ActNowFilm premieres at COP29
21 November 2024Youth leaders from around the planet celebrated the COP29 premiere of a new film demanding global negotiators give them a say in their own future.
Mary Robinson launches ActNowFilm at COP28
08 December 2023ActNowFilm launched at COP28 with an address from former Ireland President Mary Robinson, who urged world leaders to include young people in the climate negotiations that will decide their future.
ActNowFilm
27 November 2023Youth leaders and world figures featured in new ActNowFilm, to premiere at COP28 call for young people to be included in national climate negotiation teams and global decision-making.
‘Generation lockdown’ needs targeted help-to-work policies – global report
21 October 2021Nations the world over are guilty of “policy inertia” when it comes to supporting young people who lost work or will struggle to enter the labour market as a result of the pandemic, according to new University of Cambridge research.
Pandemic restrictions aggravating known triggers for self-harm and poor mental health among children and young people
10 March 2021Experts have issued a stark warning about the effects of the pandemic on the mental health of children and young people.
Faith in democracy: millennials are the most disillusioned generation ‘in living memory’
20 October 2020Young people’s faith in democratic politics is lower than any other age group, and millennials across the world are more disillusioned with democracy than Generation X or baby boomers were at the same stage of life.
Justice of the East: research on crime and rehabilitation in our region
12 March 2019From Fenland delinquency to policing Peterborough’s streets and the power of prison education, researchers from the Institute of Criminology are engaged in the region to help reduce the harm crime can cause.
Circuit: Unlock Cambridge invites young people to discover an alternative side to the city
03 October 2015Youth arts group Circuit Cambridge, run jointly at Kettle’s Yard and Wysing Arts Centre, has announced a free one-day festival on Saturday 10 October dedicated to artistic exploration of the city.
A quarter of young people in the UK have experienced ‘unsafe’ homelessness, finds study
06 July 2015A new study finds the numbers of young people being accommodated by local authorities or homeless services across the UK to be over three times higher than those recorded by the Government, and highlights the ‘hidden homelessness’ of those forced to sleep on sofas of friends or relatives as they have nowhere else to stay.
Underage youth exposed to alcohol advertising through social media
20 December 2013Researchers investigating whether children and young adults are exposed to advertising from major alcohol brands on the three most popular social networks - Facebook, YouTube and Twitter - find that some channels and brands don’t have, or use, age restrictions.
