Judith Bessant
is Professor of Youth Studies and Sociology at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. She publishes in the areas policy, sociology, politics, youth studies, media and history. She is currently working on a book The Great Transformation, Politics, Labour and Learning in the Digital Age, Routledge and 2017. Her most recent books are The Precarious Generation: A Political Economy of Young People, 2017 (Routledge) with Rys Farthing and Rob Watts, and edited an collection, Young People and the Regeneration of Politics Times of Crises 2017, with Sarah Pickard. Judith has also worked for many years with government and Non Government Organizations in a policy advisory capacity.
Rosalyn Black
is Senior Lecturer in Education at Deakin University. Her research interests meet at the intersection of the sociologies of education and youth: she has published widely on young people’s experience of citizenship in precarious contexts and the role of education policy and practice in relation to diverse social inequalities. Her coming co-authored books include Rethinking Youth Citizenship after the Age of Entitlement (Bloomsbury) and Young People in Digital Society: Control Shift (Palgrave Macmillan).
John A. Bourdouvalis
is a PhD candidate in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University. His dissertation involves examining the future of social democracy and progressive social mobilisations since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. John’s research focuses on critiques of neoliberalism, post-Marxism, social democracy and political economy. He is particularly interested in the effects of neoliberal austerity on democracy in Southern Europe after the Global Financial Crisis, and the progressive movements that have emerged in response.
Perri Campbell
is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Swinburne University. She is the author of Digital Selves (Common Ground, 2015) and has published widely in critical youth studies on young women and the Iraq War, and young people’s use of digital media in the Occupy and Black Lives Matter movements. She has been an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University, and Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Perri’s forthcoming book Crisis and Terror in the Age of Anxiety (Palgrave, 2017) explores the challenges facing young people as they carve out a life and future.
is a Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Education, RMIT University. His work explores how young people understand and engage in higher education and work in the context of shifting social, cultural and economic conditions. His recent research has contributed to reforms to higher education admissions policy in Australia and he maintains an active voice in advocating for change in Senior Secondary Certification and the Australian Tertiary Admissions Ranking (ATAR) through scholarly and media channels. Shane is currently working on his first book, Impossible Machines, which traces shifting notions of value and aspirations in higher education.
Madeline Fox
is an Assistant Professor of Children & Youth Studies and Sociology at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She engages in participatory action research with young people to investigate every day experiences of public policy and the overlap between art and participatory knowledge production all towards making social justice claims. Her writing can be found in journals such as Children & Society, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, and in Qualitative Psychology. Maddy co-edited the volume Telling Stories to Change the World: Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Community and Make Social Justice Claims with Rickie Solinger and Kayhan Irani.
Henry A. Giroux
currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department. He is also the Paulo Freire distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy. His most recent books include Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism (Routledge 2015); coauthored with Brad Evans, Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle; (City Lights, 2015), America’s Addiction to Terrorism (Monthly Review Press, 2016) and America at War with Itself (City Lights 2017). Giroux is also a member of Truthout’s Board of Directors and a contributing editor at Tikkun magazine. His web site is www.henryagiroux.com.
Anita Harris
is a Research Professor in the Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University, Australia. Her research areas include youth citizenship, youth cultures, and participatory practice in changing times, with a focus on gender and cultural diversity. She is working on an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship ‘Young People and Social Inclusion in the Multicultural City’, a major project on the civic life of young Muslim Australians, and a new
Lyn Harrison
is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Education at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia. She is the co-author of two books: Working in Jamie’s Kitchen: Salvation, Passion and Young Workers and Smashed! The many meanings of intoxication and drunkenness. She has also co-authored a major monograph Sexuality Education Matters: Preparing pre-service teachers to teach sexuality education. Lyn’s core interests are in Critical Youth Studies, Health and Wellbeing and Sexuality Education. She is in the latter stages of an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage project Engaging Young People in Sexuality Education focusing on student voice.
Michael Hatherell
is a lecturer in Strategic Studies at Deakin University, and is currently seconded to the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies in Canberra, Australia. His research interests include political representation, political leadership and democratic theory, with a particular focus on interpretive approaches. Michael previously completed his PhD at Deakin University, with a thesis focused on Indonesia’s political party system and different understandings of political representation. His recent publications and projects focus on charismatic leadership and populism in Indonesia and the role of local leaders as representatives.
