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Part of an artist’s illustration representing themes discussed at the event ‘Insights from Non-Formal Education Initiatives for Youth-Led Change’ in December 2024.

Introducing three reports on Non-Formal Education for Youth-Led Change

New research explores the transformative potential of Non-Formal Education in empowering young people to drive meaningful social change.

Young people looking out the window of a glass building, in the bright yellow glow of the sun setting.

UK Arts, Culture and Young People: Innovative practice and trends

What are the issues that young people and the sector are facing across the UK, and how is creative practice responding to those needs?

Woman stacking sugar cubes into building-like structures, forming a small city on a tabletop.

Understanding Ukrainian young people’s current concerns, needs, and hopes: Looking ahead to a future rebuilding of Ukraine

Research examining how the war in Ukraine shapes young people’s everyday life and perceptions of the future.

Lost+Found project performance installation. Two performers on stage in front of a background projection featuring geometric yellow and black line art.

OFF/TRACK Collective: Imagining New forms of Cultural Production

Dr Poppy Spowage reflects on her CREDO Research Secondment with The British Council.

A woman wearing a purple shawl with floral patterns stands beside a wire mesh gate with a small green-and-yellow bird inside.

Next Generation Bangladesh 2024

The British Council’s Next Generation research series intends to bring the opinions and perspectives of young people in Bangladesh to the forefront of policy debates.

Coloniality, neo-orientalism, culture, and death: why it is time to move away from the ‘war on terror’ narrative

New Voices in Cultural Relations special commendation essay examining and challenging the narrative of the West’s ‘War on Terror’.

National Kandawgyi gardens of pyin u lwin

Dynamics of 21st-century anti-coup resistance in Myanmar: triangle model of resistance in Myanmar

New Voices in Cultural Relations special commendation essay exploring the resistance movement against the military coup in Myanmar.

Environment engineer collects samples of wastewater from industrial canals in test tube

Navigating the chemical weapons taboo: Russia’s response to the OPCW investigations in Syria, 2013–2022

New Voices in Cultural Relations special commendation essay examining Russia’s response to investigations into the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the role of information warfare.

The politics of expendability: decolonial reflections on the state of climate justice at COP27

Winning dissertation of the New Voices in Cultural Relations competition. This essay examines the policy outcomes of the twenty-seventh Conference of the Parties (COP27).

Discrimination in Europe from a Black European perspective: a framework for inclusion and anti-discrimination based on qualitative expert interviews with Black politicians in Europe

New Voices in Cultural Relations special commendation essay investigating the phenomenon of Afrophobia/Anti-Black racism in Europe.