Youth and the New Adulthood / Perspectives on Children and Young People Bd.8 (PDF)

in the School of Social and Political Sciences in the Faculty of Arts. He is currently President of the Australian Sociological Association (TASA) and Vice President for Australia, New Zealand and Oceania of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Youth (RC34) within the International Sociological Association (ISA). He is also co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Youth Studies. Dan's primary research area is the sociology of youth, young adulthood, and generations and he uses this focus to also contribute to the sociology of work, and to sociological theory. His writing conceptualizing generational change and the new social conditions impacting on young adults is internationally recognized. His current research activity is focused on the Life-Patterns Project.









Dr. Hernan Cuervo is an Associate Professor in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and the Deputy Director of the Youth Research Centre, at the University of Melbourne. His research interests focus on youth studies, transitions and the nexus between education and work; the concept of belonging; rurality; and theory of justice in education. Hernan coordinates the Graduate Certificate of Education and lectures in the Master of Teaching and the Master of Education; and at an undergraduate level within the UoM Breadth courses. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Applied Youth Studies. His most recent books are "Understanding Social Justice in Rural Education" (Palgrave, 2016) and "Youth, Inequality and Social Change in the Global South" (Springer, 2019).Professor Carmen Leccardi is Professor of Sociology of Culture at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca. She is the director of the doctoral program in Applied Sociology and Methodology of Social Research. She was Vice Chancellor of Equal Opportunities in the period between 2012 and 2013 and is currently scientific coordinator of the Inter-University Research Center 'Gender Cultures'. From 2013 to 2015 she was President of the European Association of Sociology (ESA). Her research focusses on processes of cultural change. In this context, she carried out national and international research on cultural models, with a particular focus on young people; gender and generational differences; experiences of time and their changes. As for her research methods, Leccardi gives priority to qualitative approaches, and hermeneutical methods in particular.





Jenny Chesters is a Senior Lecturer at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and a Senior Research Fellow on the Life Patterns project at the Youth Research Centre. Her research interests focus on transitions between education and employment throughout the life course and social stratification. She coordinates and teaches the subject 'Professional Capstone Project' in the Master of Education and teaches into 'Education Research Methodology' in the Graduate Certificate of Education and the Master of Teaching. She also delivers guest lectures in various research methodology subjects. Her role in the Life Patterns project is to oversee the collection, management and analysis of the longitudinal quantitative data.