A Keating
Biographic Data
| ID | 34670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Keating |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Keating |
| SIGNATURE | KEATING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5021-5048 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
‘Nothing to do and nowhere to go’: Leisure, social infrastructure and the erosion of youth belonging on the East of England coast
Is it the place or the people in the places? Exploration of why young people in deprived coastal communities of England have worse mental health than their peers inland
English adolescents’ mental health is lower in coastal, vs inland, deprived areas. • We used twelve waves of a nationally representative study of adolescents living in England from 2009-2020. • We linked individual and environmental measures to where respondents lived during adolescence. • We then followed them up to 11 years later to assess their mental health as young adults. • Keys drivers of the coastal mental health gap were household socio-…
Education and Policy Borrowing in the Arabian Gulf: Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Saudi Arabia
Movers, returners and stayers: The role of place in shaping the (im)mobility aspirations of young people in coastal towns
This article focuses on the role of place in shaping the (im)mobility aspirations of young people in coastal towns. In the Global North, youth mobility has become a normalised part of the journey to higher education and ‘cosmopolitan’ adulthood. However, we argue that this is only part of the story for young people in coastal towns in England. Many of these coastal towns now face persistent socio-economic and infrastructural challenges. Against t…
Residence in coastal communities in adolescence and health in young adulthood: An 11-year follow-up of English UKHLS youth questionnaire respondents
We used the UK Household Longitudinal Study to examine whether community type (inland or coastal) in adolescence (10-15 years) was associated with five adult health outcomes assessed over 11 waves of follow-up (2009-22). When the analyses were stratified on area deprivation, four of the five health outcomes - self-rated, long-standing illness, psychological distress and mental functioning - showed worse health in increasingly more deprived commun…
Youth Attitudes Towards Their Future: The Role of Resources, Agency and Individualism in the UK
Young adults tend to be more optimistic about the future than older people, even during social and economic crises such as those created by the COVID pandemic. In this paper, we analyse survey data from a previous economic crisis to examine why young adults remain optimistic about their personal futures, and to consider what lessons, if any, this can help us with thinking about a post-COVID future. The data in question are drawn from a unique cro…
Mobility for Me but Not for Others: The Contradictory Cosmopolitan Practices of Contemporary White British Youth
This article seeks to problematise the perception that young people are committed cosmopolitans by highlighting some of the contradictory and contingent practices that young White British youth engage in. To do so, I explore a contradiction that emerged in my recent projects when young people talked about mobility and migration, namely how some White British youth want (and assume) freedom of movement for themselves but are opposed to freedom of …
Immigrants, inclusion, and the role of hard work: Exploring anti-immigrant attitudes among young people in Britain
Previous research on youth attitudes towards immigration has tended to focus on explaining why young people are more accepting of immigrants than their elders. In this article, therefore, we focus on the young people that are opposed to immigration. First, we use nationally representative survey data from young adults in England to highlight that a substantial minority hold negative attitudes towards immigrants. In the second half of the article,…
Are today’s youth more tolerant? Trends in tolerance among young people in Britain
Attitudes towards social groups that have traditionally been marginalised or discriminated against have changed markedly in Britain over the past three decades. This change is particularly marked in attitudes towards homosexuality and racial diversity which, as public opinion surveys have regularly shown, have become more accepting over time. This change is often attributed to older, less tolerant generations being replaced by young cohorts who a…
Imagining the Future in the Neoliberal Era: Young People’s Optimism and Their Faith in Hard Work
In the aftermath of the 2008 global economic crisis, the future of young people is often presented in a negative light. Despite the recent difficult circumstances, our mixed-method study found that young people in Britain were still optimistic about their personal future. In this article, we explore the tension between this optimism and the (often less positive) actual circumstances of young people. Our findings suggest that young people’s views …
Social media and youth political engagement: Preaching to the converted or providing a new voice for youth
Amidst concern about declining youth political engagement, it is often suggested that social media can provide a solution to this challenge. In this article, however, we argue that these online tools have not thus far mobilised a new audience to become engaged in either institution-oriented activities or political expression. Instead, we found that some young people are far more engaged in using social media for political purposes than others, an…
Global citizens or global workers? Comparing university programmes for global citizenship education in Japan and the UK
The implementation of global citizenship programmes at universities has been taking place against a backdrop of growing internationalisation and marketisation in higher education, leading some to conclude that universities are cultivating global workers rather than global citizens. This small-scale exploratory study aimed to investigate these claims through the comparison of global citizenship education (GCE) programmes in two contrasting context…
Education Through Citizenship at School: Do School Activities Have a Lasting Impact on Youth Political Engagement
Over the past two decades, various policy initiatives have been proposed to solve the perceived problem of youth disengagement from politics. This article examines the impact of one such policy initiative—namely the introduction of activities that seek to teach ‘education through citizenship’ at school. In short, ‘education through citizenship’ involves formal and informal learning opportunities that enable students to acquire civic skills and kn…
Are cosmopolitan dispositions learned at home, at school, or through contact with others? Evidence from young people in Europe
There has been a resurgence of interest in cosmopolitan theories of citizenship over the past two decades, as academics and policymakers have sought to understand and conceptualise citizenship affiliations that transcend the nation-state. As part of these debates, a number of theories have been developed to try to explain the emergence of cosmopolitan dispositions, and in particular, why some citizens develop these dispositions and others do not.…
Censorship: The Cornerstone of Catholic Ireland
I'll tie my lips together with a string And count their misers law a little thing; And leave to God those who His gifts refuse Who blind the poets and strike dumb the muse.
