This is the Wiki website for the Troubles of Youth unit, taught in the Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University. Currently, the site is fairly basic, but please feel free to contact me if there is something you wish to add.

PLEASE NOTE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEAVE A COMMENT.

1. Unit Administration - this contains lecture outlines, class times and details of assessments etc.

2. Lecture Notes - this contains files of brief lecture notes.

3. Seminar Materials - this contains readings, questions and other material relating to seminars

4. Useful Online Links for Coursework Two

5. Where is Dan? Click here to find out when Dan is in the office.

    

Dan Ellingworth  (d.m.ellingworth@mmu.ac.uk )

Unit Announcements

The seminars from here on in are based around the second piece of coursework. The following are strong suggestions of a useful timetable for your work:

                       Coursework Signposts

2nd March      

Identified a social problem, and an area of intervention

Sketch out a theory of change

9th March       

Collecting research /evaluation evidence relating to the intervention

16th March     

Begin to Analyse and Assess evidence - identify commonalities and differences across the types of interventions, and their effects

23rd March     

Be able to summarise your work verbally (though not yet written it up)

The seminars on these dates will address these areas, but will be "student-led" ie. Chris and I will NOT have prepared any material: we will spend the time discussing issues that you raise.

Advice Sheet for Coursework 2 (due 20th April)

You can access the coursework advice sheet for the second piece of coursework  HERE . The evaluation seminar guidance is also worth reading: Evaluation Seminar Outline and Guidance.doc (this refers to Home Office "British Experience of Scared Straight"  ). There is also a new link at the bottom of this page to "Useful Online Links for Coursework Two".

Coursework One

The coursework marks and feedback are ready, and you should have received the feedback sheets through your MMU student email account. THIS SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED NOW - IF YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED IT, I HAVE HAD PROBLEMS WITH YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS: PLEASE EMAIL ME, AND I WILL BE ABLE TO SEND YOUR FEEDBACK TO YOU.

Advice for the first piece of coursework can be found HERE. Please note that despite what it says in the Unit Outline, the word length for the assessments is 2500 words. Chris has also prepared a powerpoint presentation that is useful: it is availableHERE