youth

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Producers and participants from ActNowFilm at COP28 premiere

Mary Robinson launches ActNowFilm at COP28

08 Dec 2023

ActNowFilm launched at COP28 with an address from former Ireland President Mary Robinson, who urged world leaders to include young people in the...

ActNowFilm

27 Nov 2023

Youth leaders and world figures featured in new ActNowFilm, to premiere at COP28 call for young people to be included in national climate negotiation...

A young casual worker in Zimbabwe during the pandemic, Credit: International Labour Organization

‘Generation lockdown’ needs targeted help-to-work policies – global report

21 Oct 2021

Nations 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...

Pandemic restrictions aggravating known triggers for self-harm and poor mental health among children and young people

10 Mar 2021

Experts 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 Oct 2020

Young people’s faith in democratic politics is lower than any other age group, and millennials across the world are more disillusioned with democracy...

Justice of the East: research on crime and rehabilitation in our region

12 Mar 2019

From Fenland delinquency to policing Peterborough’s streets and the power of prison education, researchers from the Institute of Criminology are...

Circuit: Unlock Cambridge invites young people to discover an alternative side to the city

03 Oct 2015

Youth 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...

A quarter of young people in the UK have experienced ‘unsafe’ homelessness, finds study

06 Jul 2015

A new study finds the numbers of young people being accommodated by local authorities or homeless services across the UK to be over three times...

Underage youth exposed to alcohol advertising through social media

20 Dec 2013

Researchers investigating whether children and young adults are exposed to advertising from major alcohol brands on the three most popular social...

Is prison a solution or a problem? How does it feel to have your freedom taken away. Find out at the Festival of Ideas

Does prison work? / How to stay out of prison - Festival of Ideas

15 Oct 2011

Jason Hill was a persistent young offender who the courts and Youth Offending Services had given up on.

Dr Fowler believes that contemporary student protests, such as the one in London last year, are a pale imitation of their 1960s counterparts

The Creative Campus

13 Oct 2011

Students ripped up their university exam papers in protest against established authority and in rejection of formal qualifications; a progressive...