New modes of governance in Europe: Mapping the multiple actors, institutions, and instruments in a shifting political space
Educating Europe's citizens: Moving from national to post-national models of educating for European citizenship
The relationship between the EU institutions and its citizens is once again foremost in the minds of European policymakers and commentators. Recent referenda on European institutional reform have been rejected by the citizens of France, the Netherlands and, most recently, Ireland, thus re-igniting debates across Europe about the quality of European democracy and the limits and possibilities of European integration. Educational reforms and initiat…
Developing a European dimension to the sociology of education
The Changing Face of European Identity: A Seven-nation Study of (Supra)national Attachments, Policy Change and Discourse in Europe
Radio Imagination: Octavia Butler on the Poetics of Narrative Embodiment
Radio Imagination": Octavia Butler on the Poetics of Narrative Embodiment Get access Marilyn Mehaffy, Marilyn Mehaffy Independent Scholar and Aquinas college Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar AnaLouise Keating AnaLouise Keating Independent Scholar and Aquinas college Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 26, Issue 1, March 2001, Pages 45-76, https://doi.org/10…
Education Through Citizenship at School: Do School Activities Have a Lasting Impact on Youth Political Engagement
Over the past two decades, various policy initiatives have been proposed to solve the perceived problem of youth disengagement from politics. This article examines the impact of one such policy initiative—namely the introduction of activities that seek to teach ‘education through citizenship’ at school. In short, ‘education through citizenship’ involves formal and informal learning opportunities that enable students to acquire civic skills and kn…
Are today’s youth more tolerant? Trends in tolerance among young people in Britain
Attitudes towards social groups that have traditionally been marginalised or discriminated against have changed markedly in Britain over the past three decades. This change is particularly marked in attitudes towards homosexuality and racial diversity which, as public opinion surveys have regularly shown, have become more accepting over time. This change is often attributed to older, less tolerant generations being replaced by young cohorts who a…
Imagining the Future in the Neoliberal Era: Young People’s Optimism and Their Faith in Hard Work
In the aftermath of the 2008 global economic crisis, the future of young people is often presented in a negative light. Despite the recent difficult circumstances, our mixed-method study found that young people in Britain were still optimistic about their personal future. In this article, we explore the tension between this optimism and the (often less positive) actual circumstances of young people. Our findings suggest that young people’s views …
Social media and youth political engagement: Preaching to the converted or providing a new voice for youth
Amidst concern about declining youth political engagement, it is often suggested that social media can provide a solution to this challenge. In this article, however, we argue that these online tools have not thus far mobilised a new audience to become engaged in either institution-oriented activities or political expression. Instead, we found that some young people are far more engaged in using social media for political purposes than others, an…
Are cosmopolitan dispositions learned at home, at school, or through contact with others? Evidence from young people in Europe
There has been a resurgence of interest in cosmopolitan theories of citizenship over the past two decades, as academics and policymakers have sought to understand and conceptualise citizenship affiliations that transcend the nation-state. As part of these debates, a number of theories have been developed to try to explain the emergence of cosmopolitan dispositions, and in particular, why some citizens develop these dispositions and others do not.…
Educating Europe's citizens: Moving from national to post-national models of educating for European citizenship
The relationship between the EU institutions and its citizens is once again foremost in the minds of European policymakers and commentators. Recent referenda on European institutional reform have been rejected by the citizens of France, the Netherlands and, most recently, Ireland, thus re-igniting debates across Europe about the quality of European democracy and the limits and possibilities of European integration. Educational reforms and initiat…
Global citizens or global workers? Comparing university programmes for global citizenship education in Japan and the UK
The implementation of global citizenship programmes at universities has been taking place against a backdrop of growing internationalisation and marketisation in higher education, leading some to conclude that universities are cultivating global workers rather than global citizens. This small-scale exploratory study aimed to investigate these claims through the comparison of global citizenship education (GCE) programmes in two contrasting context…
