Youth Studies Ireland Journal

Vol. 1 No.1 – Autumn 2006

• Youth Work in Northern Ireland: An Exploration of Emerging Themes and Challenges, Ken Harland and Tony Morgan
• Youth, Governance and the City: Towards a Critical Urban Sociology of Youth Crime and Disorder Prevention, Matt Bowden
• Addressing Youth and Being Young: Investigating the ‘Bias of Youth’ in Irish Advertising, Neil O’Boyle
• ASBOs and Behaviour Orders: Institutionalised Intolerance of Youth?, Claire Hamilton and Mairéad Seymour
• Traveller Children and Education: Progress and Problems, Cormac Forkan
• Significant Steps Forward in Irish Social Care Scholarship, Nóirin Hayes
• Strategy for the Delivery of Youth Work in Northern Ireland 2005-2008, Sam McCready (Review)

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Vol. 2 No. 1 – Spring / Summer 2007

• Youth Mentoring in Ireland: Weighing Up the Benefits and Challenges, Bernadine Brady and Pat Dolan
• Worldviews Apart? Perceptions of Place among Rural, Farm and Urban Young People in Ireland, Brian McGrath and Saoirse NicGabhainn
• Young Rent Supplement Claimants in the Private Rented Sector: An Analysis of Socio-Economic Characteristics and Duration of Claims, Dermot Coates and Michelle Norris
• Coming of Age at Last? Youth Work, the Good Relations Legislation and the Shared Future Policy in Northern Ireland, Derick Wilson
• Young People’s Views about Recreation and Leisure: Findings from a National Study, Áine de Róiste and Joan Dinneen
• Involving Young People in Conference Planning: Some Lessons from Practice, Celia Keenaghan and Mary Roche
• Faith Based Youth Work in Northern Ireland (Review)
• Youth Justice in Ireland: Tough Lives, Rough Justice (Review)
• Youth Work: Voices of Practice (Review)

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Vol. 2 No.2 – Autumn / Winter 2007

• What Do Youth Workers Do? Communicating Youth Work, Jean Spence
• Emergent Issues in Ethnic Youth Studies: A Historical and Ethnographic Study of the Vietnamese Irish Experience, Mark Maguire
• Recreational Drug Taking Among LGBT Young Adults in Ireland: Results of an Exploratory Study, Kiran Sarma
• ‘Not that I wouldn’t trust them, I trust probably two of them…’: Exploring the Information Worlds of Ethnic Minority Adolescents in Ireland, Jean Henefer
• Management and Motivation: The Views of Professional Youth Workers, Deirdre Bigley
• Choices and Constraints, Risks and Opportunities: Some Perspectives from Young People in Kilkenny
• Work in Progress: Case Studies in Participatory Arts with Young People (Review)
• Relationship and Sexuality Education (RSE) in the Context of Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) (Review)
• Teenspace: National Recreation Policy for Young People (Review)

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Vol. 3 No. 1 – Spring / Summer 2008

• Youth, Intercultural Learning and Cultural Politics in Europe: Some Current Debates, Gavan Titley
• Youth Homelessness in Ireland: The Emergence of a Social Problem, Eoin O’Sullivan and Paula Mayock
• ‘It sort of widens the health word…’: Evaluation of a Health Promotion Intervention in the Youth Work Setting, Margaret Hodgins and Lynn Swinburne
• Coming of Age in the 21st Century: The New and Longer Road to Adulthood, Liz Kerrins
• Going Global: Good Practice Guidelines for Development Education in Youth Work, Niamh McCrea and Johnny Sheehan
• The Blind Alley: Some Aspects of Juvenile Employment in Ireland (1915)
• Youth and Social Capital: A Great Feast of Light: Growing up Irish in the Television Age (Review)
• Young People in Comtempory Ireland (Review)

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Vol. 3 No. 2 – Autumn / Winter 2008

• Balancing Due Process Values with Welfare Objectives in Juvenile Justice Procedure: Some Strenghts and Weaknesses in the Irish Approach, Dermot PJ. Walsh
• Choice and Resistance: Young People’s Perspectives on Food and Eating at School, Michelle Share
• Youth Participation and Youth Work: A Conceptual Review, Matthew Seebach
• Adolescence and the Vocational Educational Bill (1930)
• Putting Children First?, Majella Mulkeen

