Carrie Paechter

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August 3, 2026

Britain’s quarter century: shrinking families, ethnic tensions and queer winners and losers

Athina Vlachantoni, University of Southampton; Carrie Paechter, Nottingham Trent University; Jane Falkingham, University of Southampton; Maria Evandrou, University of Southampton; Michael Skey, Loughborough University; Rob McNeil, University of Oxford, and Rory Fitzgerald, City St George's, University of London

The changing face of demographics, immigration, social attitudes and LGBTQ+ politics.

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April 17, 2026

Michael Amess, University of Birmingham; Ailish Kate Brassil, University College Cork; Andrew McInnes, Edge Hill University; Carrie Paechter, Nottingham Trent University; Joanne Bowser-Angermann, Anglia Ruskin University; Karen Sands-OConnor, University of Sheffield; Newcastle University; Roberta Garrett, University of East London, and Sophie King-Hill, University of Birmingham

Battling raging hormones and learning to navigate the worlds they live in, these literary teens reflect real life.

Sky Brown competes for Team GB at the Tokyo Olympics. EPA-EFE/Fazry Ismail

August 1, 2024

Carrie Paechter, Nottingham Trent University and Michael Keenan, Nottingham Trent University

Because it is still assumed that young women with skateboards are ‘posers’ rather than skaters, they have to perform in order to prove themselves.

Schools need to do their homework too to be inclusive for LGBTQI families. Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock

September 13, 2018

Carrie Paechter, Nottingham Trent University and Anna Carlile, Goldsmiths, University of London

Schools don’t always know how to support LGBTQI+ parented families. Here are some suggestions for how they can.

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November 23, 2017

Carrie Paechter, Nottingham Trent University

Children are often the ones who decide what’s ‘right’ and ‘wrong’.