rose Butler (Deakin) for our next online seminar "Class Diplomacy: Cross-Class Friendship and Social Mobility'

On Wednesday at 2pm we have our NYSC visitor Sam Kirwan from University of Bristol presenting on The Debt Cycle. This will be online and for those in Newcastle please join us in person at X401 in NuSpace.

Tom Leppard and Anna Manzoni's article was on the top 10 highest-scoring Routledge journal articles on Altmetric Explorer as recorded on Altimetric.com in the past week. It was mentioned by 17 news outlets, 1 X user, and one blogger!

SAVE THE DATE! Journal of Youth Studies Conference, University of Porto in May 4-6, 2027.

I'm giving talk at RMIT for the Music Industry Research Collective on Monday October 20 at 3pm on 'What is cultural sociology when culture is platformed and financialised?'

The book also has an open to anyone support site, with support materials, videos and discussion questions. If you would like multiple choice questions to set quizzes for each chapter, please email me. 2/2

It's finally out! After what could only be described as a very long gestation, our edited collection is now available. It will be great for teaching about the concept of subculture and also contains interesting contemporary examples and research case studies. 1/2

Please join us for the second in our NYSC Series Online seminar on Wednesday to hear all about New Possibilities: Young People and Democratic Renewal, featuring Philippa Collin, Judith Bessant, Luigi Di Martino, Rob Watts and Varsha Yajman.

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Navigating transnational familyhood: how Chinese parachuters in the US (re)construct relationships with their parents: Sarah Köksal & Fengshu Liu www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW ISSUE ALERT! Journal of Youth Studies, Volume 28, Issue 5 (2025) www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjys20/2...

As part of ASA, we are promoting our sociology portfolio via the Article Collection Sociology at Times of Crisis. Journal of Youth Studies is part of this collection: think.taylorandfrancis.com/sociology-at... All articles will be Free to view until the end of January.

Editor in Chief ‪@drdanwoodman.bsky.social‬ will be taking part in the Routledge workshop at the American Sociological Association Conference on 'How Publishing Supports the Sociological Community: Insights from Sociologists and Routledge Editors' on Saturday, August 9, 10.00-11.30am.

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! From live-streaming to memes: an exploratory study of the Chinese abstract culture as a structure of feeling among Chinese youth: Suheng Zhu, Zhaoyu Zhu & Thomas William Whyke www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Youth temporalities in identity boxes: own objects as embodiments of past and future transitions: Micol Pizzolati & Alberta Giorgi www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! The journey towards staying: a qualitative study on return-home youths’ empowerment in China: Minmin Luo www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Alice Campbell & Fuchsia Mallinson: Supportive geographic communities protect the mental health of LGBTQ+ youth: evidence from linked Australian data www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tomorrow at 3pm AEST we have our first NYSC online seminar taking place on zoom. The topic is Automating Everyday Life and we are joined by Nicholas Carah and Lauren Hayden, Joel Stern, and Thao Phan and Fabian Offert. You can register at Eventbrite for it here www.eventbrite.com.au/e/automating...

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! NEETs in China: unpacking associated factors from a gender and cumulative perspective: Ling Jiang, Xin Lin, Yuan Hao, Junyan Li & Zhirong Dong www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Imagining a future family: students with care experience Katie Ellis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Gender differences in political interest and participation among politically active youth: Silvia Behrens www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Technology-facilitated sexual violence perpetration as a tool for gender policing in secondary schools Salsabel Almanssori, Laxana Paskaran & Kaitlynn Mendes www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! The obligations and opportunities of ‘friendship as method’ in youth mentoring research: investigating the intersections with youth work epistemologies: Ben Arnold Lohmeyer, Kate Seymour, Tim Corney, Mike Seal, Tiffany Downing & Danika Baker www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Conditions of youth transition: individual and municipal factors related to the NEET rate in Finland: Essi Ahlroth, Markus Laaninen & Mikko Niemelä www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW ISSUE ALERT! Volume 28, Issue 4 (2025) www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjys20/2...

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! The rise of the South Korean alt-right: the ‘silent counter-revolution’ of young men Gi-Woo Roh & Hee-Joon Kim www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! The role of social capital in precarious youth employment transitions. Evidence from Spain: Alejandro González-Heras, Joan Rodríguez-Soler &Joan M. Verd www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Young people’s negotiated solidarity in the context of drug-related crime and violence in Salvador, Brazil: Annika Lehtonen www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Navigating ‘black tax’ and financial interdependence as a young person in South Africa: Mikateko Mathebula & Melanie Walker www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! The culturalisation of everyday life – young democratic citizens’ paradoxical attitudes: Jonas Lieberkind www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! What’s so funny about the European ‘migration crisis’? The use of humour among unaccompanied young migrants and refugees to assert agency and subvert authority in the face of a hostile reception regime: Jennifer Allsopp www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Beyond innocence: the power of young people’s stories in resisting class-based inequality Cameron Greensmith, Adam Davies, Sara Evans, Jalyn Lankford & Seema Steele www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Towards safety: the enablers and barriers that create safety in and around youth work organisations: Joanne Walker, Vanessa Bradbury-Leather & Lauren Wroe www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are pleased to announce our online seminar series taking place in the 2nd half of the year with 6 sessions that cover a wide range of important social issues. You can see full details including abstracts and can book Zoom tickets at our Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.com.au/o/newcastle-...

Discussions with the authors of our 2024 Andy Furlong Prize winner and runner up are now on our JoYS YouTube channel: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Check out our Editorial Board member, Ali Fraser's inspirational new podcast called Young Warriors available at all the usual places you get your podcasts podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Taking back control: a study on young people’s agency to overcome a violent neighbourhood context: Annelieke van Dijk, Mariëtte de Haan & Micha de Winter www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Flora Koliouli, Vassiliki (Lissy) Canellopoulos, Eleni Saraga & Evangelia Galanaki Lived experiences of Greek emerging adults during the COVID-19 lockdowns: a two-timeframe qualitative perspective www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

@youthstudies.bsky.social is pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Andy Furlong Prize for best paper. The winner is: Janice McLaughlin: Bringing disability studies and youth studies together to enhance understandings of youth transitions.

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Jan SKROBANEK: Is the concept of subculture ‘unworkable’ as an analytical tool in youth sociology? a Swiss quantitative perspective on the subculture/post-subculture debate www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Kefyalew Endale, Tassew Woldehanna, Chanie Ejigu, Marta Favara & Sophie von Russdorf: The relationship of armed conflict with education and employment of youth in Ethiopia: evidence from Young Lives Pilot survey www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Ken Roberts: Bleak prospects: youth transitions in twenty-first century Britain www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! ‘We’re not just behind the scenes, we’re visible and upfront.’ Amplifying young carers’ voice using a community development approach in a UK city: Sarah Boath & Martin E. Purcell www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Viable youth futures Jane Dyson, Craig Jeffrey, Amanda Third & Steve Threadgold www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Trapped in the predicament of lacking recognition: Chinese youths’ experiences of hikikomori: Bingjie He www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! ‘Waiting to be called’: rural youth, hope and future-making in South Sulawesi, Indonesia: C. Griffin et al www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! ‘That’s your unrestricted internet access from a young age, dude, not … your gender’: an exploratory study on the complex interconnections between digital media, school life, and gender: Hannah Knipp www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Words are stones: how elite discourse deters the political participation of young people: Marco Giugni & Maria Grasso www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Catherine Hartung, Joel Robert McGregor, Xavier Mills & Stephane Shepherd: Mentoring young people involved in the justice system: unpacking the ‘black box’ of rapport and relationship-building www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....