Session structure

Each session consist of 3-4 presentations. The structure will be 15 minutes presentation followed by 10 minutes of questions and feedback.

Each session will have a Chair, which in most cases will be one of those presenting in the session. The role of the Chair is to welcome, manage time and be a moderator.

All conference participants are welcome to attend and participate in any sessions they find interesting!

What do you need to prepare?

If you are to present at a session, you must prepare a 15-minute presentation. It is also expected that you have read the other abstracts for the session and prepared questions or comments. You will have access to all abstracts in “Book of abstract”. We will not arrange for submission of papers in advance.

Please bring your own computer if you want to display something on screen during a session. There will be arrangements to connect to the screen in each room where a session will be held.

Book of Abstracts

In “Book of Abstracts” you will find an overview of all the abstracts that will be presented at the various sessions. You can download it here:

Session program

Session 1 (Monday 13.30-15.00)

Room	Session
PA329	SOCIAL CLASS 1. Transmission of health practices in youth: Classed health cultures in working- and upper-class communities over time (Eriksen, I., Stefansen, K., Walseth, K., Langset, T. & Strandbu, Å.) 2. Cultural transmission in early childhood and parental habitus (Roaldsnes, A.) 3. Class and opportunity hoarding among youth in Norway (Moberg, K. E. & Rogstad, J.) Chair: Jørn Ljunggren
PA314	TRANSITIONS 1. The Class of 2015 – What has happened to them? – Londitudinal qualitative research project “Youth in Time” (Aapola-Kari, S., Armila, P., Tolonen, T. & Wrede-Jäntti, M.) 3. Youth Without End (Jensen, K. B.) 4. Resonance: exploring how trainee-students perceive connections and contradictions between school and youth culture using interpretive documentary analysis (Wiig, C. & Aagre, W.) 4. Broken normality. Young adult’s stories of transitioning into adulthood after placement in secure care (Enell, S. & Wilinska, M.) Chair: Willy Aagre
PA311	YOUTH WORK AND ALTERNATIVE ARENAS 1. From boyology to surveys: Knowing and researching the youth in the early 20th century Finnish Christian boys’ work (Julkunen, L.) 2. Youth Work on Wheels – One Option for the Future (Tormulainen, A.) 3. Youth Work and the Arts: Global Trends in Youth Arts Programs (Howard, F.) 4. The role of rituals, routines and rules in art projects as an alternative arena for social change (Nielsen, A. M. W.) Chair: Mette Løvgren
PA308	THE INTOXICATED SELF 1. New psychedelic youth (Enghoff, O. & Petersen, M. A.) 2. The relation between compensated dating and alcohol- and drug use (Bjønness, J.) 3. Ambigious encounters: Intoxicated sexual relations in night time settings (Petersen, M. A., Hunt, G. & Borgen, A.) Chair: Margit Anne Petersen
PA304	SOCIAL INCLUSION OF YOUTH ACCORDING TO YOUNG PEOPLE – A NORDIC PERSPECTIVE (NABO) 1. Youth, social inclusion and struggle in the Faroe Islands (Gaini, F.) 2. Social inclusion among youth in Finland – a qualitative study (Wrede-Jäntti, M.) 3. Marginal Youth – Youth minority (Mogensen, K. H.) 4. Young people living in small places (Olesen, E. S. B.) Chair: Kevin Mogensen
PA301	SPORTS AND LEISURE 1. Opportunities for children and youth participation in organized leisure activities across local community contexts (Arnesen, D., Persson, M. & Enjolras, B.) 2. Performance-enhancing substances and athletes’ network: Who are they, and what role do they play for the athletes? (Skilbred, A.) 3. Groove Politics: Rethinking political participation through Norwegian hip-hop during the “immigration crisis” (Bøhler, K. K.) Chair: Daniel Arnesen
PA357	PROFESSIONALS AND MARGINALIZED YOUTH 1. Between appropriateness and sticky objects – welfare professionals talking about youth work and marginalisation (Scott, K.) 2. Youth participation in crime prevention – a utopia or part of the solution? (Lid, S., Rosten, M. & Dullum, J.) 3. The paradox of helping – how welfare professionals want to make a difference for crime-prone young people (Brønsted, L. B.) Chair: Monika Grønli Rosten

Session 2 (Tuesday 9.00-10.45)