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Vol. 4 No. 1 – Spring / Summer 2009

• The Function of History in the Debate on the Social Professions: The Case of Youth Work, Walter Lorenz
• Voices of Hidden Young Carers in Cork, Joe Finnerty and Cathal O’Connell
• Not Just Homelessness… A Study of ‘Out of Home’ Young People in Cork City, Paula Mayock and Nicola Carr
• Diversity Toolkit for Youth Work: Increasing Participation and Inclusion for all Young People, Matthew Seebach and Anne Walsh
• Industrial School in Ireland (1884)
• Finding Youth: Exploring Theory and Experiences of Youth in Late Modern Societies, Katharina Swirak

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Vol. 4 No. 2 – Autumn / Winter 2009

• Comparing the New Zealand Curriculum and Young People’s Conceptions of ‘Ideal Citizens’, Bronwyn Elisabeth Wood
• ‘You just have to figure it out for yourself’ Young LGBT Women and Healthcare Services in Northern Ireland, Duana McArdle
• The Benefits of Youth Work: Young People’s and Youth Workers’ Perspectives, Maurce Devlin and Anna Gunning
• Essential Guidelines for Good Youth Work Practice, City of Dublin Youth Service Board
• Young Women’s Christian Association Report for Ireland, 1887
• The Voices of Youth Work Website/Blog

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Vol. 5 No.1 – Spring / Summer 2010

• What do Young People Think of the Gardaí?: An Examination of Young People’s Attitudes to and Experiences of An Garda Siochána, Niamh Feeney and Sinéad Freeman
• Addressing the Needs of Young People: A Broader View of Sexual Health, Caroline Forde
• Drug and Alcohol-Related Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviour: A Study of Early School Leavers in the West of Ireland, Sue Redmond and Eva Devaney
• Children and Young People’s Experiences of Health Information and Quality Authority Inspections, Brendan Kneafsey, Fiona Murray and Fiona Daly
• Children’s Rights in Ireland: Law, Policy and Practice (Review)
• Youth and Community Work in Ireland: Critical Perspectives (Review)

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Vol. 5 No. 2 – Autumn / Winter 2012

• “I Always Need my Mum” Social Capital, Social Learning and Student Housing Transitions in Northern Ireland, David Cairns and Katarzna Growiec
• Building a Relationship through Effective Interpersonal Engagement: A Training Model for Youth Workers, Pat Henry, Susan Morgan and Mark Hammond
• ‘Coffee Houses’ and ‘Crime Prevention’ Some Thoughts on Youth Cafés and Garda Youth Diversion Projects in the Context of Youth Work in Ireland, Micheál O’hAodain
• Fifteen Year Olds’ Alcohol, Cigarette and Drug Use in Ireland: Results from a Pilot Study, Marie Claire Van Hout
• Young People, Youth Work and Youth Policy: European Developments, Maurice Devlin
• Creative Studies for the Caring Professions (Review)
• Children and Young People’s Participation: Perspectives from Theory and Practice (Review)

Vol. 6 No. 1 – Spring / Summer 2011

• Targeted Youth Work in Contemporary Ireland, Margaret Scanlon, Fred Powell, Martin Geoghegan and Katharina Swirak
• Mapping Fieldwork and Supervision Practice in the Social Profession (Part 1), Hilary Tierney
• Young Travellers and Youth Work in Ireland, Elaine Mahon
• The European Youth Campaign in Ireland (1950s)

Vol. 6 No. 2 – Autumn / Winter 2011

• Youth Work as a Public Good: Older Teenagers’ Experiences of Youth Services in Dublin, Matt Bowden and Kerri Martin Lanigan
• Mapping Fieldwork and Supervision Practice in the Social Profession (Part 2), Hilary Tierney
• Risk and Protection Factors for Substance Use Among Young People: A Comparative Study of Early School Leavers and School Attending Students, Trutz Haase and Jonathan Pratschke
• Catering for the Young (1959), Rev. Peter Birch
• The Children’s Rights Referendum, Voices of Youth