1. Knowledge Transfer Increasing impact

2. Aims of the Knowledge Transfer: Increasing impact and significance of findings from our project Funded by Brunel University

3. Phase 1 of KT: Maintaining our website: www.celebyouth.orgwww.celebyouth.org Increasing our use of Mailchimp Twitter presence Facebook presence Building links through writing blogs for websites and organisations Carry out stakeholder interviews with key people in the field of youth work, education, teaching, NGOs.

4. Phase 2: Developing Materials Develop and build on the relationships established in phase 1 Take up recommendations made by the stakeholder interviews: establishing links with In defence of Youth Work, Pete Fraser and Claire Nix

5. Phase 3: Marketing findings Deliver 3 workshops through key conferences Develop 2 toolkits for youthworkers /practioners and for teachers

6. 6 stories of young people from the celebyouth study MEMORIES HOPES FUTURE GOALS STRUGGLES

7. Edward Edward is in the first year of the sixth from at a London school studying for A-levels in Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics, a combination chosen to prepare him for a degree in electronic engineering.

8. Mariam Mariam is 17 and attends an inner-city academy school. Her school is in a multi-ethnic area of Manchester with considerable levels of deprivation.

9. Will Smith Will’s in his final year at a rural school in South West England studying for A-levels in ICT, Product Design and Sport. He feels that he lives in ‘a great place’ and enjoys how friendly people are (‘there’s no like knife crime or anything round here’) and the opportunities for outdoor activities and sport.

10. Sarah Sarah’s in the first year of the sixth from at a London school studying for A-levels in Drama, English,Film Studies and Photography, a combination reflecting her focus on creativity.

11. Julia Julia is in the first year of sixth form at a rural school in South West England studying A-levels. She likes the intimacy of the local area, being able to know people in the street, as this matches her ‘sociable’ personality.

12. Wolfgang Wolfgang is 15 years old and studying for his GCSE examinations at a large multi-ethnic secondary school in Manchester.

13. How can we use these resources? We have included points of discussion within each of the stories – what else do you think as practioners we could do with these

14. Mythbusting Myth One: Celebrity Addiction/Worshipping Celebrities: Young people are obsessed with celebrity culture Myth two: Attention Seeking “Most young people want to be famous” Myth three: Let’s get rich quick “Young people have low aspirations” Myth four: Wannabe WAGs, x-factor stars Young people want to marry footballers or be a glamour model, or realty TV star Myth five: Lazy youth “All young people don’t value hard work”

15. Please visit our website: www.celebyouth.org We also have a website with available resources: http://celebyouth.org/mythbusting/