Room	Session
PA329	COVID-19 AND WELL-BEING 1. Being young in times of uncertainty and isolation: adolescents’ experiences of well-being, health and loneliness during Covid-19 pandemic (Hemberg, J & Sundqvist, A., Korzhina, Y., Östman, L., Nyström, L., Groundstroem, H. & Nyman-Kurkiala, P.) 2. Finnish Young People’s Views about the Control Measures Related to the Covid-19 pandemic – Results from a series of surveys for 12-24-year-olds in 2020-21 (Aapola-Kari, S., Helfer, A., & Kauppinen, E.) 3. From ‘Night on the Town’ to Lockdown: Examining the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Student’s Spatial and Emotional Leisure Experiences in the Night-time Economy (King, M.) 4. When we must stay at home: Longitudinal Changes in Mental Health, Psychological Well-being and Autobiographical Memories among Children and Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Hjuler, T. F.)  Chair: Amanda Sundqvist
PA314	YOUTH ACTIVITIES 1. Gender and socioeconomic differences in patterns of adolescent leisure time activities: A latent class analysis (Bakken, A., Enstad, F. & Frøyland, L. R.) 2. Young people’s varying experiences of inclusion and loneliness according to different hobbies – A quantitative study of 15 000 young people in Finland (Sinisalo-Juha, E.) 3. Profiles of participation in voluntary activities among Finnish youth (Kaunismaa, P.) 4. Athlete development in Norwegian elite handball – untangling the dynamics of social performance and self-identity (Øydna, M. L.) Chair: Frøydis Enstad
PA311	EMPLOYMENT AND WORK 1. Youth cultures and career pathways – A life-course perspective on sticker artists’ cultural and professional engagements in St Petersburg (Vasileva, N. & Honkatukia, P.) 2. Realising the North East Ambition- Evidence driven insights for policy design (Rainsford, E.) 3. ‘A toxic combination’: Performance, temporariness and struggling for success in early work life (Nielsen, M.) 4. Flexible selves. Young restaurant workers in the contingent labour market (Haikkola, L. & Junnilainen, L.) Chair: Mette Lykke Nielsen
PA308	CIVIC PARTICIPATION 1. Youth, Participation and Democracy in Europe – Literature Review and Overview of Quantitative International Databases (Rottach, A. & Hofmann-van de Poll, F.) 2. “Twitter opens the minds of Saudis to other Saudis”: Young people’s perspectives on public opinion, social media and state-society relationship (Alotaibi, A.) 3. Graffiti subculture. Comparing representations, counter-representations and self-representations (Genova, C.) 4. What happened to the house on the hill? How digging into a municipal mystery turned invited youth participation into uninvited activism (Hagen, A. L., Tolstad, I. M., Lorenzen, S. B. & Engerbakk, B.) Chair: Aina Landsverk Hagen
PA304	VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING (VET) 1. Sidestepping the vocational track? Why do VET-students choose to aim for an academic instead of a vocational qualification? (Skålholt, A. & Hovdhaugen, E.) 2. Vocational Students’ Social Relationships, Resources and Capabilities (Tolonen, T., Lahtinen, J. & Pöysä, V.) 3. Against the odds: Resilience among students and apprentices in vocational education and training in Norway (Schmid, E. & Haukedal, C. L.) 4. Understanding girls’ choices of vocational education in Norway. A longitudinal, processual perspective (Smette, I. & Hegna, K.) Chair: Kristinn Hegna

Session 3 (Tuesday 13.30-15.00)

Room	Session
PA329	MENTAL HEALTH #1 1. Adolescents’ and young adults’ experiences of loneliness and their thoughts about its alleviation (Sundqvist, A., Hemberg, J.) 2. Causes of loneliness amongst adolescents and young adults: An integrative review (Korzhina, Y., Hemberg, J., Nyman-Kurkiala, P, Fagerström, L.) 3. Students just long for a grey Monday (Bjønness, J. & Petersen, M. A.) Chair: Margit Anne Petersen
PA314	SCHOOL BELONGING 1. Students’ belonging in higher education – Negotiating psychosocial problems and participation (Larsen, L.) 2. Inclusive school environment and class-based home-school collaboration (Berg, A. & Rogstad, J.) 3. School belonging and burden: The duality among boys with foreign born parents in Norway (Bjørnset, M.) 4. Subjectivity and symbolic boundaries in the city and the mobility of youth (Larsen, V.) Chair: Jon Rogstad
PA311	SOCIAL WORK AND VULNERABLE YOUTH 1. What helps to cope during out-of-home care – Experiences of former Finnish child welfare clients (Kaittila, A., Alin, M., Anis, M., Karukivi, M., & Leinonen, L.) 2. Communication as a building block in encountering the young in need of help (Leinonen, L.) 3. Crime prevention amongst repetitive youth offenders (Wigenstad, S. & Ytreland, K.) 4. Unaccompanied refugee minors: navigating cultural transition during resettlement in a Nordic country (Andersson, E. S., Øverlien, C.) Chair: Skule Wigenstad
PA308	GENDER AND SEXUALITIES 1. State, community and familial regulation of young people’s sexuality and gender in England (King, H.) 2. Queer Rememberings: Retrospective insights of Finnish preservice teachers on their educational experiences (Jones, M.C. & Brunila, K.) 3. Between Agency and Uncertainty – Young Women and Men Constructing Citizenship Through Stories of Sexual Harassment (Honkatukia, P., Peltola, M., Aho, T. & Saukkonen, R.) 4. Young women’s perceptions of sexual consent (Saukkonen, R.) Chair: Rikke Tokle
PA304	YOUTHS IN RURAL REGIONS 1. Growing up girl in rural Norway: Belonging, bullying and beauty standards (Eriksen, I.) 2. Multilocality in emerging rural adulthood in Finland (Vehkalahti, K.) 3. New materialist perspective on rural youth – Place-youth-technology-assemblages in rural Finland (Pöysä, V. & Ristaniemi, H.) Chair: Ingunn Marie Eriksen

