Hajdu, F., van Blerk, L., Ansell, N., Hemsteede, R., Mwathunga, E., Hlabana, T. and Robson, E. et al. (2024) 'Livelihood Trajectories of Rural Young People in Southern Africa: Stuck in Loops?'. Development and Change, 55 (3). pp. 465 - 492. ISSN: 0012-155X Open Access Link

Ansell, N., Froerer, P. and Huijsmans, R. (2022) 'Young People’s Aspirations in an Uncertain World: Taking Control of the Future?'. Sociological Research Online, 27 (4). pp. 795 - 802. ISSN: 1360-7804 Open Access Link

Ansell, N., Mwathunga, E., Hajdu, F., Robson, E., Hlabana, T., van Blerk, L. and Hemsteede, R. et al. (2022) 'Ethical principles, social harm and the economic relations of research: negotiating ethics committee requirements and community expectations in ethnographic research in rural Malawi'. Qualitative Inquiry, 29 (6). pp. 725 - 736. ISSN: 1077-8004 Open Access Link

Ansell, N. and Dungey, C. (2022) 'Schooling young people for the Anthropocene? Land, livestock and learning in rural Lesotho', in Kraftl, P., Kelly, P., Carbajo Padilla, D., Noonan, M., Ribeiro, AS., MacDonald, D. and Black, R. et al. (eds.) Young People and Stories for the Anthropocene. London : Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 10: 1-5381-5364-5. ISBN 13: 978-1-5381-5364-2. Open Access Link

Froerer, P., Ansell, N. and Huijsmans, R. (2022) 'Sacrifice, suffering and hope: education, aspiration and young people’s affective orientations to the future'. Ethnography and Education, 17 (3). pp. 179 - 185. ISSN: 1745-7823 Open Access Link

Ansell, N., Froerer, P., Huijsmans, R., Dungey, C., Dost, A. and Piti. (2020) 'Educating 'surplus population': uses and abuses of aspiration in the rural peripheries of a globalising world'. Fennia - International Journal of Geography, 198 (1-2). pp. 17 - 38. ISSN: 0015-0010 Open Access Link

Huijsmans, R., Ansell, N. and Froerer, P. (2020) 'Introduction: Development, Young People, and the Social Production of Aspirations'. European Journal of Development Research, 33 (1). pp. 1 - 15. ISSN: 0957-8811 Open Access Link

Dungey, CE. and Ansell, N. (2020) '‘I go to school to survive’: Facing physical, moral and economic uncertainties in rural Lesotho'. Children's Geographies, 18 (6). pp. 614 - 628. ISSN: 1473-3285 Open Access Link

Dungey, C. and Ansell, N. (2020) '‘Not all of us can be nurses’: proposing and resisting entrepreneurship education in rural Lesotho'. Sociological Research Online: an electronic journal, 27 (4). pp. 823 - 841. ISSN: 1360-7804 Open Access Link

Ansell, N., Froerer, P. and Huijsmans, R. (2018) 'The representation of occupations in school'. Place of publication: Brunel. Available at: https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Projects/pdf/Education-aspiration/Policy-brief-Representing-Occupations-1.pdf.Open Access Link

Ansell, N., Hajdu, F., van Blerk, L. and Robson, E. (2017) '‘My happiest time’ or ‘my saddest time’? The spatial and generational construction of marriage among youth in rural Malawi and Lesotho'. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 43 (2). pp. 184 - 199. ISSN: 0020-2754 Open Access Link

Ansell, N., Hajdu, F., van Blerk, L. and Robson, E. (2017) 'Fears for the Future: The Incommensurability of Securitisation and In/securities among Southern African Youth'. Social and Cultural Geography, 20 (4). pp. 507 - 533. ISSN: 1464-9365 Open Access Link

Ansell, N., Hajdu, F., van Blerk, L. and Robson, E. (2016) 'AIDS-affected young people’s access to livelihood assets: Exploring ‘new variant famine’ in rural southern Africa'. Journal of Rural Studies, 46. pp. 23 - 34. ISSN: 0743-0167 Open Access Link

Ansell, N. (2016) 'From objects to subjects? Children and youth in development', inThe Palgrave Handbook of International Development. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 487 - 511. ISBN 13: 9781137427236.

