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Perspectives on youth-related areas from the MCYS team
Tuesday, 31st August 2021
In May 2021, MCYS organised a conference on 'Youth Language and Change' as part of the International Conference on Youth Languages series which takes place every two years.
Monday, 19th July 2021
Chloé Germaine, Paul Wake and Ben Bowman have secured 12,413 Euros from Game in Lab and the Libellund Foundation for their project, ‘Play and the Environment: Games Imagining the Future’.
Monday, 19th July 2021
In this post, Ben discusses his recent article: 'Missing an opportunity? The limited civic imagination of Votes at 16'.
Thursday, 4th February 2021
Young people all over the world are responding to the climate crisis. Many are engaging with political institutions and processes. Others are leading protests. Their action is diverse, imaginative, and creative. Young people involved in the ‘Fridays for the Future’ school strikes, for example, are not only making policy demands; they are communicating their ideas about possible future worlds. Bringing the study of youth politics together with the study of youth literature, Dr Benjamin Bowman and Dr Chloé Germaine Buckley of the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University are investigating how young people’s politics about the climate crisis is bound up with literature, storytelling and young people’s own creative self-expression.
Tuesday, 8th December 2020
Since 2015, as part of the Greater Manchester Youth Justice University Partnership (GMYJUP), MCYS has been working on a pioneering research project with each of the 10 Greater Manchester Youth Justice Services. This has resulted in the co-production, with young people, of a framework of principles termed Participatory Youth Practice (PYP).
Wednesday, 25th November 2020
Ben Bowman describes his recent publication looking at young people's climate activism.
Thursday, 7th May 2020
An article by Chloé Germaine Buckley, originally written for The National Association for Teaching of English (NATE).
Monday, 9th March 2020
John Bellamy discusses his new project which begins to look at issues around language in relation to young people involved in the justice system.
Wednesday, 30th October 2019
MCYS's Elsie Whittington recently co-organised a collaborative event to mark the International Day of the Girl. Here, Elsie reflects on the day.
Monday, 30th September 2019
In June and July this year, 2nd year Sociology/Criminology student Caitlin Couldwell joined MCYS on an undergraduate scholarship placement to contribute to the Young Manchester Evaluation project. This evaluation uses a mixed methods approach, including Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR), to establish the effectiveness of the Young Manchester charity’s Youth and Play Fund. In this MCYS Perspectives piece, Caitlin reflects on her experience.
Thursday, 11th July 2019
Throughout June and July, MCYS academics Alex Wheatle and Chloé Germaine Buckley have been dropping into secondary schools in Greater Manchester to chat with young people about books.
Thursday, 27th June 2019
Refugee background and culturally diverse young people should have a voice in the arts programmes that seek to engage them. A new resource offers youth-generated guidance for organisations and artists.
Monday, 3rd June 2019
On the 24th May 2019, the Youth Justice Board published its strategic plan for 2019-2022. Evident within the plan is a commitment to expanding trauma-informed practice among local services in England and Wales with a view to improving the resettlement outcomes of children leaving custody. In this piece, Paul Gray critiques this trauma-informed focus, arguing that the very nature of trauma is such that children are often reluctant or unwilling to disclose it. This lack of disclosure may ultimately limit the efficacy of a trauma-informed approach.
Tuesday, 30th April 2019
Anna describes the trip she and Dr Haridhan Goswami took to Bangladesh to convene an early meeting of the newly established South Asian Research Network for Childhood and Youth Studies.
Tuesday, 2nd April 2019
Is there a youthquake in the Parties of the Left in the UK and USA? Nearly two years ago the 2017 General Election saw a surge in electoral registration, in young votes and in public interest in young voters and the issues that motivated them. The election, which was called by many the Youthquake election, had many people asking the question: are young people changing politics on the Left?