Session 4 (Tuesday 15.30-17.00)

Room	Session
PA329	EDUCATION 1. Students` preparation for assessment: a multiple case study in lower secondary school (Stenersen, C. R.) 2. Young people’s experiences of distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic – opportunities and limitations (Hemberg, J., Korzhina, Y., Sundqvist, A., Östman, L., Groundstroem, H., Nyström, L. & Nyman-Kurkiala, P.) 3. From self-governance to self-regulation: New student and learning ideals in education (Hegna, K. & Smette, I.) 4. Becoming (un)proper students (Wulf-Andersen, T.) Chair: Ingrid Smette
PA314	CO-RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY IN YOUTH RESEARCH 1. Towards Thick Participation: Creatively exploring citizen anthropological science methods for youth involvement in Norwegian urban planning (Hagen, A. L., Rosten, M. Tolstad, I. M. & Lorenzen, S. B.) 2. Studying young people’s transitions in everyday life and education. Methodological remarks and concerns (Gravesen, D. T.) 3. Meaningfulness in the margins – Perceptions of meaning in life among young adults not in employment or education (Suontausta, J.) 4. An encounter with indirect approach (Bordevich, K.) Chair: Frode Restad
PA311	YOUTH PARTICIPATION AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT 1. Everyday peace and youth (Suoranta, A. S.) 2. Young people’s political engagement – a new political subject (Lieberkind, J.) 3. Youth participation in Vietnamese development programs (Mai, Y.) 4. From the prevention of radicalization to the promotion of solidarity – Critical considerations on the role of education in guiding the construction of young people’s worldviews (Benjamin, S. & Namdar, C.) Chair: Saija Benjamin
PA308	DIGITAL YOUTH 1. Outside school hours: digital leisure and learning (Hyggen. C., Andreasen, K., Mifsud, L. & Rustad, M. B.) 2. Tracing the digital landscapes of young people (Tuuva-Hongisto, S., Berg, P. & Korjonen-Kuusipuro, K.) 3. Fear of missing real life: Young people’s screen time and means of control (Haverinen, V.-S., Armila, P. & Tuuva-Hongisto, S.) Chair: Christer Hyggen
PA304	Meetings Nordic networks: NORDIC YOUTH IN RURAL REGIONS

Session 5 (Wednesday 09.00-10.45)

Room	Session
PA329	PANEL DISCUSSION: THE FUTURE OF NORDIC YOUTH IN RURAL REGIONS Chair: Academy Research Fellow Kaisa Vehkalahti (University of Jyväskylä) Discussant: Professor Gry Paulgaard (UiT, The Arctic University of Norway) Panelists: Professor Maria Rönnlund (University of Umeå), Senior Researcher Jeanette Østergaard (VIVE, Danish Center for Social Science Research), Research Professor Ingunn Marie Eriksen (NOVA Norwegian Social Research Institute, Oslo Metropolitan University) & Doctoral Candidate, Helena Ristaniemi (Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu)
PA314	ACHIEVEMENT SOCIETY 1. Dissecting the Achievement Generation: How Different Groups of Early Adolescents Experience and Navigate Contemporary Achievement Demands (Krogh, S. C. & Madsen, O. J.) 2. Well-being in High School (Nielsen, J. C.) 3. Towards a synthesis of youth wellbeing research and sociology of waiting (Aaltonen, S.) 4. Tempo, wellbeing, and performance – new and classic forms of marginalisation in young people’s lives in Denmark (Görlich, A., Katznelson, N. & Pless, M.) Chair: Lihong Huang
PA311	ILLEGAL DRUGS 1. Pathways into substance use treatment – experiences of Finnish young adults (Helfer, A., Pitkänen, T. & Jurvanen, S.) 2. The protective power of privilege in illegal drug distribution? Background, Market, and Stigma (Berger, E. J.) 3. Selling of illegal drugs on social media (Bakken, S. A.) Chair: Eirik Jerven Berger
PA308	VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL VICTIMS 1. Police interpretations of victims of sexual violence in youth intimate relationships (Isotalo, A.) 2. Party rape: Interaction, desire and socio-sexual status ascription in victim narratives (Stefansen, K., Solstad, G. M. & Tokle, R.) 3. Violent Victimization Experiences and Sexual Health Outcomes in Adolescence: A Latent Class Analysis Approach (Frøyland, L. R., Stefansen, K., Pedersen, W. & von Soest, T.) 4. Typologies of Sexual Assaults among Young People: A Latent Class Analysis Approach (Andersen, P. L., Frøyland, L. R. & Stefansen, K.) Chair: Lars Roar Frøyland
PA304	MENTAL HEALTH #2 1. Gender and self-reported mental health problems among youth – the role of negatively and positively angled questions (Sletten, M. A. & Bakken, A.) 2. An intergenerational study of mental health among parents and adolescents (Labriola, M.) 3.”I’m really trying to push that boundary”- learning from students´ negotiation of educational norms after periods with severe stress (Stigemo, A.) Chair: Anders Bakken