Hayley Douglas
Senior Lecturer in Youth and Community Studies
Hayley is a JNC professionally qualified Youth Worker with 20 years’ experience of working with young people in a variety of settings; including in youth clubs, outreach and detached youth work and work with youth justice and young carers. Hayley uses this experience to inform her teaching on the youth work courses at WU.
Hayley is currently programme leader for the level 7 MA programmes, and teaches on a number of the undergraduate modules also, as well as short courses such as Digital Youth Work, Mentoring and Safeguarding. Hayley is passionate about youth work, and teaching others to work with young people.
Foremost Hayley believes that everyone should have the opportunity to study at University, and that everyone can achieve with hard work, determination and the right support.
Hayley is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and External Examiner on similar courses at DeMontfort University and Cardiff Metropolitan University. In her spare time Hayley currently supports a local church as Safeguarding Officer, and enjoys being outside exploring North Wales with her family and their dog.
Publications
| Year | Publication | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Food for Thought: Young People and Youth Workers’ Perceptions of Food Insecurity and the Youth Work Response, Youth. [DOI] Sarah O’Mahony; Hayley Douglas; Jess Achilleos |
Peer Reviewed Journal |
| 2024 | Pracademia—Role Modelling HyFlex Digital Pedagogies in Youth Work Education, [DOI] Douglas, Hayley; Achilleos, Jess; Washbrook, Yasmin; Robbins, M |
Peer Reviewed Journal |
| 2023 | A joint children and adult approach to safeguarding, Social Work in Wales. [DOI] Hayley Douglas & Helena Barlow |
Book Chapter |
| 2022 | Discovering Discourse Analysis: Uncovering the ‘Hidden’ in youth work research, Methodological approaches to research in youth work: Changing the paradigm, Douglas, Hayley |
Peer Reviewed Journal |
| 2021 | Educating Informal Educators on Issues of Race and Inequality: Raising Critical Consciousness, Identifying Challenges, and Implementing Change in a Youth and Community Work Programme, [DOI] Achilleos, Jess;Douglas, Hayley;Washbrook, Yasmin |
Peer Reviewed Journal |
Programs/ Modules Coordinated
| Title | Subject |
|---|---|
| Professional Supervision | YCW608 |
| Research Project | YCW609 |
| Theorising Youth and Community Work | YCW713 |
| Leading and Managing Professionals | EDM706 |
| Research Methods | YCW508 |
| Working Together To Safeguard Self and Others | YCW413 |
| Critical Pedagogy and Anti-Oppressive Practice | YCW709 |
| Philosophy in Youth and Community Work | YCW710 |
| Professional Placement 2 | YCW711 |
| Digital Youth Work: An introduction to Principles and Practice | YCW418 |
| International Youth Work | YCW505 |
| Research Methodology and Enquiry in the Social Sciences | EDM702 |
| Mentoring: Introduction to Principles and Practice | YCW415 |
| Dissertation | YCW714 |