Sophie Hadfield-Hill
Biographic Data
| ID | 72350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophie Hadfield-Hill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophie |
| FAMILY NAME | Hadfield-Hill |
| SIGNATURE | HADFIELD-HILL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5127-013X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Renewed questions of ethics in research with and for children and young people
Água negra (black water) and overwhelming details: For more-than -nexus approaches to global water–energy–food challenges
This paper advances multidisciplinary research, policy, education and activisms which cohere around the concept of the ‘water–energy–food (W–E–F) nexus’ via an evidence-led critique of normative forms of nexus-thinking which draws upon research with 3705 diverse young people's (aged 10–24 years) W–E–F experiences in SE Brazil. We consider how the neat, cool, ostensibly authoritative buzzword style of W–E–F nexus-thinking is radically unsettled – …
Expanding the scope of ethical research with and for children and young people – six viewpoints on crisis, cross-cultural working and reciprocity
This Viewpoints piece is a collection of six contributions to a wider Special Issue for Children’s Geographies on ‘Renewed questions of ethics in research with and for children and young people.’ The pieces extend the Issue in two key ways: i) by representing urgent questions of pandemic and crisis related ethics; and ii) extending the geographical and cultural scope of thinking ethically in research with children and young people
Family experiences of urban transformation: Entangled bodies, hopeful imaginations and embodied utopias
We offer an analysis of embodied utopias, the everyday ways in which children, young people and their families experience urban transformation – urban change which has been imagined, designed and planned to be utopian. Lavasa, a private sector, hill city development in the Indian state of Maharashtra, is one such utopian vision. We use the lenses of citizenship, control, precarity and performance to show how participants embody utopia. In sites o…
Geographies of food beyond food: Transfiguring nexus-thinking through encounters with young people in Brazil
Engaging contemporary forms of nexus-thinking with interdisciplinary food scholarship and childhood and youth studies, this paper explores the social, cultural and political implications of young people’s entangled connections with – and beyond – food. The paper draws on a large-scale research project investigating young Brazilians’ relationships with and understandings of the water-energy-food nexus. Based upon ethnographic, mixed-methods resear…
Articulating encounters between children and plastics
In the context of global concerns about plastics, this paper sets out and exemplifies a research agenda for articulating children's encounters with plastics. The paper analyses data co-produced with 11-15 year-olds through interviews, app-based research and experimental/arts-led workshops. It moves beyond scholarship in health and environmental sciences, and in environmental education research, to outline a far richer range of ways to conceptuali…
So you’re literally taking the piss?! Critically analysing and accounting for ethics (and risk) in interdisciplinary research on children and plastics
Whilst interdisciplinarity has been an integral part of childhood studies, it is less common for social scientists and natural scientists to collaborate in this space – and especially with scholars like environmental (nano)scientists. This paper draws on vignettes from a project about children and plastics, which combined a range of qualitative, artistic and biosampling methods. Focusing on these methodological intersections, the paper critically…
Children and young people as geological agents? Time, scale and multispecies vulnerabilities in the new epoch
In this paper we frame children as geological agents, very much part of epoch and biospherical processes, enfolded in Earth system changes. We draw on the experiences of Indian childhoods in a context where the land, water, animals, children’s bodies and forests are being shaped by a politics of corporate city building. We analyse how children and young people contribute to Earth system changes and consider the everyday, multispecies consequences…
Children and young people living through the monsoon: Watery entanglements and fluid inequalities
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I’m big, you’re small. I’m right, you’re wrong’: The multiple P/politics of ‘being young’ in new Sustainable Communities
This paper addresses the multiple politics of being young in new Sustainable Communities in the UK, places which were designed and built to foster active participation and inclusiveness. It is in this context that we uncover a series of rules and regulations which inhibit young people's participation in their communities. However, we also draw attention to young people's everyday politics which is broader and deeper than formal structures of part…
Promoting climate change transformation with young people in Brazil: Participatory Action Research Through a Looping Approach
