In her PhD project, "Explore Your Everyday Geography in Class!", Anna studies how everyday geographical experiences of students that are brought into the classroom can be connected to disciplinary geographical knowledge in a powerful way. When students are encouraged to explore their everyday geographies using geographical thought, they generate a better and deeper understanding of their own environment which, as a consequence, becomes (more) meaningful to them. Moreover, they acquire new disciplinary geographical knowledge which fosters a deeper understanding of places and perspectives outside of their personal geographies. The perspectives of the young people form, as much as possible, the starting point for this PhD project. In other words the focus is on doing research with young people instead of on them.

Currently, Anna is working on a large-scale, multidisciplinary scoping review of young people's everyday experiences, using AI-supported methods. This scoping review forms the basis for the rest of her PhD-project, in particular for an educational design that focuses on how to integrate students' everyday geographies into geography lessons. Creative participatory methods, which allow young people to take as much ownership of this educational design research as possible, are central in the creation of this educational design

• dr. Gijs van Campenhout
• dr. Gery Nijenhuis
• prof. dr. Tine Beneker

In this project we aim to explore the issue of refugee youth, public space and integration in Europe. We will answer important questions about the role that arts and cultural initiatives play in the lives of refugee youth and their engagements with public space.We also focus on refugee youth’s stories of home-making, their interaction with arrival structures and their negotiations of inclusion and exclusion in public spaces. In doing so, we consider refugee youth’s migration histories as well as new spaces for urban citizenship, how these emerge in the city and the role these play in European integration. We will work collaboratively and transnationally with our 10 Associate Partners to explore refugee youth’s reworking of public space and to develop more inclusive urban citizenries.

Contribution in the form of analysis of local news coverage on refugee youth.

• Peter Hopkins (Newcastle University)
• Kathrin Horschelmann (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography)
• Mattias de Backer (Liege)