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PhD Howard WILLIAMSON Professor of European Youth Policy, Faculty of Business and Society, University of South Wales, Pontypridd

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 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).

Mitgliedschaften

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Publikationen

Supporting Young People in Europe Vol 2, Strasbourg, Council of Europe, 2008
The Thoughts of Chairman How, Leicester, National Youth Agency, 2007
The Milltown Boys Revisited, Oxford, Berg, 2004
Supporting Young People in Europe: Principles, Policy and Practice, Strasbourg, Council of Europe, 2002

Auszeichnungen

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)