Beyond the 'Engagement' Paradigm: participating in youth lives in rural Somerset

Special Initiative funding for Grand Challenges in 2017/18

Dr Alison Macdonald, from UCL's Department of Anthropology, collaborated with Lasse Johansson a documentary filmmaker at UCL, and Sally Dennehy a state school teacher in Somerset, to produce a film aimed at understanding adolescence in the context of permanent school exclusion in non-selective state schools and to challenge societal misconceptions about the ‘excluded kid’.