Youth & Community

The Youth and Community team at Wrexham work at the heart of today’s crucial issues by aiding young people’s development and co-creating and collaborating with marginalised communities.

Youth Work research is a quietly burning ember. We’re opening up honest conversations about race equality, reflecting on Youth Work teaching and practice, examining the enormous benefits of International Youth Work, and critically considering how adverse childhood experiences shape Youth Work practice, all through rarely adopted methodological approaches, such as the Voice-Centred Relational approach and Contextual Analyses. Our research mirrors the degrees we offer, which are professionally endorsed by national Occupational and Professional standards in the area.

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Recent Publications
O' Mahony, S., Douglas, H., & Achilleos, J. (2024). Food for Thought: Young People and Youth Workers’ Perceptions of Food Insecurity and the Youth Work Response, Youth.

Douglas, H., Achilleos, J., Washbrook, Y., & Robbins, M. (2024). Pracademia—Role Modelling HyFlex Digital Pedagogies in Youth Work Education. Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 1-19.

Robbins, M., Welton, N., Williams, D., Leigh, R., Cook, L., O'Connor, D., & Drury, A. (2024). Youth Work Funding Review: Phase 2 March 2024.

Welton, N., Williams, D., Robbins, M., Leigh, R., Cook, L., O'Connor, D., & Drury, A. (2023). Feasibility Study Youth Work Funding Review: Phase 1, Feasibility Study Report.

Washbrook, Y., Bloomfield, A. and Taylor, C. (2023) Engaging in Race Equity: Navigating Power and Privilege in Higher Education, in Advance HE News + Views.

Achilleos, J. (2023) Using Radical Pedagogy to Promote Social Justice in Higher Education in Court, D., et al (ed.) Social Justice in Multicultural Settings Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 176-194

Douglas, H. & Barlow, H. (2023). A Joint Children and Adult Approach to Safeguarding in Social Work in Wales.

Stewart, S. & Robbins, R. (2022). A listening guide to youth work, Methodological approaches to research in youth work: Changing the paradigm, Youth Voice Journal, pp. 32-41. ISBN (ONLINE): 978-1-911634-42-3

Washbrook, Y. & Beacon, E. (2022) You-the Voice: Using auto-ethnographic and collaborative auto-ethnographic methodologies in Youth and Community Work Methodological approaches to research in youth work: Changing the paradigm, Youth Voice Journal, pp. 51-63. ISBN (ONLINE): 978-1-911634-42-3. https://www.rj4allpublications.com/yvj-special-issue-methodological-approaches-to-research-in-youth-work/

Achilleos, J., Douglas, H. and Washbrook, Y. (2022) ‘Educating Informal Educators on Issues of Race and Inequality: Raising Critical Consciousness, Identifying Challenges, and Implementing Change in a Youth and Community Work Programme’ in Educating informal Educators, Education Science (2022) (Reprint). Vol 11(8). pp 75-96.

Douglas, H. (2022) Discovering Discourse Analysis: Uncovering the ‘Hidden’ in youth work research, Methodological approaches to research in youth work: Changing the paradigm. Youth Voice Journal. pp. 8-21. ISSN 978-1-911634-42-3