Friday, 28 February 2020

Workshop: Navigating from education to employment in crisis and uncertainty

Zoe Jordan writes:

Young people’s position in the labour market is increasingly precarious and uncertainty is an ever-present dimension for young people living in protracted displacement and other crisis settings. Over the last decade, much progress has been made in developing frameworks to provide education in crisis. However, there is currently limited research examining the relationship between education and employment prospects in such contexts.

As part of the ESRC/GCRF and IDRC funded research programme “From education to employment. Trajectories for young people in Lebanon and Jordan in the context of protracted displacement”, CENDEP, in collaboration with the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS), is hosting an international workshop responding to the need for greater insight into young people’s trajectories from education to employment in crisis settings from 28 – 29 April 2020. Preliminary findings from the research programme will be presented, and we invite researchers and policy makers working in other contexts of uncertainty to join us to share insights, analytical approaches, and empirical realities.

We will be questioning education and employment strategies among young people and their families in the context of crisis; intersectionality and its workings in young people’s trajectories, focusing particularly on legal status, gender, disability, class and other social positions; the relevance of education for employment in the context of protracted displacement; and how young people are categorized and conceptualised, and its implications for policy and practice.

Paper presentations (15 – 20 minutes) and interventions for a roundtable discussion (5 minutes) are invited. Please send short abstracts (up to 200 words) indicating which format you would like to present, to Zoe Jordan (zjordan@brookes.ac.uk) by 17 March 2020.

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