Research group: Manchester Centre for Youth Studies (MCYS)
Giving young people the chance to be heard on the issues and decisions that affect their lives.
Summary
About our research
We work to ensure that young people from all backgrounds have a say in the decisions and issues that affect them.
Our world-leading and award-winning research lets young people contribute to studies in ways that suit them, such as through sport, film-making, photography and digital storytelling.
We have a particular interest in getting views and insights from seldom-heard children and young people. These include, for example, justice-involved children, young people from refugee backgrounds, and looked after children.
And we use the skills of our academics and practitioners across a range of disciplines, including sociology, history, criminology and linguistics, to help bring about real change for young people.
MCYS works with public, private and voluntary organisations across the UK including the Home Office, the British Muslim Heritage Centre and Comic Relief.
Our reputation for excellence has forged partnerships with universities across the world from Australia to Bangladesh.
Selected projects
Publications
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Selected publications
- Bellamy, J and Horner, K (2019) Ideological tensions in youth discourses on language and identity in multilingual Luxembourg, Sociolinguistic Studies, 12(3-4), pp 323-43
- Bowman, B (2020) They don’t quite understand the importance of what we’re doing today: the young people’s climate strikes as subaltern activism Sustainable Earth, 3(1)
- Cromwell, J (2020) From Village to Monastery: Finding Children in the Coptic Record from Egypt, in Beaumont, LA, Dillon, M and Harrington, N (eds) Children in Antiquity: Perspectives and Experiences of Childhood in the Ancient Mediterranean. Routledge
- Drummond, R (2018) Researching Urban Youth Language and Identity Palgrave Macmillan
- Germaine Buckley, C (2020) Encounters with the Hidden World in Modern Children’s Fiction in Bloom, C (ed) The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic. Palgrave
- Gray, P, Smithson, H. and Jump, D (2021) Serious Youth Violence and its Relationship with Adverse Childhood Experiences Report for Youth Justice Board
- Jump, D (2020) The Criminology of Boxing Desistance and Violence. Policy Press
- Khan, F and Mythen, G (2019) Micro-level Management of Islamophobia: Negotiation, Deflection and Resistance, in Awan, I and Zempi, I (eds) Key Readings in Islamophobia. Palgrave Macmillan
- Larner, S (2018) Understanding how children and young people disclosure sexual abuse: a linguistic analysis of online sexual abuse disclosures to ChildLine. Internal NSPCC Report
- Nunn, C (2020) The participatory arts-based research project as an exceptional sphere of belonging. Qualitative Research
- Pudsey, A (2020) Towards a Global History of Youth in Laes, C and Vuolanto, V (eds) A Cultural History of Youth Volume 1. Bloomsbury Cultural History Series
- Smithson, H, Gray, P and Jones, A (2020) ‘They Really Should Start Listening to You’: The Benefits and Challenges of Co-Producing a Participatory Framework of Youth Justice Practice Youth Justice
- Tebbutt, M (2020) Questioning the rhetoric of British borstal reform in the 1930s, Historical Journal, 63(3), pp 710-731
Partners
Organisations we work with
British Muslim Heritage Centre
The Children's Society
Manchester Museum
Manchester Youth Justice Services
Contact
Contact us
You can contact individual members of the team through their staff profiles.
For general enquiries, please contact our research group leads Prof Hannah Smithson and Dr Paul Gray.