Amid research into the mounting social and environmental threats presented by climate change, young people’s everyday experiences and knowledges are often overlooked, despite being the generation that will be most affected by climate change. We present a ‘looping’ methodology, developed through collaborative work between two distinct but complementary research projects wherein young people in the Paraíba do Sul watershed, São Paulo state, Brazil …
Re)thinking (re)connection: Young people, “natures” and the water–energy–food nexus in São Paulo State, Brazil
This paper critically analyses pervasive contemporary discourses that call for children and young people to be “reconnected” with nature and natural resources. Simultaneously, it reflects on emerging forms of nexus thinking and policy that seek to identify and govern connections between diverse sectors, and especially water, energy and food. Both of these fields of scholarship are concerned with connections, of different kinds, and at different s…
Complicating childhood-nature relations: Negotiated, spiritual and destructive encounters
The aim of this paper is to complicate predominantly western, dominant discourses of childhood-nature relations. Drawing on an approach inspired by common-world theorisations, we attend to the experiences of children and their families living, learning, working and playing in the goings-on of Indian urban transformation. Based on in-depth, ethnographic research, we build on literature which highlights the messy world of child-nature relations to …
Negotiating ethical challenges in youth research
This is an accessible and engaging text, addressing a range of ethical challenges which arise when researching with young people across a range of contexts and communities. This neatly edited colle
Children Living with 'Sustainable' Urban Architectures
This paper considers the everyday geographies of children living in new largescale urban developments in which multiple forms of 'sustainable' urban architecture are characteristic features. We argue that children's experiences of living with materialities, politics, and technologies of sustainability have too often been marginalised in much chief research on childhood, youth, and sustainability. Drawing on qualitative research with 8-16-year-old…
‘Walking … just walking’: How children and young people's everyday pedestrian practices matter
This paper considers the importance of walking for many children and young people's everyday lives, experiences and friendships. Drawing upon research with 175 9- to 16-year-olds living in new urban developments in south-east England, we highlight key characteristics of (daily, taken-for-granted, ostensibly aimless) walking practices, which were of constitutive importance in children and young people's friendships, communities and geographies. Th…
Children's experiences of participating in research: Emotional moments together
This paper reflects upon emotional moments in research with children and young people. In particular, we seek to contribute to the now-extensive literature on emotions in social scientific research practice by: (i) attempting to acknowledge the often-overlooked emotions experienced by children and young people whilst participating in research; (ii) highlighting the complex, multiperspectival nature of emotions in research. We suggest that these c…
Living on a building site: Young people’s experiences of emerging ‘Sustainable Communities’ in England
This paper examines experiences of young people (9–16) who live in new communities that are under construction. In the context of large-scale housing developments, built in England after 2000, it analyses various ways in which young people engage with life ‘on a building site’. From ethnographic research in three unfinished communities, several inter-linked themes became apparent: how young people engaged with building sites in both aesthetic and…
The Greening of Project Finance
Over the past decade, financial institutions have become increasingly conscious of the environmental and social implications of their lending decisions. This is due to widespread environmental and social awareness within mainstream society and the rise of sophisticated nongovernmental organisations. Geography provides an insight into a range of issues related to project finance, particularly with regard to human-environmental relationships, spati…
Re)thinking (re)connection: Young people, “natures” and the water–energy–food nexus in São Paulo State, Brazil
This paper critically analyses pervasive contemporary discourses that call for children and young people to be “reconnected” with nature and natural resources. Simultaneously, it reflects on emerging forms of nexus thinking and policy that seek to identify and govern connections between diverse sectors, and especially water, energy and food. Both of these fields of scholarship are concerned with connections, of different kinds, and at different s…
Promoting climate change transformation with young people in Brazil: Participatory Action Research Through a Looping Approach
Amid research into the mounting social and environmental threats presented by climate change, young people’s everyday experiences and knowledges are often overlooked, despite being the generation that will be most affected by climate change. We present a ‘looping’ methodology, developed through collaborative work between two distinct but complementary research projects wherein young people in the Paraíba do Sul watershed, São Paulo state, Brazil …
