Outputs (30)

Generic distinctiveness and the entrepreneurial self: a case study of English Higher Education (2018)
Journal Article
Holdsworth. (2018). Generic distinctiveness and the entrepreneurial self: a case study of English Higher Education. Journal of Youth Studies, 21(9), 1216-1231. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2018.1459524

Young people are increasingly called upon to invest in educational qualifications, experience opportunities and other character forming activities in order to stand out from the crowd. This fetishizing of generic distinctiveness is promoted throughou... Read More about Generic distinctiveness and the entrepreneurial self: a case study of English Higher Education.

Gender differences in teenage alcohol consumption and spatial practices (2017)
Journal Article
Holdsworth. (2017). Gender differences in teenage alcohol consumption and spatial practices. Children's Geographies, 741-753. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2017.1334111

In recent years teenagers have reported a decline in under-age drinking at the same time as their access to public space has been increasingly curtailed. In this paper we explore the spatial practices and drinking behaviours of a group of teenage gir... Read More about Gender differences in teenage alcohol consumption and spatial practices.

Is regular drinking in later life an indicator of good health? Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2016)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, C., Mendonça, M., Pikhart, H., Frisher, M., de Oliveira, C., & Shelton, N. (2016). Is regular drinking in later life an indicator of good health? Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Journal of epidemiology and community health, 70(8), 764-770. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2015-206949

Background Older people who drink have been shown to have better health than those who do not. This might suggest that moderate drinking is beneficial for health, or, as considered here, that older people modify their drinking as their health deterio... Read More about Is regular drinking in later life an indicator of good health? Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

Family Practices, Holiday and the Everyday (2015)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, C., & Hall, S. M. (2015). Family Practices, Holiday and the Everyday. Mobilities, 284-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2014.970374

Holidays are central to the rhythm of everyday family practices and consumption, and are often depicted, within both academic literature and consumer marketing, as a defining moment in contemporary family life. To date, academic accounts of the exper... Read More about Family Practices, Holiday and the Everyday.

Lifecourse transitions, gender and drinking in later life (2015)
Journal Article
Frisher, M., Holdsworth, C., MENDONÇA, M., DE OLIVEIRIA, C., PIKHART, H., & SHELTON, N. (2017). Lifecourse transitions, gender and drinking in later life. Ageing and society, 37(3), 462-494. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X15001178

Older people consume less alcohol than any other adult age group. However, in recent years survey data on alcohol consumption in the United Kingdom have shown that while younger age groups have experienced a decline in alcohol consumption, drinking b... Read More about Lifecourse transitions, gender and drinking in later life.

Is alcohol consumption in older adults associated with poor self-rated health? Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2015)
Journal Article
Frisher, M., Mendonça, M., Shelton, N., Pikhart, H., de Oliveira, C., & Holdsworth, C. (2015). Is alcohol consumption in older adults associated with poor self-rated health? Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. BMC Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1993-x

Background Increases in alcohol related mortality and morbidity have been reported among older people in England over the last decade. There is, however, evidence that drinking is protective for some health conditions. The validity of this evidence... Read More about Is alcohol consumption in older adults associated with poor self-rated health? Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

“Drinking definitely wasn’t something that we’d seen anybody do”: The relevance of childhood experiences of family drinking for parenting strategies of alcohol-socialisation (2015)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, C., Laverty, L., & Robinson, J. (2017). “Drinking definitely wasn’t something that we’d seen anybody do”: The relevance of childhood experiences of family drinking for parenting strategies of alcohol-socialisation. Families, Relationships and Societies, 37-52. https://doi.org/10.1332/204674315X14359059952709

This article considers the significance of family context for intergenerational drinking practices. Socialisation approaches to drinking behaviours assume that people carry forward actions and ideals that are developed in formative settings during ch... Read More about “Drinking definitely wasn’t something that we’d seen anybody do”: The relevance of childhood experiences of family drinking for parenting strategies of alcohol-socialisation.

The cult of experience: standing out from the crowd in an era of austerity (2015)
Journal Article
Holdsworth. (2017). The cult of experience: standing out from the crowd in an era of austerity. Area, 49(3), 296-302. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12201

Faced with uncertain futures associated with precarious/casualised employment or unemployment, young people are increasingly encouraged to invest in practices of distinction that enable them to stand out from the crowd in the pursuit of employability... Read More about The cult of experience: standing out from the crowd in an era of austerity.

Gendered forms of responsibility and control in teenagers' views of alcohol (2015)
Journal Article
Holdsworth. (2015). Gendered forms of responsibility and control in teenagers' views of alcohol. Journal of Youth Studies, 794 - 808. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2014.992325

There has been a shift in the most recent UK Government's Alcohol Strategy (2012) from personal responsibility towards a model of shared responsibility for young people's drinking. On closer examination of the strategy, however, it appears that rathe... Read More about Gendered forms of responsibility and control in teenagers' views of alcohol.

Volunteering, choice and control: a case study of higher education student volunteering (2013)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, C., & Brewis, G. (in press). Volunteering, choice and control: a case study of higher education student volunteering. Journal of Youth Studies, 17(2), 204 - 219. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2013.815702

There has been a step change around youth volunteering in the UK in recent years as this once unheralded and taken for granted activity has moved more centre stage, particularly as a key strand of recent Government initiatives directed towards welfar... Read More about Volunteering, choice and control: a case study of higher education student volunteering.