Radio Imagination: Octavia Butler on the Poetics of Narrative Embodiment
Radio Imagination": Octavia Butler on the Poetics of Narrative Embodiment Get access Marilyn Mehaffy, Marilyn Mehaffy Independent Scholar and Aquinas college Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar AnaLouise Keating AnaLouise Keating Independent Scholar and Aquinas college Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 26, Issue 1, March 2001, Pages 45-76, https://doi.org/10…
Movers, returners and stayers: The role of place in shaping the (im)mobility aspirations of young people in coastal towns
This article focuses on the role of place in shaping the (im)mobility aspirations of young people in coastal towns. In the Global North, youth mobility has become a normalised part of the journey to higher education and ‘cosmopolitan’ adulthood. However, we argue that this is only part of the story for young people in coastal towns in England. Many of these coastal towns now face persistent socio-economic and infrastructural challenges. Against t…
Immigrants, inclusion, and the role of hard work: Exploring anti-immigrant attitudes among young people in Britain
Previous research on youth attitudes towards immigration has tended to focus on explaining why young people are more accepting of immigrants than their elders. In this article, therefore, we focus on the young people that are opposed to immigration. First, we use nationally representative survey data from young adults in England to highlight that a substantial minority hold negative attitudes towards immigrants. In the second half of the article,…
Mobility for Me but Not for Others: The Contradictory Cosmopolitan Practices of Contemporary White British Youth
This article seeks to problematise the perception that young people are committed cosmopolitans by highlighting some of the contradictory and contingent practices that young White British youth engage in. To do so, I explore a contradiction that emerged in my recent projects when young people talked about mobility and migration, namely how some White British youth want (and assume) freedom of movement for themselves but are opposed to freedom of …
Residence in coastal communities in adolescence and health in young adulthood: An 11-year follow-up of English UKHLS youth questionnaire respondents
We used the UK Household Longitudinal Study to examine whether community type (inland or coastal) in adolescence (10-15 years) was associated with five adult health outcomes assessed over 11 waves of follow-up (2009-22). When the analyses were stratified on area deprivation, four of the five health outcomes - self-rated, long-standing illness, psychological distress and mental functioning - showed worse health in increasingly more deprived commun…
Radio Imagination: Octavia Butler on the Poetics of Narrative Embodiment
Radio Imagination": Octavia Butler on the Poetics of Narrative Embodiment Get access Marilyn Mehaffy, Marilyn Mehaffy Independent Scholar and Aquinas college Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar AnaLouise Keating AnaLouise Keating Independent Scholar and Aquinas college Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 26, Issue 1, March 2001, Pages 45-76, https://doi.org/10…
Developing a European dimension to the sociology of education
The Changing Face of European Identity: A Seven-nation Study of (Supra)national Attachments, Policy Change and Discourse in Europe
Educating Europe's citizens: Moving from national to post-national models of educating for European citizenship
The relationship between the EU institutions and its citizens is once again foremost in the minds of European policymakers and commentators. Recent referenda on European institutional reform have been rejected by the citizens of France, the Netherlands and, most recently, Ireland, thus re-igniting debates across Europe about the quality of European democracy and the limits and possibilities of European integration. Educational reforms and initiat…
New modes of governance in Europe: Mapping the multiple actors, institutions, and instruments in a shifting political space
Are cosmopolitan dispositions learned at home, at school, or through contact with others? Evidence from young people in Europe
There has been a resurgence of interest in cosmopolitan theories of citizenship over the past two decades, as academics and policymakers have sought to understand and conceptualise citizenship affiliations that transcend the nation-state. As part of these debates, a number of theories have been developed to try to explain the emergence of cosmopolitan dispositions, and in particular, why some citizens develop these dispositions and others do not.…
Censorship: The Cornerstone of Catholic Ireland
I'll tie my lips together with a string And count their misers law a little thing; And leave to God those who His gifts refuse Who blind the poets and strike dumb the muse.
