Role
Charlie is a Lecturer in the Department of Social Work, Care and Community (SWCC), in the School of Social Sciences.
She is Course Leader for BA (Hons) Youth Work, and teaches on the MA in Youth Work Leadership and Practice; FdA Working with Children, Young People and Families; and BA (Hons) Youth Justice.
Career overview
After completing her MA in Youth and Community Work (JNC) Charlie worked with young people for several years in a variety of settings including youth clubs, detached youth work, and residential care.
Research areas
Charlie has research interests spanning youth work, intersectionality, identity and gender. She is currently undertaking her PhD exploring 'How intersecting identities hinder and facilitate inclusion in youth work?'.
External activity
Charlie is one of the co-ordinators for an Eramus + funded project between the UK, France, Poland, Türkiye and Cyprus, entitled the Protect Project.
This project aims to promote an understanding of child sexual exploitation (CSE) and providing youth workers with training materials which will better equip them to work with CSE and related, overlapping issues such as criminal exploitation and grooming. Using training events hosted in partner countries, Protect Project will develop a trans-national toolkit based on the collaborative development activities of each training event held.
This toolkit is available on our website and will be updated throughout the three year project to further educate youth workers and maintain good practice in working with CSE and related issues. https://sites.gold.ac.uk/the-protect-project/
Publications
Baker, C. (2020) Young people and national identity: can youth work provide 'border crossings'? Youth & Policy https://www.youthandpolicy.org/articles/young-people-national-identity/