Professor Jon Ord

PhD - Curriculum and Experiential Learning in Youth Work (University of Wales)

PG Diploma in Youth & Community Work (University of Lancaster)

PG Cert in Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy (University of Sheffield)

BA Joint Hons in Philosophy & Physical Education (University of Wales)

• Youth Work Theory and Practice
• Informal Education
• Social Policy
• Youth Policy
• Management of Work with Young People

Research Interests

• Youth work theory and practice
• Social policy, in particular youth policy
• Curriculum
• Management of services for young people
• Outdoor and experiential education

Research Grants

Project title: ‘Developing and Communicating the Impact of Youth work across Europe’  - Erasmus Plus  - €302, 104 Co investigators  - University of Bari, University of Toulouse, Helsinki University of Applied Sciences and Tallin University, Grant number: 2015-3-UK01-KA205-022861.
Value of award to PI 99,600 Euros – Start date Feb, 2016 – end date Oct, 2018

Implementation of Transformative Evaluation in Western Australia  – Edith Cowans University Perth & Youth Affairs Council WA, 200,000 AUD, value to Marjon 16,000 AUD, Principal investigator; Start date Jan 2018 – end date 30th August 2018

Implementation of Transformative Evaluation in Scotland – NHS Scotland / University of Edinburgh - £25,000, Principal investigator; Start date 1st Feb 2017 – end date 30th June 2018

Research Outputs

see publications

Books:

• Ord, J. (ed) with Carletti, M. Cooper, S Dansac, C. Morciano, D. Sirula, L, Taru, M. (2018)The Impact of Youth Work: A study of five European Countries, Helsinki: HUMAK
• Jeffs, T.  & Ord, J. (eds.) (2017) Outdoor, Experiential and Informal Education: Beyond the Confines, London: Routledge.
• Ord, J (2016) Youth Work Process, Product & Practice(2nd ed), London: Routledge
• Ord, J. (2012) (ed.) Critical Issues in Youth Work Management. London: Routledge
• Ord, J (2007) Youth Work Process, Product & Practice: Creating an authentic curriculum in work with young people. Lyme Regis: RHP

Journal articles:

