Kathryn McGarry on the European Youth Research Policy Frameworks and Agendas. Presentation at the M.A. EYS Short Course in February 2011.

1. Supported by Current European Youth Research AgendaChallenges and OpportunitiesKathryn McGarry

4. European Commission’s Youth Strategy ‘Investing and Empowering’ (April 2009)

5. Council of Minister’s “Renewed Framework for European Co-operation in the Youth Field (2010-2018)

6. Partnership between Council of Europe and European Commission – EKCYP, Pool of European Youth ResearchersResonance for youth research today: Participation, opportunity, autonomy, mutual solidarity, social inclusion, equality…

8. Launched at Lisbon European Council in 2000

9. Further green paper on ERA in 2007

11. ‘Competition of rationalities’ (Beck, 1992)

12. Interface - cross-disciplinary, cross-sector, cross-specialisms – developments creating new theoretical and empirical frameworks

13. Cultural disconnections

15. Individualisation thesis – young people ‘choosing’ biographies – ‘responsibility’

16. Social imagination growing – imagining a number of different biographies – implications of the ‘reflexive project of the self’ (Giddens, 1991) for the research agenda and research frameworks

17. Economic and social capital – implicating abilities to construct worlds of imagination (CL)

19. Making sense of local, national, European, global youth realities

20. Disembedded social relations – disembedded research? Demanding more creative and responsive methodologies

21. Researcher gaze –methodological designs (different ways of observing youth realities) - production of knowledge

22. A European gaze?

23. Views of users of youth research? Communication