25: Den Weg für benachteiligte Jugendliche im Hochschulwesen ebnen – Grundsätze, Methoden, Praktiken
Howard Williamson ist Jugendarbeiter und Professor für Europäische Jugendpolitik. Seit vielen Jahren arbeitet er mit Jugendlichen, ist Mitglied zahlreicher Regierungskomitees und hat zu Jugendthemen auf nationaler und Europäischer Ebene geforscht. Derzeit koordiniert er den internationalen Bericht über die Lage der nationalen Jugendpolitiken des Europarates. Er wird über Jugendpolitik und konkrete Projektansätze sprechen, die benachteiligte Jugendliche bei der Auswahl und Bewältigung eines Studiums unterstützen.
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PhD Howard WILLIAMSON
Professor of European Youth Policy, Faculty of Business and Society, University of South Wales, Pontypridd
Dr Howard Williamson is Professor of European Youth Policy at the University of South Wales in the United Kingdom. Previously he worked at the Universities of Oxford, Cardiff and Copenhagen and has held visiting positions at universities and research institutes in Hong Kong, Malta, Croatia, China, France, Australia and Iran. He is a qualified youth worker and ran a youth centre for 25 years in parallel with his academic research. He has advised many levels of governance on youth policy issues, from the Welsh and UK governments, the European Commission, the Council of Europe and the United Nations. He co-ordinated the Council of Europe’s international reviews of national youth policy and wrote three volumes on ‘Supporting Young People in Europe’ drawing lessons from the 21 country reviews. He is a trustee of Grassroots - the Cardiff City Centre Youth Project, the European Forum Alpbach Foundation, and the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award for Young People. Since 2002, he has been Organisational Secretary of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 34. In 2002, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and, in 2016, a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO). |