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November 4th 2024
10:30am - 1:30pm

ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Postgraduate Centre
ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Square
Luton
LU1 3JU

This event is aimed at youth work practitioners from a range of settings including statutory, voluntary, faith, community and third sector organisations, to come together and celebrate youth work taking place across the county. If you would like to have a stand or area in the venue to represent your youth work organisation, please contact tina.salter@beds.ac.uk to reserve an exhibition space.

We will also be exploring the future of youth work in light of potential changes to the political landscape this year, from a local and national perspective. Lisa Hudson will be presenting the work being done to make Luton a child-friendly town. Other presenters to be confirmed.

Refreshments and lunch provided.

Agenda

• 09:30 - 10:00 -ÌýRegistration
  Please make your way to the ground floor of the Postgraduate Centre, Luton Campus, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ to register. Tea/Coffee can be purchased in the campus restaurant opposite the Postgraduate Centre.
  
  
• 10:00 - 11:30 -ÌýSession 1: Good youth work practice across our region
  
  
• 11:30 - 11:45 -ÌýCoffee break
  
  
• 11:45 - 13:00 -ÌýSession 2: What should youth work look like in the future?
  
  
• 13:00 - 14:00 -ÌýLunch and the opportunity to network
  
  

November 15th 2024
9:30am - 5:00pm

ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Postgraduate Centre
ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Square
Luton
LU1 3JU

Join us for an inspiring one-day symposium focused on interdisciplinary knowledge exchange, where we will interrogate creative research within areas of activism, community development, participation, practice-based research in teaching, technology, arts and heritage. Save your seat and come and share your creative methods or learn about others that make an invaluable contribution to research.

Agenda

• 09:30 - 10:00 -ÌýNetworking Coffee and Registration
  
  
• 10:00 - 10:15 -ÌýWelcome - Professor Andrew Church
  
  
• 10:15 - 11:00 - Professor Dawn Mannay, Cardiff ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½: ‘It’s written in the Sand"
  
  In this talk, I reflect on some of my engagements with creative research methods, thinking through aspects of design, data production, analysis and dissemination. There is a focus on ‘sandboxing’, drawing on my work with care-experienced children, mothers and mature students, as well as a range of international sandboxing research. The sandboxing method was developed from the tradition of play therapy, specifically the World Technique, where children create three dimensional scenes, pictures, or abstract designs with a range of miniature, realistic and fantasy, figures and everyday objects in a tray filled with sand. We adapted this therapeutic practice, to create as a distinctive tool to support qualitative data generation, which we named sandboxing. The technique has been used with children, young people, and adults who create sand scenes and discuss their metaphorical meanings in elicitation interviews.
  
  
• 11:00 - 12:30 - Panel 1. Dr Lisa McKenzie; Dr Sireita Mullings; Dr Lena Opfermann; Derek Wilmer
  
  Dr Lisa Mckenzie - Community Storytelling; Dr Sireita Mullings - Principles and Elements of design: Ethnography of Backway; Derek Wilmer - Where do ideas come from? and why we shall never know. Dr Lena Opfermann - Embodied Knowledge Production: Epistemology and Practice
  
  
• 12:30 - 13:15 - Lunch
  
  
• 13:15 - 14:00 - Workshops in breakout spaces
  
  Break Out Room 1 - Collage for Creative Thinking in Research; Dr Roma Thomas
  
  This workshop invites participants to use the medium of collage as a creative tool for developing your thinking in research. Collage (cutting, pasting and creating compositions from paper and other materials) can provide creative tools which allow us to expanding our thinking and express ourselves more freely than conventional written methods. Using the example of thinking through your positionality in research, this workshop will introduce you to collage as a creative tool to channel your thinking. Using a variety of paper materials, you will create a visual representation of your positionality in research. What to bring: Please feel free to bring magazines, papers, cards, photos and other paper materials that you are happy to cut up. If you bring photos, do bring copies rather than originals.
  