• Elsen, F. & Ord, J. (2023) ‘You don’t get Ditched’ - Young People, Mental Health, and Youth Work: Challenging Dominant Perspectives, Youth 2023, 3(4), 1429-1440;  DOI: 10.3390/youth3040090
• Ord, J.; Jeffs, T. (2023) Friendship: The ‘Achilles Heel’ of European Youth Work Policy. Youth 2023, 3, 1268–1283. DOI: 10.3390/youth3040080
• Ord, J. (2022) Young People, Youth Work and the ‘Levelling up’ Agenda, for the special edition of Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit Vol. 37 (1-2) 104–117. https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1177%2F02690942221098971&data=05%7C02%7CHThewlis%40marjon.ac.uk%7Cb4f0686ed62046e541aa08dc18182703%7Ca41bf8ce4ce643ab9a8e7d66430473be%7C0%7C0%7C638411739209906997%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3RR5J5yYN3K8s02hxXpLOsHeJYfCoblDJJYioQcCTp8%3D&reserved=0
• Bainborough, E. & Ord, J. (2021) Trauma Informed Practice: A solution to some of the problems of targeted youth work in Youth & Policy. https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youthandpolicy.org%2Farticles%2Ftrauma-informed-practice%2F&data=05%7C02%7CHThewlis%40marjon.ac.uk%7Cb4f0686ed62046e541aa08dc18182703%7Ca41bf8ce4ce643ab9a8e7d66430473be%7C0%7C0%7C638411739209906997%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wiLYlWdTrYSO9m%2BIoS%2BXbj2ZE%2BE6j0WHPCyMfEG5WzU%3D&reserved=0
• Ord, J.  Carletti, M. Morciano, D. Siurala, L. Dansac, C., Taru,  M. Fyfe, I. Cooper, S. Kötsi, K. Sinisalo-Juha, E. & Zentner, M. (2021) European Youth Work Policy and Young People’s Experience of Open Access Youth Work, Journal of Social Policyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0047279421000143
• Ord, J. & Monks A. (2021) Food Poverty & Youth Work : A Community Response in Critical Social Policyhttp://doi.org/10.1177/0261018321996534
• Elsen, F. & Ord, J. (2021) The Role of Adults in ‘Youth Led’ Climate Groups in Frontiers in Political Science(Special Edition on Environmental Activism), org/10.3389/fpos.2021.641154
• Ord, J. (2020) Youth Work Curriculum in England: a process-based curriculum? InYouth & Policy available at: https://www.youthandpolicy.org/articles/the-national-youth-work-curriculum/
• Ord, J. (2020) Innovation as a Neoliberal ‘Silver Bullet’: Critical Reflections on the EU’s Erasmus + Key Action 2 in Discourse : Studies in the Cultural Politics of Educationhttps://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2020.1812053
• Cooper, S., Morciano, D., Scardigno, F. & Ord, J. (2019). ‘Transformative evaluation in youth work and its emancipatory role in Southern Italy’ inItalian Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol 3, pp. 133-152 DOI: 10.14658/pupj-ijse-2019-3-7
• Ord J. (2018) ‘La Carte du Terrain pour la Jeunesse et le Travail Communautaire’in the journal: Vers l'éducation Nouvelle France.
• Richie, D. & Ord, J. (2017) The Experience of Open Access Youth Work : the voice of young people, Journal of Youth Studies, Vol 20, issue 3, pp 269-282.
• Ord, J. (2017) ‘ La Jeunesse et le Travail Communautaire’en Royaume-Uni : questions d'actualité’ in the journal: Journal of Sociocultural Development and Practices, Issue 12, published by Université of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland.
• Wright, E. & Ord, J.  (2015) The Importance of Voice: Young People, Mental health and youth work in Youth & Policy, 115, pp 63-84.
• Ord,J. (2104) Aristotle's Phronesis and Youth Work: Beyond Instrumentality in Youth & Policy, Volume 112, 56-73
• Cooper, S. & Ord, J. (2014) Developing Know How: A particpatory Approach to Assessment in Journal of Vocational Education & TrainingVolume 66, Issue 4 Oct 2014 518- 536
• Murphy, C. & Ord, J. (2013) Youth Work and Self Disclosure in Journal of Ethics and Social Welfare, Volume 7, Issue no 4. 362 -341
• Ord, J. (2011) John Dewey & Experiential Learning: Developing the theory of youth work Youth & Policy. Issue number 108, Winter 2011
• Ord, J. & Leather, M. (2011) The Substance Beneath the Labels of Experiential Learning: The Importance of John Dewey for Outdoor Educators in the Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, Volume 15 III 13-23
• Ord, J. (2009) Experiential Learning in the UK: A Return to Dewey in International Journal of Life Long Education. Volume 28 IV
• Ord, J. (2009) ‘Thinking the Unthinkable Youth Work without Voluntary Participation’. Youth & PolicyIssue 103 Summer 2009
• Ord, J. (2008) ‘A Resolution to the Problem of Curriculum in Youth Work in the UK’. (translated into finish) The Finish Journal of Youth Research. Number 3 2008
• Ord, J. (2008) ‘A Curriculum for Youth Work: The UK Experience’ in Youth Studies Australia. Vol 28 no.1
• Ord, J. (2004) ‘Youth Work Curriculum & Transforming Youth Work Agenda’. Youth & Policy,Issue Number 83, Spring 2004
• Ord, J. (2004) ‘Youth Work Curriculum as Process, not as Outcome or Output to Aid Accountability’. Youth & Policy,Issue Number 85, Autumn 2004

Chapters:

