Book Chapters

Access scholarly book chapters written about the Life Patterns project.

2025

Wyn, J. (2025). Youth sociology. In R. K. Sidhu, Y. Cheng, & J. L. Waters (Eds.), Elgar encyclopedia of the sociology of education (pp. 342–345). Edward Elgar Publishing.


2024

Cook, J. (2024). Conclusion: voices from longitudinal research. In J. Cook, Q. Maire, & J. Wyn (Eds.), Longitudinal methods in youth research: perspectives on children and young people (pp. 229-234). Springer.

Cook, J., Cahill, H., & Fu, J. (2024). Working with creative and dialogic methods in longitudinal research. In J. Cook, Q. Maire, & J. Wyn (Eds.), Longitudinal methods in youth research: perspectives on children and young people (pp. 115-130). Springer.

Cook, J., Maire, Q., & Wyn, J. (2024). Understanding young lives across time and space. In J. Cook, Q. Maire, & J. Wyn (Eds). Longitudinal methods in youth research: perspectives on children and young people (pp. 1-7). Springer.

Cuervo, H. (2024). Researching relationships between rural education, space and social justice. In Oxford research encyclopedia of education. Oxford University Press.

Cuervo, H., & McPherson, C. (2024). The usefulness of the concept of belonging in youth transitions. In J. Chesters (Ed.), Research handbook on transitions into adulthood (pp. 55–66). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Farrugia, D., Woodman, D., & Leccardi, C. (2024). ‘Time, space and place – dimensions of childhood and youth’. In J. Wyn, H. Cahill, & H. Cuervo (Eds.), Handbook of childhood and youth studies (2nd ed.) (pp. 651-664). Springer.

Maire, Q. (2024). Conclusion: analysis and ethics in longitudinal research. In J. Cook, Q. Maire, & J. Wyn (Eds.), Longitudinal methods in youth research: understanding young lives across time and space (pp. 187-194). Springer Nature Singapore.

Maire, Q. (2024). Youth, work, and inequality in credentialed societies. In J. Wyn, H. Cahill, & H. Cuervo (Eds.), Handbook of children and youth studies (pp. 633–648). Springer Nature Singapore.

Maire, Q., & Chesters, J. (2024). Understanding change through Australian longitudinal mixed-method multicohort youth research. In J. Cook, J. Wyn, & Q. Maire (Eds.), Longitudinal methods in youth research (pp. 61-72). Springer

Wyn, J., & Fu, J. (2024). A livelihood resilience perspective on generations in transition. In C. Leccardi & J. Chesters (Eds), Handbook of transitions into adulthood in the 21st century (pp. 1-15). Edward Elgar Publishing.


2023

Cuervo, H., & Miranda, A. (2023). Social justice and young people: thinking about distribution, recognition, and participation in youth studies. In J. Wyn, H. Cahill, & H. Cuervo (Eds.), Handbook of children and youth studies (pp. 1-15). Springer.


2022

Cook, J., Cahill, H., & Woodman, D. (2022). Housing and regional rootedness: home ownership beyond the metropolis. In D. Farrugia & S. Ravn (Eds.), Youth beyond the city: thinking from the margins (pp. 175-192). Bristol University Press.

Cook, J., & Woodman, D. (2022). The gendered labour of work–life balance: using a new method to understand an enduring dilemma. In S. Bertolini & B. Poggio (Eds.), Research handbook on work–life balance: emerging issues and methodological challenges (pp. 255-270). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Cuervo, H. (2022). Las Transiciones de los Jóvenes en Tiempos de Pandemia: Aportes a los Estudios de la Juventud desde las Antípodas. In: Santos, A.; Ballesté, E.; Feixa, C. y Sanmartín, A. (Eds.) ¿Hacia una segunda crisis en la juventud? Sociedades juveniles en tiempos de pandemia (pp. 15-42). Centro Reina Sofía sobre Adolescencia y Juventud, Fundación FAD Juventud, Madrid.

Cuervo, H. (2022). Youth transitions. In  A. Welch (Ed.), Education, change and society (pp. 48-77). Oxford University Press.


2021

Cook, J., & Woodman, D. (2021). Digital modes of data collection in mixed-methods longitudinal youth research. In P. Billett, D. Martin, & M. Hart (Eds.), Complexities of researching with young people. Routledge.

Wyn, J. (2021). Youth studies. In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education (pp. 1-11). Oxford University Press.

Wyn, J., & Woodman, D. (2021). A new adulthood: conceptualising transition using a generational framework. In E. A. Marshall & J. E. Symonds (Eds.), Young adult development at the school-to-work transition: international pathways and processes. Oxford University Press.


