All Outputs (10)

Trigger warnings – A youth work professional education perspective (2025)
Book Chapter

In recent years, the use of trigger warnings in the higher education classroom have been seized on by right wing commentators as part of a wider confected culture war. Trigger warnings remain a highly contested area of contemporary academic practice... Read More about Trigger warnings – A youth work professional education perspective.

Critical Pedagogies of Discomfort in Practice and Professional Education (2025)
Book

This book explores the scope for discomforting pedagogies within practice and professional education contexts in order to consider the ethical challenges associated with exploring complex and sensitive areas of practice and everyday life.

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Determining domains of practice for youth support co-coordinator work in teenage/young adult cancer care in United Kingdom (2023)
Journal Article

Purpose: Youth support coordinators (YSCs) provide youth-focused psychosocial support to teenagers and young adults (TYA) with cancer, within multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) in National Health Service (NHS) specialist cancer environments. This action... Read More about Determining domains of practice for youth support co-coordinator work in teenage/young adult cancer care in United Kingdom.

Pedagogies of discomfort and care: Balancing critical tensions in delivering gender-related violence training to youth practitioners (2021)
Journal Article

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

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

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

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

Re-locating detached youth work (2015)
Book Chapter

Detached youth work (2010)
Book Chapter