'Young Women in Movement: Sexualities, Vulnerabilities, Needs and Norms'

This seminar series is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council & the Institute of Health and Human Development, University of East London

Our overarching aim is to bring together academics, policy makers, practitioners and media professionals to investigate some of the key issues in young women's lives.

Our main aims are:

1. To bring together theoretical work on gender, sexuality and the body with recent empirical research findings on girls and young women from  across the EU;
2. To interrogate this work with academics, practitioners and media  professionals with a view to gaining better and more nuanced understandings of the current social positionings of girls and young women;
3. To bring together researchers focusing on school age girls with those whose work focuses on young women in the workplace, in unemployment; and in higher education;
4. To interrogate issues of young women's mobilities across Europe and the effects this has on identities and relationships;

5. To bring together researchers from across disciplines and national boundaries to form teams of partners to bid for future EU and national funding;
6. To produce both scholarly and popular outputs to a range of audiences, including the academic community, those working with young women across Europe, policy makers, and young women themselves.