Elias Le Grand

Since 2023 I am director of the doctoral studies programme at the department. I primarily teach on the master's and doctoral programmes in Child and Youth Studies. On the undergraduate level, I teach in the Teacher Education Programme for Primary School, Specialising in School-Age Education and Care. Areas of teaching include childhood studies, social relations/divisions in school contexts, research methodology and the philosophy of social research. 

My research is in the intersections between youth culture, social and spatial inequality, generational processes, and moral and aesthetic classifications. A large part of my research has focused on the formation of social figures and their contestations in relation to various contexts and frames, including social class, moralisation processes, cultural taste and generational oppositions. Recent research addresses communality and socio-symbolic struggles in cultural fields of ‘alternative’ food and drink, including the field of natural wine. I am currently researching the social conditions, representations, experiences and aspirations among young adults regarding their residential status.  The project focuses on the situation for those young adults who live at home with their parents.