Senior Lecturer at St. Marys University

Fin Cullen is a qualified Youth and Community worker and worked for over a decade across the UK in a variety of contexts including youth homeless provision, residential settings, day centres, school-based youth services, centre-based, outreach,...

Professor in youth and community education, professor in critical pedagogy and national officer at Birmingham City University

Operating at the nexus of practice, theory and policy making, I have worked in the multiple disadvantage, homeless and youth and community work sectors and concurrently within higher education for over 35 years My overall aim is to develop an...

Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Studies at University of Bedfordshire

Tina is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Sciences at the University of Bedfordshire. She is course coordinator for the MA in Childhood, Youth and Family Studies, which also has a JNC youth work pathway. Tina has been teaching youth and...

NE Youth

Gemma is Deputy Chief Executive of the regional youth organisation NE Youth and is also working towards a PhD in Leadership and Human Resource Management at Northumbria University Business School. Her research is focussed on the professional...

Dr Mike Wragg is a Senior Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Childhood Development & Playwork programme at Leeds Beckett University. His current research centres on the application of play and playwork to people living with advanced dementia in care...

Leeds Beckett University

Dr. Alexandra Long is the Course Director for a number Undergraduate and Postgraduate programs at Leeds Beckett University. With over 20 years of experience in playwork, she has managed various local government play projects across England. Her...