Sarah Mills

Professor Sarah Mills' research focuses on youth citizenship, informal education and volunteering in both contemporary and historical contexts. She is the author of 'Mapping the Moral Geographies of Education: Character, Citizenship and Values' (2021, Routledge).

Her work has been funded by the ESRC, AHRC and RGS-IBG. Notably, a recent ESRC-funded project on National Citizen Service (NCS) and projects on several British youth movements. She has co-edited two collections on ‘Informal Education, Childhood & Youth’ (2014, Palgrave Macmillan) and ‘Politics, Citizenship and Rights’ (2016, Springer).

She was recently a Co-Investigator on an ESRC/GCRF project on youth volunteering in Uganda led by Northumbria University as well as an ESRC project on children and young people’s experiences of gaming/gambling led by Newcastle University.