Discourse analysis on research outputs can reveal things about the research but also for the researchers themselves, in the sense of the scientific discourse that they use. In the framework of the assessment of the YOUTHShare Programme (which is a part of the Labour Geography Research Laboratory), a brief discourse analysis was conducted on the research outputs-publications of the YOUTHShare project by Georgios Chatzichristos. The analysis indicated two valuable insights:
- Around the core themes of the project, which have been well-known -Youth, NEETs, European, Policy, Labour among others- secondary themes and discourses emerged such as: Women, Sustainable, Education, Resilience. These emerged themes indicate that the long-term research has been genuine and multifaceted.
- While the team has always had a strong geographical orientation, drawing on the Geographical Political Economy and Labour Geography frameworks, the central themes that emerged in the discourse analysis go beyond the strict boundaries of the scientific discourse of geography; Youth, NEETs, Politics, Labour, Economics are all terms that have a broader scope. This suggests the interdisciplinary nature of the work and its broad appeal across different disciplines.
