This podcast discusses care experience youth (youth in foster care, group homes, shelters etc) and their value and use of leisure time activities. This paper pulls from Positive Youth Development (episode 19), and the social ecological model (theory breakdown 3). 

Tom is a Senior Lecturer in Physical Education (PE) and Sport Pedagogy. His research explores the role of sport and PE for youth from socially vulnerable backgrounds, specific care experienced children and young people.

Following his PhD in 2011, Tom worked as the ‘Educational Review’ Post-doctoral Research Fellow, and later as a Lecturer in Sport, at the University of Birmingham. While completing his doctoral studies in August 2010, Tom was presented with the AIESEP Young Scholar Award at the AIESEP World Congress in La Coruna, Spain. Tom moved to Leeds in 2012 as a Senior Lecturer in Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy.

You can follow Dr. Quarmby on twitter @DrTomQ

The cite:

Quarmby, T., Sandford, R., & Pickering, K. (2018). Care-experienced youth and positive development: an exploratory study into the value and use of leisure-time activities. Leisure Studies, 1-15.