S. Heath & C. Walker 
Innovations in Youth Research [PDF ebook] 

List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Innovations in Youth Research: An Introduction; S.Heath & C.Walker Unravelling Attachments to Extreme Metal Music with ‘Music Elicitation’; N.Allett Meaningful Meanderings: Using Mobile Methods to Research Young People’s Everyday Lives; N.Ross, E.Renold, S.Holland & A.Hillman The Use of Mental Maps in Youth Research: Some Evidence from Research Exploring Young People’s Awareness of and Attachment to Place; R.White & A.Green Making Sense of Mixed Method Narratives: Young People’s Identities, Life-Plans, and Time Orientations; A.Bagnoli Involving Young People as Peer Researchers in Research on Community Relations in Northern Ireland; D.Schubotz Multiple Facets of People and Place: Exploring Youth Identity and Aspirations in Madurai, South India; A.Brown & S.Powell Using Video in a Participatory, Multi-Method Project on Young People’s Everyday Lives in Rural East Germany: A Critical Reflection; N.Schaefer Young People and Policy Research: Methodological Challenges in CYP-led Research; D.Sharpe Youth Research in Web 2.0: A Case Study in Blog Analysis; H.Snee Public Profiles, Private Parties: Digital Ethnography, Ethics and Research in the Context of Web 2.0; Y.Morey , A.Bengry-Howell & C.Griffin Positionality and Difference in Cross-Cultural Youth Research: Being ‘Other’ in the Former Soviet Union; C.Walker Double Reflexivity: The Politics of Friendship, Fieldwork and Representation within Ethnographic Studies of Young People; S.Blackman & G.Commane Conclusion; S.Heath & C.Walker References Index

NICOLA ALLETT Research Associate at the Department of Social Science, Loughborough University, UK ANNA BAGNOLI Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, based at the Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group of the Department of Psychiatry, UK ANDREW BENGRY-HOWELL Research Fellow at the Hub of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods, based at the University of Southampton, UK SHANE BLACKMAN Reader in Cultural Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK AMANDA BROWN Postgraduate Research student at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK GEMMA RUTH COMMANE Researcher at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK ANNE E. GREEN Professorial Fellow at the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick, UK CHRISTINE GRIFFIN Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Bath, UK ALEXANDRA HILLMAN Research Fellow at Cardiff University, UK SALLY HOLLAND Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Cardiff University, UK YVETTE MOREY Research Fellow at the Bristol Social Marketing Centre at the University of the West of England, UK SUZANNE POWELL Senior Research Assistant at Northumbria University, UK NICOLA ROSS Researcher affiliated to the Glasgow School of Social Work at the University of Strathclyde, UK EMMA RENOLD Reader at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK NADINE SCHAFER Lecturer in the Sociology of Youth at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Exeter, UK DARRENSHARPE Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Childhood and Youth Research Institute at Anglia Ruskin University, UK DIRK SCHUBOTZ Research Fellow with ARK, a joint initiative between the University of Ulster and Queen’s University Belfast, UK, where he is based in the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work HELENE SNEE Temporary Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK RICHARD J. WHITE Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography at the Faculty of Development and Society, Sheffield Hallam University, UK