2020

Cahill, H., & Leccardi, C. (2020). Reframing resilience. In J. Wyn, H. Cahill, D. Woodman, H. Cuervo, C. Leccardi, & J. Chesters (Eds), Youth and the new adulthood: generations of change (pp. 67-81). Springer.

Chesters, J. (2020). The disintegrating education-work nexus. In J. Wyn, H. Cahill, D. Woodman, H. Cuervo, C. Leccardi, & J. Chesters (Eds), Youth and the new adulthood: generations of change (pp. 47-65). Springer.

Chesters, J., Cuervo, H., Cook, J., & Wyn, J. (2020). Generations, issues and priorities. In J. Wyn, H. Cahill, D. Woodman, H. Cuervo, C. Leccardi, & J. Chesters (Eds), Youth and the new adulthood: generations of change (pp. 131-149). Springer.

Cook, J., & Romei, K. (2020). Belonging, place and entrepreneurial selfhood. In J. Wyn, H. Cahill, D. Woodman, H. Cuervo, C. Leccardi, & J. Chesters (Eds), Youth and the new adulthood: generations of change (pp. 83-97). Springer.

Cook, J., & Woodman, D. (2020). Conceptualising youth and future holistically. In J. Wyn, H. Cahill, D. Woodman, H. Cuervo, C. Leccardi, & J. Chesters (Eds), Youth and the new adulthood: generations of change (pp. 115-129). Springer.

Cuervo, C., & Cook, J. (2020). Understanding young lives through longitudinal research design. In J. Wyn, H. Cahill, D. Woodman, H. Cuervo, C. Leccardi, & J. Chesters (Eds), Youth and the new adulthood: generations of change (pp. 13-30). Springer.

Cuervo, H., & Fu, J. (2020). Rethinking family relationships. In J. Wyn, H. Cahill, D. Woodman, H. Cuervo, C. Leccardi, & J. Chesters (Eds), Youth and the new adulthood: generations of change (pp. 99-114). Springer.

Woodman, D. (2020). Social change and generation. In J. Wyn, H. Cahill, D. Woodman, H. Cuervo, C. Leccardi, & J. Chesters (Eds), Youth and the new adulthood: generations of change (pp. 31-46). Springer.

Wyn, J., Cuervo, H., & Cook, J. (2020). Expanding theoretical boundaries from youth transitions to belonging and new materiality. In S. Habib & M. Ward (Eds.), Youth, place and theories of belonging. Routledge.


2018

Giardiello, M., & Cuervo, H. (2018). The formation of a sense of belonging: an analysis of youth lives in Australian and Italian rural communities. In C. Halse (Ed.), Interrogating belonging for young people in schools. Palgrave Macmillan.

Woodman, D., & Wyn, J. (2018). How to support young people in a changing world: the sociology of generations and youth work. In P. Alldred, F. Cullen, K. Edwards, & D. Fusco (Eds.), The Sage handbook of youth work practice. Sage.


2017

Wyn, J. (2017). Educating for late modernity. In A. Furlong (Ed.), Handbook of youth and young adulthood. Routledge.


2016

Cuervo, H. (2016). Rethinking social exclusion and youth in rural places. In T. Skelton, N. Worth, & C. Dwyer (Eds.), Identities and subjectivities. Springer.


2015

Woodman, D., & Wyn, J. (2015). Holding it all together: researching time, culture and belonging after ‘subcultures’. In S. Baker, B. Robards, & B. Buttigieg (Eds.), Youth cultures and subcultures: Australian perspectives. Ashgate Publishing Limited.

Wyn, J., Cuervo, H., & Landstedt, E. (2015). The limits of wellbeing. In J. McLeod & K. Wright (Eds.), Re-thinking youth wellbeing: critical perspectives. Springer.


2014

Wyn, J., & Cuervo, H. (2014). Pain now, rewards later? Young lives cannot be relived. In The Conversation (Ed.), A Year in the Life of Australia. Future Leaders.


2011

Cuervo, H. (2011). The challenges and opportunities of constructing a future for young people in rural communities. In J. Wyn, R. Holdsworth, & S. Beadle (Eds.), For we are young and…? Young people in time of uncertainty. Melbourne University Publishing.

Tyler, D., Cuervo, H., & Wyn, J. (2011). Researching youth transitions. In J. Wyn, R. Holdsworth, & S. Beadle (Eds.), For we are young and…? Young people in time of uncertainty. Melbourne University Publishing.


2010

Cuervo, H., & Wyn, J. (2010). Australian youth transitions. In S. Y. Ahn (Ed.), Transition from youth to adulthood. NYPI.