Ansell, N. (2015) '‘Once upon a time …’ Orphanhood, childhood studies and the depoliticisation of childhood poverty in southern Africa'. Childhood, 23 (2). pp. 162 - 177. ISSN: 0907-5682 Open Access Link

Ansell, N. (2015) 'Shaping global education: International agendas and governmental power'. International Development Planning Review, 37 (1). pp. 7 - 16. ISSN: 1474-6743 Open Access Link

Wainwright, E., Barker, J., Ansell, N., Buckingham, S., Hemming, P. and Smith, F. (2014) 'Geographers out of place: Institutions, (inter)disciplinarity and identity'. Area, 46 (4). pp. 410 - 417. ISSN: 0004-0894 Open Access Link

Imoh, ATD. and Ansell, N. (2014) 'Children’s lives in an era of children’s rights: The progress of the convention on the rights of the child in Africa'. Routledge.

Ansell, N. (2014) 'Generationing development'. European Journal of Development Research, 26 (2). pp. 283 - 291. ISSN: 0957-8811 Open Access Link

Ansell, N. (2014) 'The convention on the rights of the child: Advancing social justice for African children?', inChildren's Lives in an Era of Children's Rights the Progress of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Africa. pp. 228 - 247.

Ansell, N. (2014) 'Dimensions of global food systems: addressing food security on a world stage'. Geopolitics, 19 (2). pp. 454 - 460. ISSN: 1557-3028 Open Access Link

Ansell, N., Tsoeu, S. and Hajdu, F. (2014) 'Women's changing domestic responsibilities in neoliberal Africa: a relational time-space analysis of Lesotho's garment industry'. Gender, Place and Culture, 22 (3). pp. 363 - 382. ISSN: 0966-369X Open Access Link

Van Blerk, L. and Ansell, N. (2013) 'Participatory feedback and dissemination with and for children: Reflections from research with young migrants in Southern Africa', inDoing Children's Geographies: Methodological Issues in Research with Young People. pp. 146 - 157.

Ansell, N., Hajdu, F., van Blerk, L. and Robson, E. (2013) 'Reconceptualising temporality in young lives: Exploring young people's current and future livelihoods in AIDS-affected southern Africa'. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 39 (3). pp. 387 - 401. ISSN: 0020-2754 Open Access Link

Ansell, N. (2013) 'Challenging empowerment: AIDS-affected South African children and the need for a multi-level relational approach'. Journal of Health Psychology, 19 (1). pp. 22 - 33. ISSN: 1359-1053 Open Access Link

Hajdu, F., Ansell, N., Robson, E. and Van Blerk, L. (2013) 'Rural young people's opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship in globalised southern Africa: The limitations of targeting policies'. International Development Planning Review, 35 (2). pp. 155 - 174. ISSN: 1474-6743 Open Access Link

Ansell, N., Robson, E., Hajdu, F. and van Blerk, L. (2012) 'Learning from young people about their lives: Using participatory methods to research the impacts of AIDS in southern Africa'. Children's Geographies, 10 (2). pp. 169 - 186. ISSN: 1473-3285 Open Access Link

Ansell, N., Hajdu, F., Robson, E., van Blerk, L. and Marandet, E. (2012) 'Youth policy, neoliberalism and transnational governmentality: a case study of Lesotho and Malawi', in Kraftl, P., Horton, J. and Tucker, F. (eds.) Critical Geographies of Childhood and Youth. Policy Pr. pp. 43 - 60. ISBN 10: 1847428460. ISBN 13: 9781847428462.

Ansell, N., van Blerk, L., Robson, E. and Hajdu, F. (2012) 'The spatial construction of young people's livelihoods in rural southern Africa'. Geography, 97 (3). pp. 135 - 140. ISSN: 0016-7487 Open Access Link

Ansell, N. (2012) 'Children, education and sustainable development in Lesotho', inSustainable Development: National Aspirations, Local Implementation. pp. 115 - 135.

Hajdu, F., Ansell, N., Robson, E., Van Blerk, L. and Chipeta, L. (2011) 'Income-generating activities for young people in southern Africa: Exploring AIDS and other constraints'. Geographical Journal, 177 (3). pp. 251 - 263. ISSN: 0016-7398 Open Access Link

Ansell, N. (2011) 'Developments: child, image, nation'. Children's Geographies, 9 (2). pp. 273 - 275. ISSN: 1473-3285

Ansell, N., Robson, E., van Blerk, L. and Hajdu, F. (2011) 'Spaces, times, and critical moments: A relational time - space analysis of the impacts of AIDS on rural youth in Malawi and Lesotho'. Environment and Planning A, 43 (3). pp. 525 - 544. ISSN: 0308-518X Open Access Link

