Young People, Education and Work

Research Projects

 

• Youth, Gender and Education: The Changing Landscapes of Work in Rural Sub Saharan Africa (WE-SAY)
  British Academy (2020-22)
• Action on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture (ACHA)
  Department for International Development (DfID) (2020-27)
• Rural Youth Employment in Sub Saharan Africa
  International Fund for Agricultural Development (2017-21)

Indicative Publications

• Crossouard, B., Dunne, M., Szyp, C., Madu, T., & Teeken, B. (2022):
  Rural youth in southern Nigeria: fractured lives and ambitious futures. Journal of Sociology, 58, 218 –235.
  *Special Issue on Imagining rural futures in times of uncertainty and possibility

• Crossouard, B., Dunne, M., & Szyp, C. (2021):
  'The social landscape of education and work of rural youth in Sub Saharan Africa'
  In J. Sumberg (Ed.), Youth and the Rural Economy in Africa. Hard Work and Hazard (pp. 125-140). Wallingford, UK: CABI.
• Dunne, M., Humphreys, S., & Szyp, C. (2021):
  'Education and Work: Children’s Lives in Rural Sub Saharan Africa'
  ACHA Working Paper 9. University of Sussex, UK: Institute for Development Studies.
• Sumberg, J., Flynn, J., Oosterom, M., Yeboah, T., Crossouard, B., & Thorsen, D. (2021):
  'African youth and the rural economy: Points of departure'
  In J. Sumberg (Ed.), Youth and the Rural Economy in Africa. Hard Work and Hazard (pp. 1-22). UK: CABI.
• Sumberg, J., Szyp, C., Yeboah, T., Oosterom, M., Crossouard, B., & Chamberlin, J. (2021):
  'Young people and the rural economy: synthesis and implications'
  In J. Sumberg (Ed.), Youth and the Rural Economy in Africa. Hard Work and Hazard (pp. 173-180). UK: CABI.
• Yeboah, T., Crossouard, B., & Flynn, J. (2021):
  'Young people's imagined futures'
  In J. Sumberg (Ed.), Youth and the Rural Economy in Africa.  Hard Work and Hazard (pp. 155-172). Wallingford, UK: CABI.
• Delprato, M. and Akyeampong, K. (2019):
  'The effect of working on students' learning in Latin America: Evidence from the learning survey TERCE'
  International Journal of Educational Development, 70 (102086).
• Dunne, M. & King, R. (2003):
  'Outside Theory: An exploration of the links between education and work for Ghanaian market traders' 
  Journal of Education and Work, 16(1), 27-44.