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.
To find out
more: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/events/navigating-from-education-to-employment-in-crisis-and-uncertainty/
