Adolescent pathways and responsibilities

Jo Boyden is Professor of International Development and Director of Young Lives at the University of Oxford's Department of International Development. An authority on child development and children's rights, she has worked to understand and improve policies for children in contexts of adversity. Her research has focused on child work, education, children affected by armed conflict and forced migration, childhood poverty, and socio-cultural development.

Frances Winter leads policy work on gender and youth at Young Lives. She has worked on gender, equality and children's rights internationally and in the UK for more than twenty years.
Gina Crivello is an Anthropologist and a Senior Research Officer in the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford where she leads Young Lives qualitative longitudinal research. Her research has focused on children and young people's everyday experiences of poverty, aspirations, migration and mobility, paid and unpaid work and intergenerational relations in transitions to adulthood, including methods and ethics in social research with vulnerable young people. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California.

Patricia Espinoza-Revollo holds a DPhil in International Development and is a Quantitative Research Officer in Young Lives at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on inequality, social stratification and mobility, emerging middle classes, and child and youth development with a focus on gender inequalities. She coordinates Young Lives panel survey design and implementation in four developing countries.