Outputs (7)

Pedagogies of discomfort and care: Balancing critical tensions in delivering gender-related violence training to youth practitioners (2021)
Journal Article
Cullen, F., & Whelan, M. (2021). Pedagogies of discomfort and care: Balancing critical tensions in delivering gender-related violence training to youth practitioners. Education Sciences, 11(9), Article 562. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11090562

This reflective paper explores the emotions, ethics, and challenges of facilitating training for youth practitioners to tackle gender-related violence (GRV). This paper draws on insights from a training intervention that emerged from an EU-funded fem... Read More about Pedagogies of discomfort and care: Balancing critical tensions in delivering gender-related violence training to youth practitioners.

Exploring young people’s experience of ending active cancer treatment: When the “little cancer treatment bubble” pops (2021)
Journal Article
Lea, S., Martins, A., Cable, M., Fern, L. A., Morgan, S., Soanes, L., …Taylor, R. M. (2021). Exploring young people’s experience of ending active cancer treatment: When the “little cancer treatment bubble” pops. Cancer Nursing, 44(4), 288-294. https://doi.org/10.1097/NCC.0000000000000798

Background The end of active cancer treatment is described as a stressful period for adolescents and young adults (AYAs). However, research evidence describing the experience of AYAs as they transition from active treatment into follow-up care is sca... Read More about Exploring young people’s experience of ending active cancer treatment: When the “little cancer treatment bubble” pops.

The support and information needs of adolescents and young adults with cancer when active treatment ends (2020)
Journal Article
Lea, S., Martins, A., Fern, L. A., Bassett, M., Cable, M., Doig, G., …Taylor, R. M. (2020). The support and information needs of adolescents and young adults with cancer when active treatment ends. BMC Cancer, 20(1), Article 697. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-020-07197-2

Background: The end of active treatment is a period of high stress for young people with cancer, but limited literature exists about their information and support needs during this phase. This study aimed to understand the needs of young people with... Read More about The support and information needs of adolescents and young adults with cancer when active treatment ends.

Issues experienced and support provided to adolescents and young adults at the end of active treatment for cancer: A rapid review of the literature (2018)
Journal Article
Lea, S., Martins, A., Bassett, M., Cable, M., Doig, G., Fern, L. A., …Taylor, R. M. (2018). Issues experienced and support provided to adolescents and young adults at the end of active treatment for cancer: A rapid review of the literature. European Journal of Cancer Care, 27(6), https://doi.org/10.1111/ecc.12972

Introduction: The end of active treatment is a stressful period for adolescents and young adults (AYA), but little is known about AYA experiences at this time point. The aim was to describe the issues young people experienced and identify interventio... Read More about Issues experienced and support provided to adolescents and young adults at the end of active treatment for cancer: A rapid review of the literature.

Critical street work: The politics of working (in)outside institutions (2018)
Book Chapter
Whelan, M., & Steinkellner, H. (2018). Critical street work: The politics of working (in)outside institutions. In P. Alldred, F. Cullen, K. Edwards, & D. Fusco (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Youth Work Practice. London: Sage

Re-locating detached youth work (2015)
Book Chapter
Whelan, M. (2015). Re-locating detached youth work. In G. Bright (Ed.), Youth Work: Histories, Policy and Contexts. London: Red Globe Press

Detached youth work (2010)
Book Chapter
Whelan, M. (2010). Detached youth work. In What is Youth Work. Exeter: SAGE Publications