Education Through Citizenship at School: Do School Activities Have a Lasting Impact on Youth Political Engagement
Over the past two decades, various policy initiatives have been proposed to solve the perceived problem of youth disengagement from politics. This article examines the impact of one such policy initiative—namely the introduction of activities that seek to teach ‘education through citizenship’ at school. In short, ‘education through citizenship’ involves formal and informal learning opportunities that enable students to acquire civic skills and kn…
Social media and youth political engagement: Preaching to the converted or providing a new voice for youth
Amidst concern about declining youth political engagement, it is often suggested that social media can provide a solution to this challenge. In this article, however, we argue that these online tools have not thus far mobilised a new audience to become engaged in either institution-oriented activities or political expression. Instead, we found that some young people are far more engaged in using social media for political purposes than others, an…
Global citizens or global workers? Comparing university programmes for global citizenship education in Japan and the UK
The implementation of global citizenship programmes at universities has been taking place against a backdrop of growing internationalisation and marketisation in higher education, leading some to conclude that universities are cultivating global workers rather than global citizens. This small-scale exploratory study aimed to investigate these claims through the comparison of global citizenship education (GCE) programmes in two contrasting context…
Imagining the Future in the Neoliberal Era: Young People’s Optimism and Their Faith in Hard Work
In the aftermath of the 2008 global economic crisis, the future of young people is often presented in a negative light. Despite the recent difficult circumstances, our mixed-method study found that young people in Britain were still optimistic about their personal future. In this article, we explore the tension between this optimism and the (often less positive) actual circumstances of young people. Our findings suggest that young people’s views …
Are today’s youth more tolerant? Trends in tolerance among young people in Britain
Attitudes towards social groups that have traditionally been marginalised or discriminated against have changed markedly in Britain over the past three decades. This change is particularly marked in attitudes towards homosexuality and racial diversity which, as public opinion surveys have regularly shown, have become more accepting over time. This change is often attributed to older, less tolerant generations being replaced by young cohorts who a…
Immigrants, inclusion, and the role of hard work: Exploring anti-immigrant attitudes among young people in Britain
Previous research on youth attitudes towards immigration has tended to focus on explaining why young people are more accepting of immigrants than their elders. In this article, therefore, we focus on the young people that are opposed to immigration. First, we use nationally representative survey data from young adults in England to highlight that a substantial minority hold negative attitudes towards immigrants. In the second half of the article,…
Mobility for Me but Not for Others: The Contradictory Cosmopolitan Practices of Contemporary White British Youth
This article seeks to problematise the perception that young people are committed cosmopolitans by highlighting some of the contradictory and contingent practices that young White British youth engage in. To do so, I explore a contradiction that emerged in my recent projects when young people talked about mobility and migration, namely how some White British youth want (and assume) freedom of movement for themselves but are opposed to freedom of …
Youth Attitudes Towards Their Future: The Role of Resources, Agency and Individualism in the UK
Young adults tend to be more optimistic about the future than older people, even during social and economic crises such as those created by the COVID pandemic. In this paper, we analyse survey data from a previous economic crisis to examine why young adults remain optimistic about their personal futures, and to consider what lessons, if any, this can help us with thinking about a post-COVID future. The data in question are drawn from a unique cro…
Education and Policy Borrowing in the Arabian Gulf: Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Saudi Arabia
Movers, returners and stayers: The role of place in shaping the (im)mobility aspirations of young people in coastal towns
This article focuses on the role of place in shaping the (im)mobility aspirations of young people in coastal towns. In the Global North, youth mobility has become a normalised part of the journey to higher education and ‘cosmopolitan’ adulthood. However, we argue that this is only part of the story for young people in coastal towns in England. Many of these coastal towns now face persistent socio-economic and infrastructural challenges. Against t…
Residence in coastal communities in adolescence and health in young adulthood: An 11-year follow-up of English UKHLS youth questionnaire respondents
We used the UK Household Longitudinal Study to examine whether community type (inland or coastal) in adolescence (10-15 years) was associated with five adult health outcomes assessed over 11 waves of follow-up (2009-22). When the analyses were stratified on area deprivation, four of the five health outcomes - self-rated, long-standing illness, psychological distress and mental functioning - showed worse health in increasingly more deprived commun…
Is it the place or the people in the places? Exploration of why young people in deprived coastal communities of England have worse mental health than their peers inland
English adolescents’ mental health is lower in coastal, vs inland, deprived areas. • We used twelve waves of a nationally representative study of adolescents living in England from 2009-2020. • We linked individual and environmental measures to where respondents lived during adolescence. • We then followed them up to 11 years later to assess their mental health as young adults. • Keys drivers of the coastal mental health gap were household socio-…
‘Nothing to do and nowhere to go’: Leisure, social infrastructure and the erosion of youth belonging on the East of England coast
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Social science (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (7 works) · Citizenship (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works)