• Ord, J. (2019) Youth Clubs: ‘Then & Now’ – ‘1960-65’ and ‘2015-18’ in Gilchrist, R.; Hodgson, T.; Tony Jeffs, T.; Spence, J.; Stanton, N. and Walker, J. Reflecting on the Past:  Essays in history of youth and community work.
• Ord, J. Davies B. (2018) ‘The Context of Youth Work in the UK’ in Ord, J. (ed) with Carletti, M. Cooper, S Dansac, C. Morciano, D. Sirula, L, Taru, M. (2018) The Impact of Youth Work : a study of five European Countries, Helsinki: HUMAK.
• Zentner, M. & Ord, J. (2018) ‘The context of European Youth Work Policy’ in Ord, J. (ed) with Carletti, M. Cooper, S Dansac, C. Morciano, D. Sirula, L, Taru, M. (2018) The Impact of Youth Work : a study of five European Countries, Helsinki: HUMAK.
• Ord, J. (2018) ‘Comparing the Impact of Youth Work across the UK, Finland, Estonia, France & Italy’ in Ord, J. (ed) with Carletti, M. Cooper, S Dansac, C. Morciano, D. Sirula, L, Taru, M. (2018) The Impact of Youth Work : a study of five European Countries, Helsinki: HUMAK.
• Ord, J. & Carletti, M. (2017 / 2018) Les programmes "Albermarle" (1960) et "Myplace"(2008) deux financement par l’Etat de la construction de Maisons de  Jeunes en Angleterre" in Besse, L. et Clarisse, C. Des lieux pour l'éducation populaire : histoire des équipements socioculturels, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes.
• Ord, J. & Leather M. (2017) ‘John Dewey and Experiential learning’ in Jeffs, T.  & Ord, J. Outdoor, Experiential and Informal Education: Beyond the Confines, London: Routledge.
• Ord, J. (2017) ‘Mountains as a Setting for informal Education’ in Jeffs, T.  & Ord, J. Outdoor, Experiential and Informal Education: Beyond the Confines, London: Routledge.
• Ord, J. & Mallabon, L. (2017) ‘Wilderness and Informal Education: The Educative Potential of Wild Places and Spaces’ in Jeffs, T. & Ord, J. Outdoor, Experiential and Informal Education: Beyond the Confines, London: Routledge.
• Ord, J. (2015) ‘Aristotle, Instrumentality and Youth Work Outcomes’, for Cousee & Williamson The History of Youth Work in Europe Volume 5, Brussels: Council of Europe Publishing.
• Ord, J. (2011) The Kingston Youth Service: Space, Place and the Albermarle Legacy in Gilchrist, R. et al (2011) Reflecting on the Past: Essays in history of youth and community work. Lyme Regis: RHP.
• Ord, J. (2012) Planning for Outcomes: A youth work problem, in Ord, J. (2012) (ed) Critical Issues in Youth Work Management. London: Routledge.
• Bunyan, P. & Ord, J. (2012) The Neo Liberal Policy Context of Youth Work Management in Ord, J. (2012) (ed) Critical Issues in Youth Work Management. London: Routledge.
• Harrison,R. & Ord, J. (2012) The  ‘Theory’ of Youth Work Management, in Ord, J. (2012) (ed) Critical Issues in Youth Work Management. London: Routledge.
• Fuller, P. & Ord, J. (2012) Reflections on the Dominant Cultures and Structures, in Ord, J. (2012) (ed) Critical Issues in Youth Work Management. London: Routledge.
• Ord, J. with Moustakim, M. Smith, C. & Wood, E.  (2012) Youth Centre Management: Managing buildings and beyond, in Ord, J. (2012) (ed) Critical Issues in Youth Work Management. London: Routledge.

Professional Association of Youth & Community Work Lecturers (PALYCW)

 Advisor to the DCMS / NYA National Curriculum for Youth Work (2021) - https://nya.org.uk/resource/nya-national-youth-work-curriculum/

 Jon is a trustee of Tavistock Youth Cafe.

When Jon is not working he enjoys being in the outdoors and is a keen swimmer, kayaker.

He spends much of his spare time walking on the moors around Tavistock with his Fox-Red Labrador Ronnie.