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In this podcast Russell chats via skype to Mark McFeeters, Lecturer on Ulster University’s Community Youth Work degree, and Lauren McAreavey, a third year undergraduate on the course.
Among other things they discuss:
- how youth work is distinct from other forms of work/contact with young people
- the importance of reflection in youth work
- the value external placements bring to the academic training and learning for trainee youth workers
Mark also explains the motive behind setting up the excellent Critical Voice NI website (@criticalvoiceni) which is a relatively new virtual space promoting and developing youth work research, writing and thinking for Northern Ireland. The community and youth work sectors in the UK and Ireland need more sites like it.
So, here it is: The Community Development Podcast. A podcast dedicated to Community Development practice; to sharing its learning; connecting its practitioners; and promoting its value. With a background in Community Development in Wales, primarily in...
Hot on the heels of the launch of the brand new Carnegie UK Trust report on Turnaround Towns in the UK, Russell is joined by Pippa Coutts, Carnegie’s Policy and Development Manager, to look at the...
On 28 November I had the pleasure of dropping by the Oh What A Year! celebrations that Eden Communities Wales hosted at the award-winning social enterprise Big Moose Coffee Co. A range of projects were in...
I write this en route home to Cardiff from north Wales where I have spent the day with workers on a pair of parallel community-based employability programmes that operate in many Welsh communities: Communities For Work...
I attended an event in a sodden Cardiff yesterday hosted by the city’s Life Sciences Hub/Hwb Gwyddoniaethau Bywyd at which PR agency Claremont were outlining some of their work to around co-production and nudge theory to...
In this podcast Russell is joined by East Belfast-based community development practitioner Jonny Currie. Jonny talks about how the political sclerosis that has seen the suspension of Northern Ireland’s devolved assembly and government executive has affected...
In this episode Russell is joined by Dr Rob Watson from Decentered Media (@DecenteredMedia) to look at, among other things, the role that community media plays in strengthening civil society and providing communities with a voice...
In this podcast Russell chats with Dave Smith from Heritage Quay, Huddersfield University’s archive service and considers community development in an ‘alternative’ context: sporting heritage and rugby league supporters Dave was involved in co-producing the national...
