Welcome to UP2YOUTH: Youth - actor of social change

The Queen's University of Belfast is since March 2007 a new partner in the consortium contributing to the Young Parenthood working group.

The School of Education is part of the Queen´s University of Belfast and has developed considerable expertise and an international reputation for it´s research on the role of education in divided and conflict-affected societies. A main commitment of the research is to promote social inclusion in and through education. As such, a number of the core themes are: equality and social justice in education; citizenship education in divided societies; and educational responses to diversity and difference.

Andy Biggart, phd, researcher. Fields of expertise: Young People’s Transitions from Education to the Labour Market, Post-Compulsory Education and Training, Low Attainment and Educational Disadvantage and Comparative European Studies.