Living on a building site: Young people’s experiences of emerging ‘Sustainable Communities’ in England
This paper examines experiences of young people (9–16) who live in new communities that are under construction. In the context of large-scale housing developments, built in England after 2000, it analyses various ways in which young people engage with life ‘on a building site’. From ethnographic research in three unfinished communities, several inter-linked themes became apparent: how young people engaged with building sites in both aesthetic and…
Complicating childhood-nature relations: Negotiated, spiritual and destructive encounters
The aim of this paper is to complicate predominantly western, dominant discourses of childhood-nature relations. Drawing on an approach inspired by common-world theorisations, we attend to the experiences of children and their families living, learning, working and playing in the goings-on of Indian urban transformation. Based on in-depth, ethnographic research, we build on literature which highlights the messy world of child-nature relations to …
Geographies of food beyond food: Transfiguring nexus-thinking through encounters with young people in Brazil
Engaging contemporary forms of nexus-thinking with interdisciplinary food scholarship and childhood and youth studies, this paper explores the social, cultural and political implications of young people’s entangled connections with – and beyond – food. The paper draws on a large-scale research project investigating young Brazilians’ relationships with and understandings of the water-energy-food nexus. Based upon ethnographic, mixed-methods resear…
Children and young people as geological agents? Time, scale and multispecies vulnerabilities in the new epoch
In this paper we frame children as geological agents, very much part of epoch and biospherical processes, enfolded in Earth system changes. We draw on the experiences of Indian childhoods in a context where the land, water, animals, children’s bodies and forests are being shaped by a politics of corporate city building. We analyse how children and young people contribute to Earth system changes and consider the everyday, multispecies consequences…
I’m big, you’re small. I’m right, you’re wrong’: The multiple P/politics of ‘being young’ in new Sustainable Communities
This paper addresses the multiple politics of being young in new Sustainable Communities in the UK, places which were designed and built to foster active participation and inclusiveness. It is in this context that we uncover a series of rules and regulations which inhibit young people's participation in their communities. However, we also draw attention to young people's everyday politics which is broader and deeper than formal structures of part…
Children's experiences of participating in research: Emotional moments together
This paper reflects upon emotional moments in research with children and young people. In particular, we seek to contribute to the now-extensive literature on emotions in social scientific research practice by: (i) attempting to acknowledge the often-overlooked emotions experienced by children and young people whilst participating in research; (ii) highlighting the complex, multiperspectival nature of emotions in research. We suggest that these c…
So you’re literally taking the piss?! Critically analysing and accounting for ethics (and risk) in interdisciplinary research on children and plastics
Whilst interdisciplinarity has been an integral part of childhood studies, it is less common for social scientists and natural scientists to collaborate in this space – and especially with scholars like environmental (nano)scientists. This paper draws on vignettes from a project about children and plastics, which combined a range of qualitative, artistic and biosampling methods. Focusing on these methodological intersections, the paper critically…
Children Living with 'Sustainable' Urban Architectures
This paper considers the everyday geographies of children living in new largescale urban developments in which multiple forms of 'sustainable' urban architecture are characteristic features. We argue that children's experiences of living with materialities, politics, and technologies of sustainability have too often been marginalised in much chief research on childhood, youth, and sustainability. Drawing on qualitative research with 8-16-year-old…
Children and young people living through the monsoon: Watery entanglements and fluid inequalities
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Expanding the scope of ethical research with and for children and young people – six viewpoints on crisis, cross-cultural working and reciprocity
This Viewpoints piece is a collection of six contributions to a wider Special Issue for Children’s Geographies on ‘Renewed questions of ethics in research with and for children and young people.’ The pieces extend the Issue in two key ways: i) by representing urgent questions of pandemic and crisis related ethics; and ii) extending the geographical and cultural scope of thinking ethically in research with children and young people
Articulating encounters between children and plastics
