Celebrity and Youth Aspirations: end of award event
Date and time
Location
Darwin Room, Hamilton Centre
Brunel University
Kingston Lane
Uxbridge
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Description
On the 11th July 2014, Heather Mendick, Kim Allen and Laura Harvey will host an end of award event to discuss findings from their ESRC funded research project on Celebrity and Young People's classed and gendered aspirations (CelebYouth).
This interactive and participatory event will be an opportunity to share the ideas coming from this two year qualitative research project. Attendees will hear about the research and be invited to engage in discussions about the implications of the research for scholarship across education, sociology and media and cultural studies, and for practitioners working with young people.
We will be serving a vegetarian lunch with plenty of vegan and gluten free food. If you have any other requirements, dietary or otherwise, then please email them to Laura and laura.harvey@brunel.ac.uk and we'll do our best to meet them.
Confirmed discussants include:
Dr Anita Biressi (Reader in Media Cultures, Roehampton University) and Professor Heather Nunn (Professor of Culture and Politics, Roehampton University)
Professor Rob MacDonald (Professor of Sociology/ Deputy Director - Social Futures Institute, Teeside University)
Geeta Ludhra (Lecturer in Education, Brunel University)
Bim Adewunmi (journalist and blogger specialising in popular culture, feminism and race: http://www.yorubagirldancing.com)
Camilla Stanger (teacher and doctoral student at Goldsmiths, University of London)
Justin Hancock (sex educator and youth worker http://bishuk.com )
*More names to follow.
The evening before this event, we'll be hosting a related performance - you can find out more and book for this here: https://celebyouthperformance.eventbrite.co.uk
You can find information on accommodation at Brunel here: http://www.brunelconferenceservices.co.uk/accommodation/
