5 Key Takeaways from the National Youth Justice Conference 2024
As the dust settles on the National Youth Justice Conference 2024, we’re excited to share five key insights from this year’s event. The National Youth Justice Conference is the Scottish Government’s flagship event for youth justice practitioners, hosted in partnership with the Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice (CYCJ) and the National Youth Justice […]
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Challenging Justice Inequalities with children in conflict with the law
The Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice’s Research Lead, Dr Nina Vaswani and co-investigators Professor Yvette Taylor (Education) and Dr Michelle Donnelly (Law) have been awarded a prestigious Nuffield Foundation research grant for the project “Challenging Justice Inequalities with Children in Conflict with the Law”. The project will also benefit from input from Dr Robert […]
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Research: The Next Generation
CYCJ are co-developing a young researchers programme for children and young people, with children and young people. The first pilot was led by ‘The Research Racoons’ from Drumchapel High School who carried out an interesting piece of research on ‘Life in Space’. In addition to becoming brilliant young researchers and undertaking this ‘out of this […]
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Reflecting on 10 Years of CYCJ
Today is the 10 year anniversary of CYCJ’s move to the University of Strathclyde! In this piece CYCJ Director Fiona Dyer reflects on the change that we’ve helped to drive for children and young people since 2013, and picks out some of her personal highlights from years gone by. I can’t actually believe that it’s […]
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Research in practice
CYCJ’s new Research Assistant, Yanna Papadodimitraki, gives us an insight into her hopes and goals for youth justice, and shares her thoughts on the potential of combining research and practice. So, here I am. After a brief time at the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS), to the Centre for Youth and Criminal Justice (CYCJ), […]
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The life and times of a PhD student
Fern Gillon, who is working with CYCJ as part of her research into diverting young people from crime, shares what it’s like to embark on a PhD in this funny and honest blog. Where to start? I have every book titled, “how to…PhD/Postgrad study” but week one and two have still been a bit of […]
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Research Unbound
Self-confessed “research geek” Nina Vaswani ponders her career direction and accessibility/credibility issues as the worlds of social media and academic publishing continue on a collision course… I have been thinking quite a lot recently about why I am doing research. Don’t worry, I’m not having a crisis of confidence about my chosen career, but I have been reflecting on what […]
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