Our schools-based resilience research adapts the Resilience Framework for use in schools and helps schools make resilient moves across the whole school community. Many different types of school are working with us on this.
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Becoming a kinship carer can be a hard job. It may well be harder than anything that you have ever done before. Kinship carers care for grandchildren, nieces, nephews or children who are friends of their family.
Read MoreBeen sweltering at Edith Cowan University in Western Oz and offered my sweaty palm to many a community member and their academic partner. What an exaggerator. The air con was on most of the time and I was fresh as a daisy. Hats off to the team for getting two very diverse groups of people together for both the morning and afternoon sessions – people from the uni, local council, police, schools and further education colleges to name just a few places from whence they hailed.
Read MoreGreetings from a very sunny Australia where I’m spending four weeks as Visiting Fellow courtesy of Engagement Australia, an umbrella organisation for a number of Australian universities committed to community university partnership working. Temperatures here are hitting 40 degrees. And that’s before we get down to discussing the complexities of community university partnerships.
Read MoreThe European Resilience project explores how to help adults and adolescents through resilience training, using a three-part toolkit including Guidelines, 10 exercises and an interview schema developed to fit into adult education and counselling.
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