Anna Anderson is an early career researcher having been awarded her PhD (Social
Science) in late 2011. Her areas of research interest encompass: the constitution and …

Considering the high rate of unintended teenage pregnancies in South Africa, this
qualitative study explored the lived experiences and perceptions of support amongst school …

Health promotion with young people has largely been framed by theories of behaviour
change to target 'unsafe','unhealthy'and/or 'risky'behaviours. These theories and models …

This paper considers the ways in which research projects linger beyond their
'official'endings, and how to deal with this. Building on conversations in human geography …

This article draws on a small-scale study that explored the (re) configuring,(re) turning and
(re) working of the experiences of mothering as seen from a position of looking back in …

The chapters in this collection aim to trouble simplistic notions of teenage pregnancy and
parenting. Each chapter, in its own way, contributes to a nuanced, yet critical, reading of the …

5.4 The question of accumulation. If life is a wager, what form does the bet take? At the
racetrack, an accumulator is a bet which rolls on profits from the success of one horse to …

abstract A pregnancy can be deemed a crisis for a number of different reasons. For several
years in the Republic of Ireland, a pregnancy was automatically labelled a crisis if the …

In this paper, I engage with the word 'mustering'as a potentially generative verb to use in
articulating the process of contemporary educational research. My focus is particularly on …

Well, I left school when I was 17. I was pregnant; I wanted to continue my education but they
asked me if there was anything I had to tell them and, when I told them I was pregnant, they …