MA Childhood and Youth

at Bangor University

What will you study on this course?
 As a student on this course, you will develop your understanding of significant matters and debates relating to and impacting on the lives of children and young people in society. For example:

• Social and cultural representations and meanings of childhood in the 21st century
• Children’s Rights in local and global contexts
• The complex interactions between the spaces children and young people inhabit
• Surveillance and policing of children in society
• Youth vulnerability, exploitation and development
• Children’s lives in the context of the changing nature of families and family life
• Researching children’s lives

All students will carry out a research project about, with or for children and young people. Topics can be based on student’s area of interest or current professional practice context, in consultation with tutors.

 Applicants should:

• hold a first degree, min 2ii, in a related subject (e.g. childhood and youth studies, social sciences, psychology, law or education) OR
• hold a first degree, min 2ii in an unrelated subject, plus at least two years’ professional experience of work with children and/or young people OR
• as mature applicants without a degree, have at least two years’ professional experience of work with children and/or young people.

Tuition Fee Per Year

£ 16,000

Students of this course will be thoroughly prepared to enhance practice within the children’s work force.  This could include education, children’s advocacy, youth justice, research, family support work, health or any aspect of work with and for children and young people.