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Understanding gender and sexuality: The hidden curriculum in English schools (2023)
Journal Article
Gangoli, G., Donovan, C., King, H., & Dutt, A. (2023). Understanding gender and sexuality: The hidden curriculum in English schools. Review of Education, 11(3), Article e3440. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3440

Schools continue to produce regimes of gender and sexuality, including overt and covert curricula based on assumed essentialist differences between girls and boys, reinforced and regulated through uniform, sport and peer pressure. The recent focus on... Read More about Understanding gender and sexuality: The hidden curriculum in English schools.

The COVID-19 pandemic and youth in recent, historical perspective: more pressure, more precarity (2023)
Journal Article
MacDonald, R., King, H., Murphy, E., & Gill, W. (2023). The COVID-19 pandemic and youth in recent, historical perspective: more pressure, more precarity. Journal of Youth Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2022.2163884

Young people have faced some of the hardest social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns. Taking a critical Youth Studies perspective, we draw on research with nearly 1,000 16-to-30-year olds in North East England in... Read More about The COVID-19 pandemic and youth in recent, historical perspective: more pressure, more precarity.

Perceptions of safety and experiences of gender-based violence at UK music festivals (2022)
Journal Article
Bows, H., King, H., & Measham, F. (2023). Perceptions of safety and experiences of gender-based violence at UK music festivals. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 7(1), 74-92. https://doi.org/10.1332/239868021x16439111624553

Crime and safety at UK music festivals is a subject of growing concern for festival management, police and festival-goers, bolstered by increasing media coverage of incidents of sexual harassment and sexual assault. To date, however, there has been l... Read More about Perceptions of safety and experiences of gender-based violence at UK music festivals.

Introduction to Special Issue. Distancing, Disease and Distress: The Young and COVID-19: Exploring Young People’s Experience of Inequalities and Their Resourcefulness During the Pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Bengtsson, T., Blackman, S., King, H., & Østergaard, J. (2021). Introduction to Special Issue. Distancing, Disease and Distress: The Young and COVID-19: Exploring Young People’s Experience of Inequalities and Their Resourcefulness During the Pandemic. Young, 29(4_suppl), S5-S10. https://doi.org/10.1177/11033088211032792

‘Education as the practice of freedom?’ – prison education and the pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
O'Brien, K., King, H., Phillips, J., & Dalton, P. A. K. (. O. T. D. U. I. C. (2022). ‘Education as the practice of freedom?’ – prison education and the pandemic. Educational Review, 74(3), 685-703. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2021.1996335

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a corner of society where the spotlight has not fallen. As in ‘ordinary’ times, this is the black hole of prisons, whose population consists of predominantly poor, minoritised and often younger adults.... Read More about ‘Education as the practice of freedom?’ – prison education and the pandemic.

Responsibility, resilience and symbolic power (2021)
Journal Article
King, H., Crossley, S., & Smith, R. (2021). Responsibility, resilience and symbolic power. Sociological Review, 69(5), 920-936. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026120986108

The reciprocal nature of the relationship between the concepts of responsibilisation and resilience appears, in policy and political circles at least, almost natural. Whilst both concepts have been subjected to sustained academic critique for their p... Read More about Responsibility, resilience and symbolic power.

Looking South: What can Youth Studies in the Global North learn from research on youth and policy in the Middle East and North African countries? (2020)
Journal Article
MacDonald, R., & King, H. (2021). Looking South: What can Youth Studies in the Global North learn from research on youth and policy in the Middle East and North African countries?. Mediterranean Politics, 26(3), 285-307. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2020.1749815

Connell’s ‘Southern Theory’ calls for intellectuals in the ‘Global North’ ‘to start learning in new ways, and in new relationships’ with and from scholars in the ‘Global South’ in order to better understand the subjects of our research. This, exactly... Read More about Looking South: What can Youth Studies in the Global North learn from research on youth and policy in the Middle East and North African countries?.

Building Bridges Across Diversity: Utilising the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Programme to promote an egalitarian higher education community within three UK prisons (2018)
Journal Article
King, H., Measham, F., & O’Brien, K. (2019). Building Bridges Across Diversity: Utilising the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Programme to promote an egalitarian higher education community within three UK prisons. International journal of bias, identity and diversities in education, 4(1), 66-81. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijbide.2019010105

The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Programme is a unique prison education programme that brings together ‘Inside' (prison) students and ‘Outside' (university) students to learn collaboratively through dialogue and community-building exercises within the... Read More about Building Bridges Across Diversity: Utilising the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Programme to promote an egalitarian higher education community within three UK prisons.

The Connection between Personal Traumas and Educational Exclusion in Young People’s Lives (2016)
Journal Article
King, H. (2016). The Connection between Personal Traumas and Educational Exclusion in Young People’s Lives. Young, 24(4), 342-358. https://doi.org/10.1177/1103308815627752

The correlation between young people with poor outcomes and educational exclusion is well documented, but the relationship between the two is taken for granted and remains unexplored. A qualitative longitudinal research project, employing innovative... Read More about The Connection between Personal Traumas and Educational Exclusion in Young People’s Lives.

A Comparison of Youth Policy in England and Wales Under New Labour. (2015)
Journal Article
King, H. (2016). A Comparison of Youth Policy in England and Wales Under New Labour. Social Policy and Society, 15(3), 337-350. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1474746415000354

Although there has been a divergence in the development of youth policy across the UK, no country comparisons have been undertaken and a gap exists in the literature. This article focuses on the emergence of youth policy in England and Wales under Ne... Read More about A Comparison of Youth Policy in England and Wales Under New Labour..