  Break Out Room 2 - Harnessing Mini Zines as a Tool for Creativity and Engagement; Dr Hoda Wassif & Dr Maged Zakher
  
  Harnessing Mini Zines as a Tool for Creativity and Engagement Workshop. a tool for creative expression and classroom engagement. Over the course of 45 minutes, attendees will discover practical strategies for integrating mini zines into their classroom environment, harnessing their potential to facilitate reflection, enhance dialogue, and support a creative classroom dynamics. Workshop Objectives: - Introduce participants to the concept of mini zines and their versatile applications in educational contexts. - Demonstrate how mini zines can serve as powerful tools for promoting reflection and creativity among learners. - Provide techniques for utilising mini zines to enhance classroom engagement and foster active participation across diverse learning environments. A practical, hands on workshop; participants will have the skills, rationale and application techniques for how to effectively use mini zines in education settings.
  
  Breakout Room 3 - Sandboxing; Dr Joanne Hill
  
  Sandboxing: digging around for meaning in participatory creative methods ‘Sandboxing’ provides an opportunity for participants to create three-dimensional scenes in sand-trays, employing miniature figures and everyday objects (Mannay, Staples and Edwards,. 2017). Sand and mini figures offer a tactile way for participants to respond to a prompt, build/rebuild, and tell a story about the world they have created in miniature. Sand is furthermore a natural material and may have especial use for exploring engagement with the natural world, nature, or the outdoors. This workshop will invite participants to engage with sand trays, mini figures and natural objects, to play and share ideas for the uses of sandboxing (and supporting elicitation techniques) in their field of research.
  
  
• 14:00 - 14:45 - International Panel: Methods from across the water
  Gleb Raikov; Juan-Carlos Sandoval-Rivera; Sireita Mullings; Njaka Chinelo
  
  You will hear the work of Raikov, Gleb (Centre Pierre Naville, Paris-Saclay ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½) whos recent presentation was titled - Apprehending visual politics in filmic research on the supportive care in the field of cancerology; Sandocal-Rivera, Juan-Carlos (Universidad Veracruzana).Explored environmental education through photography-based methodologies: challenges and paradoxes in achieving the SDG’s in Mexico along with Njaka, Chinelo (Goldsmiths College, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ of London), who in 2024 presented her paper titled, Piecing the Archives: Recovering Hidden Black Quilting Narratives in the Black Atlantic. And Halasz, Katalin (Brunel ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ London), Hunter, Shona (Leeds Beckett ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½). You Are Invited.
  
  
• 14:45 - 15:30 - World Café - Dr Adrienne Sharples & James Andrew
  
  
• 15:30 - 15:45 - Break
  
  
• 15:45 - 16:30 - Panel 2. Associate Professor Camille Warrington; Dr Claire Cody; Dr Tom Hoctor
  
  Associate Professor Camille Warrington - Participatory visual and creative methods when working with vulnerable people Dr Claire Cody - Using comedy with young survivors of sexual violence in Albania, Serbia and Uganda Dr Tom Hoctor - Finding the Global in the Local and the Local in the Global: How can ethnography help make sense of transnational lives and structures?
  
  
• 16:30 - 16:45 - Closing remarks
  
  

November 22nd 2024
9:30am - 5:00pm

ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Postgraduate Centre
ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Square
Luton
LU1 3JU

Join us for an insightful presentation event showcasing the groundbreaking postgraduate dissertations of our students, This event will feature research on a range of important topics, including:

• Adverse childhood experiences
• Care leavers
• Asylum seekers in the UK
• Parental incarceration/immigration detention and the effects on children
• School exclusion
• Drug abuse
• Refugee family reunification

Refreshments will be provided from 3pm

January 30th 2025
9:30am - 5:00pm

ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Postgraduate Centre
ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Square
Luton
LU1 3JU

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9:30am - 5:00pm

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9:30am - 5:00pm

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March 18th 2025

ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Postgraduate Centre
ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Square
Luton
LU1 3JU

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February 3rd 2025

ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Postgraduate Centre
ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Square
Luton
LU1 3JU

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