Children, Youth and Families

Children, Youth and Families

The Children, Youth and Families Pathway is offered at Durham, Newcastle, Queen’s University Belfast and Teesside.

Pathway statement to follow shortly – please check back soon.

Catherine McNamee
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School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work

Ewan Ingleby
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School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Law

Alan McKinstry: “Criminalised victims: Recognising, understanding, and challenging modern slavery and child criminal exploitation amongst young people from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and Belfast”

Cait Jobson: “Domestic Violence and Abuse Help-seeking for LGBTQ+ Young people: A Participatory Approach”

Emma Hodgson: “Understanding young people’s online sexual behaviour, nature, cases, context and consequences.”

Erin-Beth Nugent: “Making Professionals: Training regimes, everyday practices, and the experiences and perspectives of boys and their families in professional football academies”

Esther Outram: “Why is no one talking about Disability? An Investigation into Grammar Schools and the disabling barriers experienced by dyslexic pupils”

Evie Heard: “Education in ASEAN: A Children’s Rights Analysis”

Gary Reynolds: “County lines and the criminal exploitation of children and young people: An exploratory and critical study of the system response to child criminal exploitation and the local authority care provision for children and young people in Cumbria”

Helen Woolley: “Securing a Sense of Safety for Adopted Children in Middle Childhood (7-12 years)”

Jack Simmonds: “The Young LGBT+ Lived Experience and Relationship with the Police Service in Greater Manchester”

James Farley: ‘Keeping Families Together’ and Reducing Orphanage Placement in Cambodia: A Problem Structuring Approach to Family Preservation and Prevention of Family Separation Policy & Practice

Janelle Rabe: “Step up, Speak Out: A participatory action research project on young people’s views of sexual violence and its prevention”

Joanne Walker-McGowan: “Working with rather than for partner organisations: re-defining the role of youth work in safeguarding young people from extra-familial harm.”

Lynne Cairns: “Risk and Protection? The Lived Experience of Young Men with Harmful Sexual Behaviours: Towards a Contextual Understanding”

Melisa Maida: “Negotiating Belonging: The intergenerational experiences of young refugees and asylum-seekers and their families in Tyneside”

Molly Manister: “Agent of support or agent of surveillance? The expectations on children’s social care professionals in the prevention of youth radicalisation”

Nouhad Abou Melhem: “Exploring key drivers of individual differences in the language development of 3 year-old Lebanese children”

Wendy Gill: “Do traditional youth work organisations hold the key to sustainability for 21st century youth provision? Lessons form The Guide Association”

Xin Fan: “School choice fever: Parents’ perceptions and practices in rural China”