Chris Hickey
is a Professor of Health and Physical Education and Chair of Academic Board at Deakin University, Australia. His research is broadly focused on the ways in which gendered identities are theorised, researched and regulated and the links between identity and issues of social cohesion and exclusion. He has recently been involved in major research projects focusing on educational pathways for marginalized youth, and youth resilience in overcoming social disadvantage. He is the founder and Chief Editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education.
Luke Howie
is in the Politics and International Relations department at the School of Social Sciences, Monash University and Deputy Director of the Global Terrorism Research Centre (GTReC). Luke’s research sits across terrorism studies,
Peter Kelly
is a Professor of Education, and Head of UNESCO UNEVOC in the School of Education, RMIT University. He has published extensively on young people, the practice of youth studies, social theory and globalisation. His books include, Working in Jamie’s Kitchen: Salvation, Passion and Young Workers (2009), The Self as Enterprise: Foucault and the “Spirit” of 21st Century Capitalism (2013), The Moral Geographies of Children, Young People and Food (2014), A Critical Youth Studies for the 21st Century (2015), Young People and the Aesthetics of Health Promotion (2016), and Neo-Liberalism and Austerity: The Moral Economies of Young People’s Health and Well-being (2017).
Giuliana Mandich
is Professor of Sociology at Cagliari University. She is a social theorist who has published extensively on space and time as constitutive dimensions of everyday life and young people. Her recent interest is on the future, both as a specific focus of analysis of youth in contemporary society, and as an essential topic in rethinking social theory today. Her articles are published in journals such as Space and Culture, City and Society, Journal of Youth Studies.
Kerry Montero
is Senior Lecturer and Program Manager in the Bachelor of Social Science (Youth Work) program at RMIT University. Kerry has been teaching in youth work education for over two decades and has an extensive background in youth work, health promotion and health service delivery to young people. A focus of Kerry’s research and practice over the past twenty years has been in the area of young people and road safety education and policy. She is co-author of Young People and the Aesthetics of Health Promotion: Beyond Reason, Rationality and Risk (with Peter Kelly).
Ken Roberts
is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool. He has a long track record in youth research. From 1989 until 2010 he coordinated a series of projects among youth in transforming post-communist countries. His most recent research has been as member of a
Joshua Roose
is the Director of the Institute for Religion, Politics and Society at the Australian Catholic University and a visiting Scholar at the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School (2014-). He is a political sociologist with research interests in political Islam, populism, masculinity, legal pluralism and legal theory. His latest book is Political Islam and Masculinity: Muslim Men in the West (2016).
Emma E. Rowe
is an early-career researcher and lecturer in the School of Education, Deakin University. Emma’s work is published in Journal of Education Policy, Critical Studies in Education and International Studies in Sociology of Education. Emma contributed to the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report (Australia), and the International Handbook on Urban Education. Her monograph is published by Routledge and is entitled, Middle-class school choice in urban spaces: the economics of public schooling and globalized education reform (2017). Emma’s PhD was the recipient of the ‘Outstanding Dissertation Award’ from the American Association of Research in Education, Qualitative Research SIG (2015).
Freg J Stokes
is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, with his research focusing on Guarani Mbyá responses to deforestation in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. For his honours thesis investigation (Political Science, University of Melbourne, 2011), he collaborated with Happy Valley, a youth theatre co-operative in Bhutan. He has written for The Journal of Postcolonial Studies, The Lifted Brow, Overland, Arena, Voiceworks and Crikey. His alter ego Twiggy Palmcock, CEO of Excretum mining, is a close friend and confidante of former prime minister Tony Abbott.
Brett G. Stoudt
PhD is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department with a joint appointment in the Gender Studies Program at John Jay College of Criminal justice as well as the Psychology and Social Welfare Doctoral Programs at
Lucas Walsh
is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Education at Monash University, where he is Professor of Education Policy and Practice, Youth Studies. Lucas has worked in corporate, government and not-for-profit sectors and held four research fellowships. His recent books include “Educating Generation Next: Young People, Teachers and Schooling in Transition” (Palgrave Macmillan) and “Rethinking Youth Citizenship After the Age of Entitlement” with Rosalyn Black (Bloomsbury Academic).
Rob Watts
is Professor of Social Policy in the justice and legal studies program at rmit University. He has wide-ranging interests including social policy, history, social and political theory and criminology. Books include The Foundations of the National Welfare State, Arguing About the Australian Welfare State, Sociology Australia and International Criminology: A Critical Introduction, Talking Policy: Australian Social Policy. More recent books include, States of Violence and the Civilising Process: on criminology and state crime (2016) and Public Universities, Managerialism and the value of the university published in January 2017.