Centre for Human Geography (CHG)

The Centre's research activities are focused on geographies of citizenship and exclusion, and in particular on Geographies of Children, Youth and Gender, Environment and Citizenship and Participative and Engaged Learning. Members of the group work together within and across these areas and are engaged in empirical research which aims to generate new knowledge and understanding in relation to:

• The socially and spatially uneven impacts of economic, political, cultural and social processes.
• The construction of discourses of childhood, youth and gender through economic, political, cultural and social processes.
• Citizenship and participation in Western and Third World contexts.
• Development and analysis of participatory research methods.

Research Highlights

• The Centre has secured over £1,000,000 in research funding since 2001 from sponsors including the ESRC, the European Commission, The Leverhulme Trust, Government departments and the British Academy.
  
• Members of the Centre actively contribute to academic, policy and public debates in the field of geographies of children and youth, hosting international conferences, editing special issues of journals, giving keynote addresses and speaking on national media.
  
• The Centre has an active network of national and international associates and visiting researchers from the US, South Asia and Africa.