Ansell, N. and van Blerk, L. (2010) 'Joining the conspiracy? Negotiating ethics and emotions in researching (around) AIDS in southern Africa'. Ethics, Place and Environment: a journal of philosophy and geography, 8 (1). pp. 61 - 82. ISSN: 1366-879X

Ansell, N. (2010) 'The discursive construction of childhood and youth in AIDS interventions in Lesotho’s education sector: Beyond global-local dichotomies'. Environment and Planning D – Society and Space, 28 (5). pp. 791 - 810. ISSN: 0263-7758 Open Access Link

Ansell, N. and Smith, F. (2009) 'Young people, care and social wellbeing', in Smith, S., Pain, R., Marston, S. and Jones III, JP. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Social Geographies. Sage Publications Ltd. pp. 351 - 367. ISBN 10: 1412935598. ISBN 13: 978-1412935593.

van Blerk, L. and Ansell, N. (2009) 'Alloparenting in the context of AIDS in southern Africa: complex strategies for care', in Bentley, G. and Mace, R. (eds.) Substitute Parents: Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting Across Human Societies. Oxford : Berghahn Books. pp. 241 - 265. ISBN 10: 1845451066. ISBN 13: 978-1845451066.

Smith, F. and Ansell, N. (2009) 'Children/Childhood', in Kitchen, R. and Thrift, N. (eds.) International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. Elsevier. pp. 58 - 64. ISBN 10: 0-08-044911-5. ISBN 13: 978-0-08-044910-4.

Ansell, N. (2009) 'Producing interventions for AIDS-affected young people in Lesotho's schools: Scalar relations and power differentials'. Geoforum, 40 (4). pp. 675 - 685. ISSN: 0016-7185 Open Access Link

Ansell, N., Robson, E., Hajdu, F., van Blerk, L. and Chipeta, L. (2009) 'The new variant famine hypothesis: moving beyond the household in exploring links between AIDS and food insecurity in southern Africa'. Progress in Development Studies, 9 (3). pp. 187 - 207. ISSN: 1464-9934 Open Access Link

Ansell, N. (2009) 'Childhood and the politics of scale: descaling children's geographies?'. Progress in Human Geography, 33 (2). pp. 190 - 209. ISSN: 0309-1325 Open Access Link

Ansell, N. (2009) 'Embodied learning: responding to AIDS in Lesotho’s education sector'. Children's Geographies, 7 (1). pp. 21 - 36. ISSN: 1473-3285 Open Access Link

Smith, F. and Ansell, N. (2009) 'Children/childhood', in Kitchen, R. and Thrift, N. (eds.) International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. Elsevier. pp. 58 - 64.

Hadju, F., Ansell, N., Robson, E., van Blerk, L. and Chipeta, L. (2009) 'Socio-economic causes of food insecurity in Malawi'. Society of Malawi Journal, 62 (2). pp. 6 - 18.Open Access Link

Ansell, N. (2008) 'Substituting for families? Schools and social reproduction in AIDS-affected Lesotho'. Antipode, 40 (5). pp. 802 - 824. ISSN: 0066-4812 Open Access Link

van Blerk, L., Barker, J., Ansell, N., Smith, F. and Kesby, M. (2008) 'Researching children’s geographies', in van Blerk, L. and Kesby, M. (eds.) Doing children’s geographies: Methodological issues in research with young people. Routledge. pp. 1 - 8. ISBN 13: 978-0-415-44820-8.

Kesby, M., Ansell, N., van Blerk, L., Barker, J. and Smith, F. (2008) 'Moving forward: Contributions to methodological innovation', in van Blerk, L. and Kesby, M. (eds.) Doing children’s geographies: Methodological issues in research with young people. Routledge. pp. 213 - 222. ISBN 13: 978-0-415-44820-8.

van Blerk, L., Ansell, N., Robson, E., Hadju, F. and Chipeta, L. (2008) 'Youth, AIDS and rural livelihoods in southern Africa'. Geography Compass, 2 (3). pp. 709 - 727. ISSN: 1749-8198 Open Access Link

Wainwright, E. and Ansell, N. (2008) 'Geographies of sports development: The role of space and place', in Girginov, V. (ed.) Management of Sports Development. London : Elsevier. pp. 183 - 200. ISBN 10: 075068562X. ISBN 13: 9780750685627. Open Access Link

Wainwright, E. and Ansell, N. (2008) 'Geographies of sports development: the role of space and place', in Girginov, V. (ed.) Management of Sports Development. Elsevier. pp. 183 - 200. ISBN 10: 0-7506-8562-X. ISBN 13: 978-0-7506-8562-7. Open Access Link