Youth and social justice mini-conference

Dundee University, 1-4pm Wednesday March 3rd

Location: 3G02 LT1Dalhousie Building, Dundee University Campus

Fee: The conference is free to attend and refreshments will be provided

Mini-conference overview:

This exciting multi-disciplinary conference aims to bring together people with an interest in the multiple issues surrounding 'youth and social justice'. It includes papers focussing on the theoretical, conceptual, practical and policy dimensions of this research area and is open to academics, practitioners and students alike. The conference presenters will be discussing work from both the developed and developing world, drawing on their recent research projects. The papers being presented at the conference are outlined below:

• Dr Ruth Evans, Department of Geography, University of Reading Specialist safe spaces for young people on the margins in England? Discourses, practices and identities
• Dr Lorraine van Blerk, School of the Environment , Dundee University 'New' geographies of street life: the impact of spatial governance on Cape Town's street youth
• Dr John Horton, Centre for Children and Youth, University of Northampton 'Sustainable Community' development: emergent geographies, contingent (in)justices
• Dr Leda Blackwood, School of Psychology, St Andrews University, Conference Discussant

We would love you to join in the conference.

For more details about the session or directions to the venue, please contact Donna Marie Brown at d.m.y.brown@dundee.ac.uk