Yasmin Washbrook

Senior Lecturer in Youth and Community

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Yasmin was awarded a First Class BA (Hons) Degree in Youth and Community Work, at Newman University, gaining JNC professional status; going on to graduate at Masters level in the same field.

Yasmin achieved distinction for a Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, at Wrexham University in 2022.

Yasmin has 17 years of experience in the Youth and Community Work sector. Having the opportunity to work with young people in a variety of settings across England, Wales and Malta. Some of these have included; grassroots youth clubs, statutory youth services, Duke Of Edinburgh awards, children’s homes, housing and youth homeless provision including national youth engagement and digital youth work. Yasmin has focused on supporting and encouraging vulnerable young people across England, to have their voices heard by influencing organisational, Government and structural policies and systems that directly impact their lived experiences.

Yasmin became a council member for the Institute for Youth Work, being elected to the council in 2020; going on to become an editor for a Youth Work national publication, Youth & Policy, alongside being a mentor for the Equal Power, Equal Voice mentor partnership with Women's Equality Network (WEN) Wales, Stonewall Cymru, Disability Wales, and Ethnic Minorities & Youth Support Team (EYST). Yasmin has recent publications covering race equality and auto-ethnographic methodology, using personal experience and voice to influence research.


Hobbies: Yasmin spends her free time gardening and combining this hobby with craft-making. Yasmin also enjoys exploring England and Wales to develop her photography skills.

Publications

Year Publication Type
2023 Engaging in race equity: navigating power and privilege in higher education, Advance HE News + Views. 
Yasmin Washbrook;Ali Bloomfield;Claire Taylor
Other Publication
2022 YOU-THE VOICE: USING AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHIC AND COLLABORATIVE AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODOLOGIES IN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY WORK, Youth Voice Journal. 
Yasmin Washbrook;Emma Beacon
Other Journal
2021 Educating Informal Educators on Issues of Race and Inequality: Raising Critical Consciousness, Identifying Challenges, and Implementing Change in a Youth and Community Work Programme, EDUCATION SCIENCES, 11. [DOI]
Achilleos, Jess;Douglas, Hayley;Washbrook, Yasmin
Peer Reviewed Journal
2021 Educating Informal Educators on Issues of Race and Inequality: Raising Critical Consciousness, Identifying Challenges, and Implementing Change in a Youth and Community Work Programme, [DOI]
Achilleos, Jess;Douglas, Hayley;Washbrook, Yasmin
Peer Reviewed Journal

Programs/ Modules Coordinated

Title Subject
Contextual Studies FY302
Placement 3 - Leading in Professional Practice YCW611
Negotiated Learning YCW712
Young People's Development YCW317
Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Youth and Community Work YCW316
Values & Principles of Youth and Community Work YCW411
Working Creatively With Groups YCW412
Youth and Community in Practice 2 YCW319
Youth and Community in Practice 1 YCW318