Authoring Our Own Stories: Graffiti Exhibition at The National Coal Mining Museum Blog

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Young Leaders, Chelsea Jackson (Youth Work Unit: Yorkshire and The Humber) and Dr Kat Simpson (The University of Huddersfield) organised and held a public dissemination event Authoring Our Own Stories: Graffiti Exhibition at the National Coal Mining Museum (25.01.2025). The event exhibited research from the Impact Acceleration Account research project: Mined Out? Youth in the Former Coalfields which worked alongside the Youth Work Unit’s regional involvement in the five-year National Lottery funded Authoring Our Own Stories (AOOS). AOOS and the IAA explored 40 young working-class lads’ (11-25-years-old) experiences of growing up in and around the former coalfields of Barnsley. The research focused on three spheres – education, employment, and community – and explored the lads’ orientations towards, and lived experiences of, these spheres.