Olivia Darby discusses their recent research on youth work and family engagement. The WONDER Foundation works in over 20 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America to empower women and girls to get the education they need to exit poverty for good.

Entrepreneurship is commonly associated with productivity and performance, infrastructures, and more recently “start-up” culture. But what when entrepreneurship is grounded in informal, home-based, small-scale businesses driven not by capitalistic notions of profit making but instead by feminist notions of care and empathy?

Read Yoshinori Kasai on how we search for our roots, uncovering the records, memories, and hidden gaps that shape family histories in Japan and elsewhere.

Read Yoshinori Kasai on how children build connections within their communities, drawing own his research on how a traditional folk event once provided an important opportunity for children to socialize.

Read Yoshinori Kasai on Japan’s traditional pilgrimage associations and their social functions, including the Ise-kō, an organization formed to carry out pilgrimages to the Ise Shrine, one of Japan’s most revered Shinto shrines.

Last week, Youth Scotland released ‘Acting on Funding’, highlighting the huge challenge of securing sustainable funding for youth work. Earlier this year, with Youth Link Scotland, we published The Power of Youth Work, a longitudinal biographical study which explored how youth work shapes lives

Read Bethany Sikes, Research and Policy manager at Volunteer Scotland, on the challenges of articulating the impact of volunteering, and work carried out with social value specialists State of Life to evidence the difference volunteering makes to people’s wellbeing.

Most research on migrant care work traces women’s journeys from the Global South to the Global North, where they care for someone else’s children while leaving their own behind. But what happens when this story unfolds within the Global South, in a context marked