In the context of global concerns about plastics, this paper sets out and exemplifies a research agenda for articulating children's encounters with plastics. The paper analyses data co-produced with 11-15 year-olds through interviews, app-based research and experimental/arts-led workshops. It moves beyond scholarship in health and environmental sciences, and in environmental education research, to outline a far richer range of ways to conceptuali…
The Greening of Project Finance
Over the past decade, financial institutions have become increasingly conscious of the environmental and social implications of their lending decisions. This is due to widespread environmental and social awareness within mainstream society and the rise of sophisticated nongovernmental organisations. Geography provides an insight into a range of issues related to project finance, particularly with regard to human-environmental relationships, spati…
Água negra (black water) and overwhelming details: For more-than -nexus approaches to global water–energy–food challenges
This paper advances multidisciplinary research, policy, education and activisms which cohere around the concept of the ‘water–energy–food (W–E–F) nexus’ via an evidence-led critique of normative forms of nexus-thinking which draws upon research with 3705 diverse young people's (aged 10–24 years) W–E–F experiences in SE Brazil. We consider how the neat, cool, ostensibly authoritative buzzword style of W–E–F nexus-thinking is radically unsettled – …
The Greening of Project Finance
Over the past decade, financial institutions have become increasingly conscious of the environmental and social implications of their lending decisions. This is due to widespread environmental and social awareness within mainstream society and the rise of sophisticated nongovernmental organisations. Geography provides an insight into a range of issues related to project finance, particularly with regard to human-environmental relationships, spati…
‘Walking … just walking’: How children and young people's everyday pedestrian practices matter
This paper considers the importance of walking for many children and young people's everyday lives, experiences and friendships. Drawing upon research with 175 9- to 16-year-olds living in new urban developments in south-east England, we highlight key characteristics of (daily, taken-for-granted, ostensibly aimless) walking practices, which were of constitutive importance in children and young people's friendships, communities and geographies. Th…
Children's experiences of participating in research: Emotional moments together
This paper reflects upon emotional moments in research with children and young people. In particular, we seek to contribute to the now-extensive literature on emotions in social scientific research practice by: (i) attempting to acknowledge the often-overlooked emotions experienced by children and young people whilst participating in research; (ii) highlighting the complex, multiperspectival nature of emotions in research. We suggest that these c…
Living on a building site: Young people’s experiences of emerging ‘Sustainable Communities’ in England
This paper examines experiences of young people (9–16) who live in new communities that are under construction. In the context of large-scale housing developments, built in England after 2000, it analyses various ways in which young people engage with life ‘on a building site’. From ethnographic research in three unfinished communities, several inter-linked themes became apparent: how young people engaged with building sites in both aesthetic and…
Children Living with 'Sustainable' Urban Architectures
This paper considers the everyday geographies of children living in new largescale urban developments in which multiple forms of 'sustainable' urban architecture are characteristic features. We argue that children's experiences of living with materialities, politics, and technologies of sustainability have too often been marginalised in much chief research on childhood, youth, and sustainability. Drawing on qualitative research with 8-16-year-old…
Negotiating ethical challenges in youth research
This is an accessible and engaging text, addressing a range of ethical challenges which arise when researching with young people across a range of contexts and communities. This neatly edited colle
Re)thinking (re)connection: Young people, “natures” and the water–energy–food nexus in São Paulo State, Brazil
This paper critically analyses pervasive contemporary discourses that call for children and young people to be “reconnected” with nature and natural resources. Simultaneously, it reflects on emerging forms of nexus thinking and policy that seek to identify and govern connections between diverse sectors, and especially water, energy and food. Both of these fields of scholarship are concerned with connections, of different kinds, and at different s…
Complicating childhood-nature relations: Negotiated, spiritual and destructive encounters
The aim of this paper is to complicate predominantly western, dominant discourses of childhood-nature relations. Drawing on an approach inspired by common-world theorisations, we attend to the experiences of children and their families living, learning, working and playing in the goings-on of Indian urban transformation. Based on in-depth, ethnographic research, we build on literature which highlights the messy world of child-nature relations to …
