Anti-Racist Intercultural Youth Work Practice, Life World Orientations
Job title:
Senior Lecturer
Biography:
Dr Rick Bowler is a tutor on the Community and Youth Work Studies Programme at the University of Sunderland. Rick worked for 20 years outside of the academy in a range of professional fields including Mental Health, Youth Justice, Substance Misuse, Community Development and Youth Work. Since 1996 he has worked as an academic balancing reach out with research and teaching. His reach out work involved Rick in the early stages of development of Sunderland’s Young Asian Voices youth project and the Bangladeshi Cultural and Community Centre. Rick also served for 10 years on the Board of Directors of the North of England Refugee Service. As a researcher Rick has worked with Gypsies and Travellers, Bangladeshi elders, Refugees and Asylum seekers, Youth Workers as well as working class young peoplmore...
Dr Rick Bowler is a tutor on the Community and Youth Work Studies Programme at the University of Sunderland. Rick worked for 20 years outside of the academy in a range of professional fields including Mental Health, Youth Justice, Substance Misuse, Community Development and Youth Work. Since 1996 he has worked as an academic balancing reach out with research and teaching. His reach out work involved Rick in the early stages of development of Sunderland’s Young Asian Voices youth project and the Bangladeshi Cultural and Community Centre. Rick also served for 10 years on the Board of Directors of the North of England Refugee Service. As a researcher Rick has worked with Gypsies and Travellers, Bangladeshi elders, Refugees and Asylum seekers, Youth Workers as well as working class young people drawn from the Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and White communities. The criss-crossing themes arising from this work have helped Rick to maintain vigilance in the struggle for social and racial justice.
Rick is a critical race theorist. His pedagogical interests are focused on anti-racism, life-world orientations, social justice and intersectionality. Rick adopts a specific focus on the processes of racialisation in order to critique 'race' and enable students and practitioners to learn from their lives and think pedagogically about becoming critical professional workers.
