Adrienne Katz founded Young Voice, a national charity making young people’s views heard. Young Voice pioneered ways of listening to young people about their concerns and what works. The charity produces research, books, artwork and films expressing young people’s views. Bullying and victimisation have been continuous themes for ten years.
Prior to this Adrienne wrote eight books for parents and worked as a journalist covering social issues such as the UN International Year of the Family, and the Sheffield experiment on bullying, before turning to social research in association with academic partners at Oxford University in 1996.
Working as an associate with the team at the Centre for Research into Parenting and Children in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford, she wrote ‘Bullying In Britain – Testimonies of Teenagers’ supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 2001 it was considered a groundbreaking piece of work with a large sample of teenagers. Analysis showed links to bullying with certain factors in parenting style and experience of violence. Depression and school disaffection were also analysed.
Other studies with this team are listed in the booklist .Questions on bullying were then routinely included in future surveys and we were able to develop large samples to study different aspects of bullying. |
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Among the titles Adrienne has edited and published, are: ‘Bullying: from reaction to prevention’, ‘Hope and the Bullies’ and the pack: ‘Bullying: You Can help Your Child’. She has written and delivered a training course which has been submitted for accreditation.
Adrienne has led a range of participatory projects with young people and written/edited the reports. Issues such as: gangs, weapons, drugs, alcohol, offending, aspirations, health, racism and bullying have been covered. The findings are delivered to agencies and decision makers in accessible formats.
Adrienne is an advisory board member of the Centre for The Study of Safety and Wellbeing, School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick, an advisory board member for The ‘Changing Lives’ Advisory Group at Leeds University and an advisory board member of the Partnership Board for the Centre for the Study of Youth, University of Sheffield.
She is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts.
In April 2008 she is setting up ‘youthworks’ a consultancy on policy and practice concerning children and young people. |