Children and young people living through the monsoon: Watery entanglements and fluid inequalities
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
I’m big, you’re small. I’m right, you’re wrong’: The multiple P/politics of ‘being young’ in new Sustainable Communities
This paper addresses the multiple politics of being young in new Sustainable Communities in the UK, places which were designed and built to foster active participation and inclusiveness. It is in this context that we uncover a series of rules and regulations which inhibit young people's participation in their communities. However, we also draw attention to young people's everyday politics which is broader and deeper than formal structures of part…
Promoting climate change transformation with young people in Brazil: Participatory Action Research Through a Looping Approach
Amid research into the mounting social and environmental threats presented by climate change, young people’s everyday experiences and knowledges are often overlooked, despite being the generation that will be most affected by climate change. We present a ‘looping’ methodology, developed through collaborative work between two distinct but complementary research projects wherein young people in the Paraíba do Sul watershed, São Paulo state, Brazil …
Children and young people as geological agents? Time, scale and multispecies vulnerabilities in the new epoch
In this paper we frame children as geological agents, very much part of epoch and biospherical processes, enfolded in Earth system changes. We draw on the experiences of Indian childhoods in a context where the land, water, animals, children’s bodies and forests are being shaped by a politics of corporate city building. We analyse how children and young people contribute to Earth system changes and consider the everyday, multispecies consequences…
So you’re literally taking the piss?! Critically analysing and accounting for ethics (and risk) in interdisciplinary research on children and plastics
Whilst interdisciplinarity has been an integral part of childhood studies, it is less common for social scientists and natural scientists to collaborate in this space – and especially with scholars like environmental (nano)scientists. This paper draws on vignettes from a project about children and plastics, which combined a range of qualitative, artistic and biosampling methods. Focusing on these methodological intersections, the paper critically…
Geographies of food beyond food: Transfiguring nexus-thinking through encounters with young people in Brazil
Engaging contemporary forms of nexus-thinking with interdisciplinary food scholarship and childhood and youth studies, this paper explores the social, cultural and political implications of young people’s entangled connections with – and beyond – food. The paper draws on a large-scale research project investigating young Brazilians’ relationships with and understandings of the water-energy-food nexus. Based upon ethnographic, mixed-methods resear…
Articulating encounters between children and plastics
In the context of global concerns about plastics, this paper sets out and exemplifies a research agenda for articulating children's encounters with plastics. The paper analyses data co-produced with 11-15 year-olds through interviews, app-based research and experimental/arts-led workshops. It moves beyond scholarship in health and environmental sciences, and in environmental education research, to outline a far richer range of ways to conceptuali…
Expanding the scope of ethical research with and for children and young people – six viewpoints on crisis, cross-cultural working and reciprocity
This Viewpoints piece is a collection of six contributions to a wider Special Issue for Children’s Geographies on ‘Renewed questions of ethics in research with and for children and young people.’ The pieces extend the Issue in two key ways: i) by representing urgent questions of pandemic and crisis related ethics; and ii) extending the geographical and cultural scope of thinking ethically in research with children and young people
Family experiences of urban transformation: Entangled bodies, hopeful imaginations and embodied utopias
We offer an analysis of embodied utopias, the everyday ways in which children, young people and their families experience urban transformation – urban change which has been imagined, designed and planned to be utopian. Lavasa, a private sector, hill city development in the Indian state of Maharashtra, is one such utopian vision. We use the lenses of citizenship, control, precarity and performance to show how participants embody utopia. In sites o…
Água negra (black water) and overwhelming details: For more-than -nexus approaches to global water–energy–food challenges
This paper advances multidisciplinary research, policy, education and activisms which cohere around the concept of the ‘water–energy–food (W–E–F) nexus’ via an evidence-led critique of normative forms of nexus-thinking which draws upon research with 3705 diverse young people's (aged 10–24 years) W–E–F experiences in SE Brazil. We consider how the neat, cool, ostensibly authoritative buzzword style of W–E–F nexus-thinking is radically unsettled – …
Renewed questions of ethics in research with and for children and young people
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)