Staff Profile
Carole Pugh
Senior Lecturer
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I joined York St John University in 2014 after 15 years of working as a professional youth and community worker with Local Authorities. Alongside this I worked on a number of youth research projects, undertaking fieldwork and data analysis.
My academic interests relate to youth and community work, social policy, and youth participation.
- School – School of Education, Language and Psychology
- Email – c.pugh@yorksj.ac.uk
- Phone – 01904 876 457
Further information
Teaching
I teach on:
- BA (Hons) Children, Young People and Society
- BA (Hons) Education Studies, Special educational needs and Mental Health
- BA (Hons) Early Years Education and Care and MA Education
Research
My current research focus is my PhD which is examining youth work and youth political participation.
Publications
Book
Bright, G. & Pugh, C. (eds.) (2019) Youth Work: Global Futures. Rotterdam: Sense.
Book chapters
Bright, G. Pugh, C. & Clarke, M. (2017) ‘Youth work, agonistic democracy and transgressive enjoyment in England’ in Pickard, S. & Bessant, J. Young people regenerating Politics in times of crisis, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
Pugh C. & Norris P. (2015) Local Authority Youth Work in Bright, G. (ed.) The Nature of Youth Work Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
Pugh C. (2010) ‘Sustaining Ourselves and our Enthusiasm’ in Jeffs & Smith, Youth Work Practice, London, Palgrave.
Research report
With D Crimmens, F Factor, T Jeffs, J Pitts, J Spence and P Turner (2004) Reaching Socially Excluded Young People: A National Study of Street-based Youth Work, Leicester, NYA.
Journal articles
Death of a Service (2019) Youth and Policy
Reconfiguring Youth Work: Some Findings from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Detached and Outreach Research Project (with J Spence and P Turner) in Youth and Policy No. 81 pp 58-73.
Classic Texts Revisited, ‘GW Goetschius & MJ Tash: Working with Unattached Youth, and CS Smith, MR Farrant & HJ Marchant: The Wincroft Youth Project: A Social Work Programme in a Slum Area’ in Youth and Policy No. 79 pp 60-68.
Classic Texts Revisited, W D Wills: The Hawkspur Experiment and The Barns Experiment Youth and Policy No. 72 pp 80-87.
‘Christian Youth Work Evangelism or Social Action’ in Youth and Policy No. 65 pp8-27.
Conference papers
Bright, G. and Pugh, C. (2017). Youth work and agonistic democracy in England. Professional Association of Lecturers in Youth and Community Work annual residential conference, 6th July 2017, University of Hull.
Bright, G. and Pugh, C. (2015) Youth Work and Cartographic Action: Renaming Paradoxes – Mapping Utopian Futures. Professional Association of Lecturers in Youth and Community Work annual residential conference, 25th-27th June 2015, Brathay House, Cumbria. Available at Research at York St John RaY is York St John's institutional repository service Youth Work and Cartographic Action: Renaming Paradoxes - Mapping Utopian Futures
Professional activities
Professional memberships
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
I am also a trustee at Door 84 Youth and Community Project and a Project Board Member Raise York (Family Hub Network).
