Young and Lonely

Janet Batsleer is a Reader in Youth and Community at Manchester Metropolitan University.James Duggan is a Research Fellow in Childhood, Youth and Education studies at Manchester Metropolitan University.

• Animate, attune, amplifyFinding oneself a loneliness agenda I’m new here: creating a new research project and a young person led research agendaPART I: The social conditions of lonelinessLoneliness and poverty Being an outsider The education system, aspiration and lonelinessPART II: The experience of lonelinessTransitions Loss, grief and lonelinessBeing left out Online spaces and connection PART III: Building friendship and connectionAsking for help and offering connectionYouth work as a method Creativity and solidarity as method: the example of Missing and other stories New ways for thinking and feeling loneliness