Introducing our latest #GCYFRG_Spotlight@NathanSalvidge, based at
@UniofReading@UniRdg_GES
His research explores the complex relationship between youth, cities, and precarious livelihoods.
See his full profile here: https://t.co/l9tmhuVIhW
New paper out now in Area! ''Things have changed since we last spoke…': The impacts of parental death on the life and livelihood of a young informal vendor in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania' https://t.co/NCiEvCxkCX @UniRdg_GES
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🔊New paper published in #Areajournal by @NathanSalvidge (@UniRdg_GES):
'‘Things have changed since we last spoke…’: The impacts of parental death on the life and livelihood of a young informal vendor in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania'. #OpenAccess
https://t.co/yNO0DDQhY2
A huge thank you to Sophie Bowlby for initial discussions that helped develop the focus of this article and to @ahjackman and @mikegoodman56 for incredibly helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper.
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The paper argues that understanding how young people working within the informal sector respond to and manage the loss of a close family member is crucial as this shapes the types of support they need to sustain and develop their lives and livelihoods.
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Great workshop today bringing together colleagues across UoR around the theme of Thinking with the digital. Big thank you to everyone who joined & to co-organisers @NathanSalvidge & @mikegoodman56 🙂 @UniRdg_GES
🚨Call for Participants: States of Precarity🚨
The use of fixed-term contracts is widespread in UK HE Geography but it's effects (long & short term) are not well understood. This project seeks to address this by exploring experiences of precarity across UK academic geography🧵
Be updated on diversity of livelihoods, challenges faced and how livelihoods have been researched with the Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South, 25 years after @IanScoones seminal paper. Overview of book in new blog gives quick intro! https://t.co/xL8x3vGibr
A few photographs from Wednesday's @UniRdg_GES fieldclass with first-year students stood here by the Reading Abbey ruins. We explored Reading's place identity, visiting a number of locations across town. Photos courtesy of Robyn Woronka
An excellent resource for anyone interested in livelihoods and development in the Global South. Pleased to have contributed a chapter on the use of participatory GPS methods. Congratulations @FionaNunan, Clare Barnes, and @sukanyakmurthy
Check out this edited volume by IDD's @FionaNunan , Clare Barnes & Sukanya Krishnamurthy: The Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South.
https://t.co/MKHsCvR0gu
New in #Area: 'Reflections on using mobile GPS with young informal vendors in urban Tanzania' by @NathanSalvidge (@UniofReading). https://t.co/z6zlGlIRGA