Research Articles

2025

Brooks, R., Cook, J., & Woodman, D. (2025). Paradoxical parenting practices and Australian higher education. Sociology, 59(4), 644–662.

Brooks, R., Fu, J., & Maire, Q. (2025). Life satisfaction and work–life balance: The complexities of gender patterning. Sociological Research Online, 30(3), 673–690.

Chesters, J. (2025). The restructuring of social inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. Journal of Social Theory, Empirics Policy and Practice, 30, 8-23.

Cook, J., Woodman, D., & Brooks, R. (2025). How does providing financial and practical support to young adult children impact upon their parents’ present-day lives and future plans? The Sociological Review.

2024

Cuervo, H., Maire, Q., & Wyn, J. (2024). Dynamics of belonging amid geographical immobility: A longitudinal analysis of youth trajectories in rural Australia. Journal of Youth Studies, 27(9), 1274-1290.

Fu, J. (2024). Rethinking education and work relationships in youth transition: an alternative metaphor. Journal of Youth Studies, 27(10), 1510-1527.

Fu, J., & Sideris, M. (2024). Digital disconnection of Australian young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic – practices and enablers. Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 7, 469-486.

Maire, Q., & Cuervo, H. (2024). Mobility and the social differentiation of rural youth in Australia. Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 7, 327–344.

Woodman, D., Maire, Q., & Cook, J. (2024). Who is receiving financial transfers from family during young adulthood in Australia? Journal of Sociology, 60(2), 399-418.

2023

Cuervo, H., Maire, Q., Cook, J., & Wyn, J. (2023). Liminality, COVID‐19 and the long crisis of young adults' employment. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 58(3), 607-623.

2022

Cook, J.,  & Cuervo, H. (2022). Routinized performances of belonging: everyday practices and relationships in rural and regional areas during the pandemic. Population, Space and Place, 28(6), 1-11.

Wyn, J. (2022). Young people’s mental health. Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 5, 167–172.

2021

Cook, J. (2021). Keeping it in the family: understanding the negotiation of intergenerational transfers for entry into homeownership. Housing Studies, 36(8), 1193-1211.

Fu, J., & Cook, J. (2021). Everyday social media use of young Australian adults. Journal of Youth Studies, 24(9), 1234-1250.

2020

Chesters, J. (2020). Preparing for transitions between education and employment in the 21st century. Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 3, 133-151.

Chesters, J., Cuervo, H., & Fu, E. (2020). Re-engagement with education over the life course: motivations and barriers. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 39(2), 154-167.

Cook, J. (2020). Smoothing rough transitions: the extensive role of family assistance in pathways into homeownership. Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 3, 79–93.

Cook, J., & Cuervo, H. (2020). Staying, leaving and returning: rurality and the development of reflexivity and motility. Current Sociology, 68(1), 60-76.

Cook, J., & Woodman, D. (2020). Belonging and the self as enterprise: place, relationships and the formation of occupation‐based identities. Sociologia Ruralis, 60(2), 375-393.

2019

Cahill, H., & Cook, J. (2019). From life-course expectations to societal concerns: seeking young adults' perspectives on generational narratives. YOUNG 28(2), 105-122.

Chesters, J., & Cuervo, H. (2019). Adjusting to the new employment landscape: consequences of precarious employment in Australia. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 30(2), 222-240.

Chesters, J., Smith, J., Cuervo, H., Laughland-Booÿ, J., Wyn, J., Skrbis, Z., & Woodman, D. (2019). Young adulthood in uncertain times: the association between sense of personal control and employment, education, personal relationships and health. Journal of Sociology 55(2), 389-408.

Chesters, J., & Wyn, J. (2019). Chasing rainbows: how many educational qualifications do young people need to acquire meaningful, ongoing work? Journal of Sociology, 55(4), 670-688.

Cook, J., & Cuervo, H. (2019). Agency, futurity and representation: conceptualising hope in recent sociological work. The Sociological Review 67(5), 1102-1117.

Cuervo, H., & Chesters, J. (2019). The [im]possibility of planning a future: how prolonged precarious employment during transitions affects the lives of young Australians. Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work, 29(4), 295-312.

Woodman, D. (2019). Continuity and change in attitudes to job security across two generations of young Australian adults. Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work, 29(3), 273-288.

Woodman, D., & Cook, J. (2019). The new gendered labour of synchronisation: temporal labour in the new world of work. Journal of Sociology 55(4), 762-777.

2018

Cuervo, H., & Cook, J. (2018). Formations of belonging in Australia: the role of nostalgia in experiences of time and place. Population, Space & Place 25(5), 1-17.

2017

Crofts, J., & Coffey, J. (2017). Young women’s negotiations of gender, the body and the labour market in a post-feminist context. Journal of Gender Studies 26(5), 502-516.

Cuervo, H., & Wyn, J. (2017). A longitudinal analysis of belonging: temporal, performative and relational practices by young people in rural Australia. YOUNG 25(3), 219-234.

Wyn, J., Cuervo, H., Crofts, J., & Woodman, D. (2017). Gendered transitions from education to work: the mysterious relationship between the fields of education and work. Journal of Sociology, 53(2), 492-506.

2016

Cuervo, H., & Wyn, J. (2016). An "unspoken" crisis: the "scarring effects" of the complex nexus between education and work on two generations of young Australians. International Journal of Lifelong Education 35(2), 122-135.

Landstedt, E., Coffey, J., Wyn, J., Cuervo, H., & Woodman, D. (2016). The complex relationship between mental health and social conditions in the lives of young Australians mixing work and study. YOUNG, 25(4), 1–20.

2015

Woodman, D., & Wyn, J. (2015). Class, gender and generation matter: using the concept of social generation to study inequality and social change. Journal of Youth Studies, 18(10), 1402-1410.

2014

Cuervo, H., & Wyn J. (2014). Reflections on the use of spatial and relational metaphors in youth studies. Journal of Youth Studies, 17(7), 901-915.

2009

Wyn, J. (2009). The changing context of Australian youth and its implications for social inclusion. Youth Studies Australia, 28(1), 46-50.

2007

Wyn, J., & Woodman, D. (2007). Researching youth in a time of change: a reply to Roberts. Journal of Youth Studies, 10(3), 373-381.

2006

Wyn, J., & Woodman, D. (2006). Generation, youth and social change in Australia. Journal of Youth Studies, 9(5), 495-514.

2000

Wyn, J., & Dwyer, P. (2000). New patterns of youth transition in education. International Social Science Journal, 52(164), 147-159.

1999

Wyn, J., & Dwyer, P. (1999). New directions in research on youth transitions. Journal of Youth Studies, 2(1), 5-21.