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Vicky Johnson is Professor of Childhood, Youth and Sustainability and Director of the Centre for Living Sustainability. She has over 20 years of experience leading international teams as a Principal Investigator, complimented by her entrepreneurship and multi-stakeholder engagement in the international NGO sector. Research interests include understanding how marginalised people can be supported as agents of change in rapidly changing environmental, political and cultural contexts. She has developed and published papers on a 'change-scape' approach. This supports inclusive, gender sensitive and child and youth centred research that takes into account intergenerational dynamics in communities and their changing landscapes.
Vicky's skills include carrying out creative and participatory action research processes, large-scale qualitative research, linking theory to policy and practice, and gaining research impact through working in partnership with local researchers, service providers and policy makers. Research training and mentoring includes programmes of knowledge exchange across the global North and South.
Recent research projects include: Mapping Child Rights in Community Driven Development (Wellspring Philanthropic Foundation); Youth Uncertainty Rights (YOUR) World Research with marginalised youth in Ethiopia and Nepal (ESRC-DFID's Poverty Alleviation Fund); Engaging Young Children in Research (across global contexts for the Bernard van Leer Foundation); Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health, with case studies in Africa, Asia and Latin America (IPPF); Education in informal settlements in Nairobi (UN Girls' Education Initiative). She has also led action research processes funded by local and regional authorities and regenerational programmes across the UK.
Lecturing includes: childhood, youth and global development; children's geographies and the anthropology and sociology of childhood; child and human rights; international education; community animation and development; and research methodologies. PhD completions investigated: the local environmental knowledge of fishers in the UK, and migration, education and childhood in Northern Ethiopia. She currently supervises PhD students working on: resilience in the earthquake region of Nepal; decision-making in migration in a drought prone area of Ethiopia; and philanthropic tourism in sub-Saharan Africa.
Professor Johnson is an adviser on collaborative programmes of research including: the Research Expert Forum for the Consortium for Street children, an IFAD funded research programme on rural youth opportunities and DFID funded consortia on harmful children's work in sub-Saharan Africa. She is an Honorary Associate for the Institute of Development Studies and on the Board of the childhood research stream of the European Sociological Association and the Pesticide Action Network.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Central Lancashire
1 Sep 2007 → 1 Sep 2010
Award Date: 1 Apr 2011
Master of Environmental Science
1 Sep 1987 → 1 Sep 1988
Award Date: 1 Nov 1988
Bachelor of Science, University of Sussex
1 Sep 1982 → 1 Sep 1985
Award Date: 1 Aug 1985
Keywords
- Society, Identity, Landscape and Knowledge
- H Social Sciences (General)
- G Geography (General)
- HM Sociology
- GN Anthropology
- L Education (General)
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Projects
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The Liminal Zone: A Metaphor for the Interface between Teaching and Creative Practice
18/01/21 → 31/03/22
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Marginalised youth perspectives and positive uncertainty in Addis Ababa and Kathmandu
Johnson, V. & West, A., 28 Apr 2021, Growing Up and Getting By: International Perspectives on Childhood and Youth in Hard Times. Policy Press, p. 157-174 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Landscapes of Rural Youth Opportunity
Sumberg, J., Chamberlin, J., Flynn, J., Glover, D. & Johnson, V., 1 Feb 2020, In: SSRN Electronic Journal. p. 1-55 55 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Learning from a Living Archive: Rejuvenating Child and Youth Rights and Participation
Johnson, V., Lewin, T. & Cannon, M., 14 Dec 2020, Institute of Development Studies. 86 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Landscapes of rural youth opportunities: Paper for IFAD's 2019 Rural Development Report
Sumberg, J., Chamberlin, J., Flynn, J., Glover, D. & Johnson, V., 2019, 42 p.Research output: Working paper › Discussion paper
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Layered and Linking Research Partnerships: Learning from YOUR World Research in Ethiopia and Nepal
Johnson, V., Admasu, A., Church, A., Healey, J. & Mathema, S., 1 May 2019, In: IDS Bulletin. 50, 1, p. 79-98 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cases of children’s participation in global contexts
Johnson, V. & West, A., 22 Nov 2018, Children’s Participation in Global Contexts. Routledge, p. 69-87 19 p. (Children’s Participation in Global Contexts).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Children’s identities and capacities in process
Johnson, V. & West, A., 22 Nov 2018, Children’s Participation in Global Contexts. Routledge, p. 131-140 10 p. (Children’s Participation in Global Contexts).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Thousands of pounds up for grabs as business competition kicks off
24/11/21
1 item of Media coverage
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Entries open for University of the Highlands and Islands business competition
23/11/21
2 items of Media coverage
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Entries are now open for the 2022 University of the Highlands and Islands business competition
23/11/21
1 item of Media coverage
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Entries Open for The 2022 University of the Highlands and Islands Business Competition
23/11/21
1 item of Media coverage
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Call for funding to quell mental perfect storm'
24/09/21
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