Identities and Subjectivities

Nancy's publications include the coedited collections Intergenerational Space and Researching the Lifecourse: Critical Reflections from the Social Sciences. Journal articles include 'Who we are at work: millennial women, everyday inequalities and insecure work Gender Place & Culture; 'Feeling precarious: millennial women and work' Environment & Planning D: Society and Space; 'Student-focused assessment criteria: thinking through best practice' Journal of Geography in Higher Education; 'Experimenting with student-led seminars' PLANET (Journal of the Higher Education Academy); 'Visual impairment in the city: young people's social strategies for independent mobility' Urban Studies; 'Making friends and fitting in: a social-relational understanding of disability at school' Social & Cultural Geography; Evaluating lifemaps as a versatile method for lifecourse geographies' Area; 'Understanding youth transition as becoming: identity, time and futurity' Geoforum; 'Making use of audio diaries in research with young people: examining narrative, participation and audience' Sociological Research Online; 'The significance of the personal within disability geography' Area. Book chapters include 'Youth, relationality, andspace: conceptual resources for Youth Studies from Critical Human Geography' for Springer's Handbook of Youth Studies and 'Age identity and the geographies of children and young people' (this volume). She sits on the editorial board for Children's Geographies and is on the American Association of Geographers' Enhancing Diversity Committee.

Dr. Claire Dwyer has been based at the department of geography, University College London, since 1995. She is a reader in social and cultural geography and Co-Director of the Migration Research Unit at UCL. She teaches social and cultural geography at all levels and is the course director of the Msc Global Migration.

Claire's main research interests are in the geographies of faith, migration and multiculturalism. She is currently leading an AHRC-funded research project Making Suburban Faith, which runs from 2015-2019, and explores the changing geographies of suburban faith in West London. This continues workundertaken in Vancouver (funded by Metropolis Canada and conducted with Professor David Ley and Dr Justin Tse) exploring the role of faith and migration in shaping Vancouver's suburban landscapes. Research from these projects has been published in the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Social and Cultural Geography, Journal of Material Religion, Cultural Geography and Built Environment. Claire has longstanding interests in transnationalism and migration and has published widely on the role of commodity culture in shaping transnational spaces including her co-edited book Transnational Spaces (Routledge, 2004, co-edited with Peter Jackson and Phillip Crang). Her research interests in geographies of race and racism and the contemporary geographies of multiculturalism has included research on faith schools, community cohesion policies and the educational attainment of ethnic minority pupils funded most recently by a large grant from the Leverhulme Trust (20