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Sinead is Senior Lecturer in Community Development and Adult Education and Programme Leader of BA Community Development. She is a qualified practitioner who has experience of working within the UK and abroad. My practice has included youth work, education and community development in areas of conflict. She graduated from the University of Glasgow in Politics and Sociology before moving to the University of Strathclyde and completing postraduate studies in Community Education. Her PhD examined the relationship between youth gangs and their local communities. Her academic teaching and research focuses on Community Development, Youth Work, Social Justice as well as Equality and Rights-based work.
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- Social Justice and Equality practice and policy
- Youth work and community development as emancipatory praxis
- Community development and Peacebuilding
- The impact of Brexit on youth work
- Domestic abuse
- Coercive control
- Youth justice
Sinead's research is focused broadly within the fields of Youth Work and Communtiy Development. Recently she has undertaken work in a number of areas specifically relating to young people and communities, including:
Selected Publications:
Recent Articles
Coburn, A. and Gormally, S. (2020) Defining well-being in community development from the ground up: a case study of participant and practitioner perspectives. Community Development Journal, 55(2), pp. 237-257. (doi: 10.1093/cdj/bsy048)
Coburn, A. and Gormally, S. (2019) Youth work: converging and diverging responses in England and Scotland. Concept: The Journal of Contemporary Community Education Practice and Theory, 10(3),
Gormally, S. (2019) "It' not being racist, but ... ": a youth gang and the creation of belonging based on "othering". Boyhood Studies, 12(2), pp. 70-88. (doi: 10.3167/bhs.2019.120205)
Coburn, A. and Gormally, S. (2019) Creating educational synergies. Youth and Policy,
Brennan, I. R., Burton, V., Gormally, S. and O'Leary, N. (2019) Service provider difficulties in operationalising coercive control. Violence Against Women, 25(6), pp. 635-653. (doi: 10.1177/1077801218797478)
Coburn, A. and Gormally, S. (2019) Youth work education: is the voluntary principle no longer reliable in defining youth work? Concept: The Journal of Contemporary Community Education Practice and Theory, 10(1),
Coburn, A. and Gormally, S. (2017) Beyond Brexit: the impact of leaving the EU on the youth work sector. Youth and Policy,
Gormally, S. (2015) 'I've been there, done that...: A study of youth gang desistancr. Youth Justice, 15(2), pp. 148-165. (doi: 10.1177/1473225414549679)
Hughes, G., Cooper, C., Gormally, S. and Rippingale, J. (2014) The state of youth work in austerity England – reclaiming the ability to ‘care’. Youth and Policy, 113, pp. 1-14.
Gormally, S. and Coburn, A. (2014) Finding Nexus: connecting youth work and research practices. British Educational Research Journal, 40(5), pp. 869-885. (doi: 10.1002/berj.3118)
Coburn, A. and Gormally, S. (2014) ‘They know what you are going through’: a service response to young people who have experienced the impact of domestic abuse. Journal of Youth Studies, 17(5), pp. 642-663. (doi: 10.1080/13676261.2013.844779)
Books
Coburn, A. and Gormally, S. (2017) Communities for Social Change: Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work. Series: Counterpoints: studies in criticality, 483. Peter Lang: New York. ISBN 9781433129773 (doi:10.3726/b11265)
Book Seections
Cleaver, E., Wills, D., Gormally, S. , Grey, D., Johnson, C. and Rippingale, J. (2017) Connecting research and teaching through curricular and pedagogic design: from theory to practice in disciplinary approaches to connecting the higher education curriculum. In: Fung, D. (ed.) A Connected Curriculum for Higher Education. UCL Press: London. ISBN 9781911576334
Coburn, A. and Gormally, S. (2017) Cohesion, commonality and creativity: youth work across borders. In: Dzigurski, S. (ed.) Europe in Transition: Diversity, Identity and Youth Work. SALTO Cultural Diversity Resource Centre, pp. 46-51.
Coburn, A. and Gormally, S. (2015) Emancipatory praxis: a social-justice approach to equality work. In: Socially-Just, Radical Alternatives for Education and Youth Work Practice: Re-Imagining Ways of Working with Young People. Palgrave Macmillan: Basinstoke, pp. 65-84. ISBN 9781137393586 (doi:10.1057/9781137393593_4)
Coburn, A. and Gormally, S. (2015) Youth work in schools. In: Bright, G. (ed.) Youth Work: Histories, Policy and Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan: Basinstoke. ISBN 9781137434395
Gormally, S. (2014) The complexities, contradictions and consequences of being ‘anti-social’ in Northern Ireland. In: Pickard, S. (ed.) Anti-Social Behaviour in Britain: Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan: Basinstoke, pp. 179-191. ISBN 9781137399304
Edited Book
Cooper, C., Gormally, S. and Hughes, G. (Eds.) (2015) Socially-Just, Radical Alternatives for Education and Youth Work Practice: Re-Imagining Ways of Working with Young People. Palgrave Macmillan: Basinstoke. ISBN 9781137393586
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