Research at the Department of Child and Youth Studies focuses on younger children, children and young people, and young adults in education and leisure time.
Children's and young people's perspectives and ways of negotiating and acting are of particular interest. Thus, Preschool, School and Schoolage Educare are examples of institutions where children's experiences and perspectives are examined.
Other important contexts where children's and young people's everyday lives and identity work are studied are, for example, the media, housing areas, families and associations. The adult children and young people they meet are also relevant to the research. Theories and methods are taken from the humanities and social sciences and based on interdisciplinary approaches.
There are two postgraduate subjects at Department of Child and Youth Studies: Child and Youth Studies and Early Childhood Education.
