Youth Participation and Learning Critical Perspectives on Citizenship Practices in Europe

Zulmir Bečević, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research is about young people's living conditions in a broad sense, with specific focus on issues relating to citizenship and rights, participation and exclusion, and social, economic, and racial inequalities. His most recent book publication is Children and Young People in Vulnerable Life Situations - Perspectives from Research and Practice (Liber, 2020, together with Linnéa Bruno. 

Björn Andersson has a PhD in Social Work and is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Much of his research concerns the social life of young people, especially the formation of relations in urban public space and youth participation. He has written on outreach approaches in social work and some of his latest research concerns social sustainability in urban planning as in his recent book Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities (Routledge, 2021, with Sten Gromark)