The `Inventing Adulthoods' study seeks to document transitions to adulthood reported by over
100 young people living in five contrasting communities in the UK over a five-year period. …

… QLLR is distinguished by the deliberate way in which temporality is designed into the
research process making change a central focus of analytic attention (Thomson et al. 2003:185) …

What does motherhood mean today? Drawing on interviews with new mothers and
intergenerational chains of women in the same family, this exciting and timely book documents the …

Initial analysis of young women’s sexual beliefs, practices and relationships led us to
reconsider ‘the organising categories’ with which we think about heterosexuality. Our story …

This paper describes the development of ‘case histories’ from a qualitative longitudinal data
set that followed 100 young people's transitions to adulthood over a ten year period. The …

The process of becoming an adult in contemporary times is fragmented and unequal,
shaped by chance, choice and timing." Unfolding lives" presents a unique approach to …

<p>This paper describes a UK based longitudinal qualitative study following approximately
100 young people over 9 years. It provides an overview of the research design, methods of …

Traditionally adulthood and citizenship have been synonymous. Yet adulthood is changing.
In this paper we explore how young people's evolving understandings of adulthood may …

Longitudinal social research offers unique insights into process, change and continuity over
time in phenomena ranging from individuals, families and institutions to societies. It helps to …

Background There are concerns that COVID-19 mitigation measures, including the ‘lockdown’,
may have unintended health consequences. We examined trends in mental health and …