Doing Transitions in the Life Course: Processes and Practices

Barbara Stauber is Professor for Educational Science in the sub-discipline of Social pedagogy at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany. She is one of two coordinators of the collaborative PhD programme Doing Transitions at Goethe University of Frankfurt and University of Tübingen. She has published on youth and young adults, transitions in the life course (especially school to work transitions and transitions into parenthood), and on (riskful) youth cultural practices – both nationally and internationally.

Andreas Walther is Professor for Educational Science, Social Pedagogy and Youth Welfare and Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is Director of the research unit Education and Coping in the Life Course and one of two coordinators of the collaborative PhD programme Doing Transitions at Goethe University of Frankfurt and University of Tübingen. He has published on youth and young adults, transitions in the life course (especially school to work transitions), and on youth participation both nationally and internationally.

Richard A. Settersten, Jr., is University Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Oregon State University, USA, where he also served as head of the School of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences and founding director of the Hallie E. Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families. A specialist in life transitions, Settersten works flexibly across different life phases and disciplines. He has played leadership roles in the American Sociological Association and the Gerontological Society of America and has received numerous awards for his research, teaching, and service.