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Student empowerment in the teaching of race equality in Higher Education

Publication: July 2018
David Woodger and Susan Westman explore issues of race and racism in Higher Education...

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How does an international student influence youth work policy in Wales and England?

Publication: July 2018
Ken Ebihara is an international youth and community student studying in Wales. He offers his perspective on youth work policies in Wales and England and suggests ways in which international students can influence both policy and practice....

A critical analysis of informal youth diversion policy in the Republic of Ireland

Publication: June 2018
Katharina Swirak critiques policy related to the Irish Youth Justice Service which is under review and proposes how changes could positively enable practitioners to use a more transformative approach....

Mixing young people, collaborative art-making and work experience placement: lessons learned from the Youth Forum project by The Serpentine Sackler Gallery

Publication: May 2018
Tina Salter shares the wider learning from the evaluation of a participatory arts project....

Managing managerialism - how the 21st Century manager can truly thrive

Publication: May 2018
Hampson and Howell unpick some of the challenges managers of youth services face and posit how best to navigate these in order to ensure that remaining services survive future threats to funding....

Winning a Statutory Youth Service

Publication: May 2018
Time for a new statutory Youth Service. Nicholls describes how the youth service has been demolished in recent years and why he is hopeful that significant changes might be on the horizon....