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Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Sarah Pickard
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
2
Massimo Anelli
Bocconi University
3
Emma K. Lee
Harvard University
4
Ria Bright
University of Waikato
5
Lucas Olmedo
Universidad de Sevilla
6
Clotilde de Maricourt
University of Oxford
7
Emily Widnall
At Bristol
8
Carrie Karsgaard
Cape Breton University
9
Logan Hamley
Whakauae Research (New Zealand)
10
Anthony Miro Born
London School of Economics and Political Science

Rising Stars Papers

1
Mechanisms of school-based peer education interventions to improve young people’s health literacy or health behaviours: A realist-informed systematic review
PLoS ONE|2024
23 cit.
2
Unsettling the university: confronting the colonial foundations of US higher education
Comparative Education|2024
18 cit.
3
Meritocracy from below: dreams, divisions, and the struggle for merit in a stigmatised neighbourhood
City|2025
11 cit.
4
The glue that binds us: The positive relationships between whanaungatanga (belonging), the wellbeing, and identity pride for takatāpui who are trans and non‐binary
Health Promotion Journal of Australia|2024
7 cit.
5
A geographical analysis of social enterprises: the case of Ireland
Social enterprise journal|2024
4 cit.
6
Democracy and planetary politics: Achille Mbembe and futures of digital citizenship education for life
Critical Studies in Education|2024
3 cit.
7
Rural–Urban Features of Social Innovation: An Exploratory Study of Work Integration Social Enterprises in Ireland
Societies|2024
2 cit.
8
The “gift” of Indigenous knowledge and critical, place-based curriculum development through ethical relationality
Curriculum Inquiry|2024
2 cit.
9
Education as a Petro-Pipeline: Beyond the Limits of Education Research in the Face of Climate Change
Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l éducation|2025
2 cit.
10
Auf der Suche nach Grünwald und Grunewald: Zu einer Soziologie der Räume des Reichtums
Berliner Journal für Soziologie|2024
1 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Jimmy Narang
University of California, Berkeley
2
Sanni Jalonen
University of Turku
3
Hannu Lehti
University of Turku
4
Vegard Tveito
University of Oslo
5
Gerrit Wissing
University of the Witwatersrand
6
Sandra Buchler
Goethe University Frankfurt
7
Morgan Maxwell
Advocate Health Care
8
Kanta Dihal
University of Cambridge
9
Elizabeth Davis
University of Toronto
10
Jennifer K. Hellmann
The Ohio State University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Multidimensional Gender Ideologies Across Europe: Evidence From 36 Countries
Gender & Society|2023
72 cit.
2
The biopolitics of pandemics: interview with Ed Cohen
Cultural Studies|2022
11 cit.
3
Vertical transmission of horizontally acquired social information in sticklebacks: implications for transgenerational plasticity
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences|2022
9 cit.
4
Passaged Articular Chondrocytes From the Superficial Zone and Deep Zone Can Regain Zone-Specific Properties After Redifferentiation
The American Journal of Sports Medicine|2024
9 cit.
5
Predator-induced transgenerational plasticity of parental care behaviour in male three-spined stickleback fish across two generations
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences|2024
8 cit.
6
The transgenerational consequences of paternal social isolation and predation exposure in threespined sticklebacks
Journal of Animal Ecology|2024
7 cit.
7
Parental background and daughters’ and sons’ educational outcomes – application of the Trivers-Willard hypothesis
Journal of Biosocial Science|2023
6 cit.
8
Students’ Cultural and Economic Family Background and Duration of University Studies in Finland
European Education|2024
4 cit.
9
The gender achievement gap in grades and standardised tests—what accounts for gender inequality?
Frontiers in Sociology|2024
4 cit.
10
Persistent effects of larval exposure to glyphosate in mangrove rivulus fish
Aquatic Toxicology|2024
3 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Min Zhou
First Institute of Oceanography
2
Johanna Wyn
The University of Melbourne
3
Kate C. McLean
Western Washington University
4
Samantha Parsons
London Social Science
5
Lorna Unwin
University of Leicester
6
Moin Syed
University of Minnesota
7
Peter Bansel
NSW Department of Education
8
David G. Blanchflower
Dartmouth College
9
David B. Grusky
Innovations for Poverty Action
10
Nathaniel Hendren
Impact Technology Development (United States)

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and its Variants
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science|1993
5.1k cit.
2
Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA
Unknown Journal|1999
2.8k cit.
3
What Makes an Entrepreneur?
Journal of Labor Economics|1998
2.4k cit.
4
Narrative Identity
Current Directions in Psychological Science|2013
1.4k cit.
5
Segmented Assimilation: Issues, Controversies, and Recent Research on the New Second Generation
International Migration Review|1997
1.4k cit.
6
Self-employment in OECD countries
Labour Economics|2000
1.2k cit.
7
The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood Exposure Effects*
The Quarterly Journal of Economics|2018
1.1k cit.
8
Growing Up American: The Challenge Confronting Immigrant Children and Children of Immigrants
Annual Review of Sociology|1997
1.1k cit.
9
Neoliberalism and education
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education|2007
902 cit.
10
Revisiting Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Convergencies, Controversies, and Conceptual Advancements <sup/>
International Migration Review|2004
882 cit.

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