Samantha Wilkinson is a senior lecturer in Childhood, Youth and Education Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. Samantha has written extensively of a range of themes including children and young people’s geographies and mobilities; young men’s performances of masculinities; home care for people with dementia; animal geographies; and home sharing network Airbnb. Through the research she conducts she uses innovative methodological approaches, including: joint ethnography; diaries; drawing elicitation interviews; mobile phone methods; and (auto)ethnography.