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A fig leaf for action: Critical perspectives on youth policy in the UK

This paper discusses the changing approaches that governments in the Uk have adopted in response to youth issues and the extent to which these are reflected in dominant social constructions of youth. Our discussion offers a perspective on youth policy in the Uk in 2014 set within an historical context with a particular focus on policy from England. We outline the debates and issues facing youth policy as a result of the opportunities and tensions created by recent transformations of local authority services and changes to the way in which youth work is funded and consider the implications of this for young people. Finally we consider some of the key elements to youth policy in the current era of austerity. The picture of youth policy in the Uk highlights the extent to which ideological crusades based on moral panics and deficit models of youth have given rise to a stream of policies which have successively failed to connect with the lives of young people whilst redirecting the blame onto young people themselves. We argue that constantly changing and underfunded initiatives have done little more than provide a «fig leaf» to provide the illusion that something is being done

The value of creative health:Perspectives from people with lived experience: Research briefing, No. 2, November 2023

This briefing provides important evidence of perspectives from People with Lived Experience about the value of creative health approaches in improving health and wellbeing and what is needed to enable people to live well in their communities. Creative health approaches refers to the use of non-medical community-based provisions including art and creative activities (including singing, drama, visual arts and crafts) as well as sports, outdoor & nature-based activities and use of community facilities. The evidence in this briefing derives from collaborative research funded by the UKRI-AHRC Mobilising Community Assets programme with partners and community members across West Yorkshire that explored what it means to mobilise community assets in response to health inequalities. A participatory action inquiry approach was adopted involving the active engagement of stakeholder organisations and people in communities working together to explore possibilities for evolving creative health systems and approaches to enable people across West Yorkshire to live well. A total of 76 people with lived experience and 80 professionals from 67 different statutory and third sector organisations were involved in the project. The perspectives in this briefing are derived largely from workshops and inquiry groups with people with lived experience. The project was undertaken between November 2022 and July 2023

Developing creative health provision:Policy briefing, No. 1, Sept 2023

There is a rapidly increasing evidence base showing the value of creative community-based activities as a credible alternative for improving health and wellbeing. Creative health concerns the use of non-medical community-based provision to aid better health and wellbeing. This includes the creative arts, physical activities including sports and outdoor and nature-based activities. Over 50% of cases presented at GP surgeries are the result of social rather than medical conditions [REF]. Within a context of over stretched resources across the Health Sector including long waiting lists, there is a clear rationale for support and wide-spread adoption of creative health approaches which offer a more appropriate and cost-effective alternative to medical provision

The Cavendish Living lab - a multidisciplinary, vertically integrated project focused on sustainability

Colleagues from the School of Life Sciences will present findings from The Cavendish Living Lab’: a 2 year vertically integrated project (VIP) that focuses on co-creating sustainable solutions with the student participants from various disciplines and levels. Through applied research and learning within an authentic setting, the ‘Living Lab’ approach uses our university campus as the laboratory, and a platform for the students to partner with various stakeholders to address real world issues and develop innovative, sustainable solutions to problems such as food waste, plastic waste, and waste water

Bacterial activities in frozen soils

1. By means of the modified synthetic agar plate method bacteria are shown to be present in large numbers in a typical Wisconsin drift soil when it is completely frozen and the temperature is below zero degrees Centigrade; furthermore, increases and decreases in numbers of organisms occur during this period and large numbers are found after the soil has been frozen for a considerable period than before it begins to freeze. 2. During the fall season, the number of bacteria present in the soil diminishes gradually with the lowering of the temperature. 3. Frozen soils possess a much greater ammonifying power than non-frozen soils whether they are tested by the peptone solution method or by the dried blood or cottonseed meal method. 4. During the fall season, the ammonifying power of the soil increases until the temperature of the soil almost reaches zero, when a decrease occurs, and this is followed by a gradual increase and the ammonifying power of the soil reaches a maximum at the end of the frozen period. 5. The nitrifying power of frozen soils is weak and shows no tendency to increase with extension of the frozen period. 6. Frozen soils possess a decided denitrifying power which seems to diminish with the continuance of the frozen period. 7. During the fall season, the denitrifying power of the soil increases until the soil freezes, after which a decrease occurs. 8. Frozen soils possess a nitrogen-fixing power which increases with the continuance of the frozen period, being independent of moderate changes in the moisture conditions but restricted by large decreases in moisture. 9. In the fall, the nitrogen-fixing power of the soil increases until the soil becomes frozen, when it almost ceases, after which a smaller nitrogen-fixing power is established. 10. These results confirm Conn\u27s conclusion that bacteria are alive and multiply in frozen soils. The results of the physiological determinations lend support to his theory of the existence of specific groups of bacteria in the winter which are adapted to growth at low temperatures. 11. The theory is advanced that because of the surface tension exerted by the soil particles on the films of water, the presence of salts in this water, and the concentration in salts which may occur in it when the main body of soil water begins to freeze, it seems justifiable to assume that under average winter conditions, when the soil temperature is not depressed far below zero, the hygroscopic water in soils remains uncongealed and consequently bacteria may live in it and multiply sometimes to a comparatively large extent

Supporting the participation and empowerment of young Roma : a participatory practice guide for professionals

A collaborative learning resource written with advice from Roma young people and professionals working with PEER Youth in Romania, Bulgaria, Catalonia (Spain), Cyprus, England, Scotland and Wales (UK), France, Lithuania, Ireland and Italy

A stereodivergent asymmetric approach to difluorinated aldonic acids

A (bromodifluoromethyl)alkyne has been deployed in a stereoselective route to difluorinated aldonic acid analogues, in which a Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation reaction and diastereoisomer separation set the stage for phenyl group oxidation