Professor Sinead Gormally

  • Professor of Community Development and Youth (People, Place & Social Change)

telephone: 0141 330 2401
email: Sinead.Gormally@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 654, Level 6, St Andrew's Building, 11 Eldon Street, Glasgow, G3 6NH

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025

Biography

I am a Professor of Community Development and Youth in the School of Education. I am a qualified community and youth work practitioner and have worked in the UK and abroad with a range of communities and young people. 

My current research falls into two categories. The first focuses on social justice and equality, analysing how youth and community practitioners can create positive social change. The second area of interest focusses on the impact of violence and conflict on individuals and communities. 

My academic teaching and research focuses on Community Development, Youth Work, Social Justice, Equality and Rights-based work. I teach across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the School of Education. 

Additional current roles include:

  • Research and Training Group Lead for People, Place and Social Change.
  • Member of the Executive Committee of the Community, Learning and Development (CLD) Standards Board for Scotland
  • Board of Directors for the Professional Association for Lecturers in Community and Youth Work (Research Director)

Research interests

My research is focused broadly within the fields of Youth Work and Community Development.

I am currently working on a project analysing Eucational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises. 

https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/education/research/currentresearchprojects/educationalpeacebuildinginmedellinandacapulco/  

 

I have also recently undertaken work in a number of areas (please see publications) specifically relating to young people and communities, including-

  • Social Justice and Equality practice and policy
  • Youth work and community development as emancipatory praxis
  • Community Development and Peacebuilding
  • The impact of Brexit on youth work
  • Domestic abuse
  • Coercive control
  • Youth justice

Publications

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2025

Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Maguire, Abigail and Seal, Mike (Eds.) (2025) Higher Education, Community Connections and Collaborations. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781350430754

Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Maguire, Abigail and Seal, Mike (2025) Conclusion: Principles and practices for meaningful community engagement in Higher Education. In: Gormally, Sinéad, Maguire, Abigail and Seal, Mike (eds.) Higher Education, Community Connections and Collaborations. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781350430754

Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Maguire, Abigail and Seal, Mike (2025) Introduction: Are community connections and collaborations possible in Higher Education? In: Gormally, Sinéad, Maguire, Abigail and Seal, Mike (eds.) Higher Education, Community Connections and Collaborations. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781350430754

Hughes, Gill, Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Smith, Christine and Glazer, Sebastian (2025) The role of community and youth work in supporting universities meaningful engagement with communities. In: Gormally, Sinéad, Maguire, Abigail and Seal, Mike (eds.) Higher Education, Community Connections and Collaborations. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781350430754

2024

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Vega, Nohora Niño, Muñoz, Jeronimo Castillo, Rueda, Manuela Suárez, Jiménez, Javiera Donoso, Rivera, Alejandro Bahena and Mendoza, Sergio Hernández (2024) A Tale of Two Cities: Recovering community spaces for peacebuilding in Medellín and Acapulco. In: Yohannes, HyabTeklehaimanot, Phipps, Alison and Sitholé, Tawona (eds.) Cultures of Sustainable Peace: Conflict Transformation, Gender-Based Violence, Decolonial Praxes. Multilingual Matters. ISBN 9781800418349 (In Press)

Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Howard, Frances and Seal, Mike (2024) Special issue editorial: Youth work pracademia: creativity, community and meaningful careers. Journal of Applied Youth Studies, (doi: 10.1007/s43151-024-00135-0) (Early Online Publication)

Burton, Victoria and Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2024) ‘How dare you call that playground banter?!’: Service provider perspectives on coercive control and young people. Children and Society, 38(2), pp. 547-562. (doi: 10.1111/chso.12724)

2023

Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Bahena-Rivera, Alejandro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031 (2023) What would peace look like in Acapulco? The views of local practitioners and stakeholders. Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, (doi: 10.1177/15423166231179239) (Early Online Publication)

2022

Eversley, John, Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Kilmurray, Avila (Eds.) (2022) Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development. Series: Rethinking Community Development. Policy Press. ISBN 9781447359333

Eversley, John, Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Kilmurray, Avila (2022) Drawing the threads together. In: Eversley, John, Gormally, Sinead and Kilmurray, Avila (eds.) Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development. Series: Rethinking Community Development. Policy Press. ISBN 9781447359340

Eversley, John, Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Kilmurray, Avila (2022) Introduction. In: Eversley, John, Gormally, Sinead and Kilmurray, Avila (eds.) Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development. Series: Rethinking Community Development. Policy Press. ISBN 9781447359340

Curran, Sheila, Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Smith, Christine (2022) Re-imagining approaches to learning and teaching: youth and community work education post COVID-19. Education Sciences, 12(3), 201. (doi: 10.3390/educsci12030201)

2021

Arizpe, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, S. (2021) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises. Briefing Paper 5: Medellin's cultural transformation. Documentation. CR&DALL.

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Coburn, Annette and Beggan, Edward (2021) Idealistic assertions or realistic possibilities in community and youth work education. Education Sciences, 11(9), 561. (doi: 10.3390/educsci11090561)

Moskal, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4483-9310, Odena, O. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6009-7842, Arizpe, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Pacheco, E.-M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9467-1099, Dagar, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3760-9189 and Aldegheri, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8238-0021 (2021) Education, Culture and Learning in Response to Conflict and Protracted Crisis [Symposium]. Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 65th Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, 25-29 Apr 2021.

Arizpe, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, S. (2021) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises. Briefing Paper 4: Mapping cultural and nonformal education at the community level in Acapulco. Documentation. CR&DALL.

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Boath, Lauren ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4942-8430, Farrar, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7128-6355, Martin, Helen and Nicholson, Joyce ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2921-2045 (2021) Disrupting Boundaries to Build Bridges. Crossing Boundaries and Building Bridges: ICSEI Virtual Congress 2021, 8-9, 17-18 Mar 2021.

Arizpe, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, S. (2021) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises. Briefing paper 3: The role of Stakeholders in Peacebuilding. Documentation. CR&DALL.

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, Alejandro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, Sergio (2021) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the Role of Education, Culture and Learning in Responding to Crises. Project Report. Low and Middle Income Countries Research Network (LMIC). (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.260007).

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Martin, Helen, McDonald, A. and McGreechin, A. (2021) Activate +, University of Glasgow and The Place Standard Tool. Project Report. University of Glasgow.

2020

Arizpe, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, S. (2020) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises. Briefing Paper 2: Key Public policies for peacebuilding in Medellin. Documentation. CR&DALL.

Arizpe, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, S. (2020) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises. Briefing Paper 1: Public Policies and Peacebuilding. Documentation. CR&DALL.

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Beggan, Edward and Coburn, Annette (2020) Community, COVID-19, challenge and change. [Website]

Coburn, Annette and Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2020) Defining well-being in community development from the ground up: a case study of participant and practitioner perspectives. Community Development Journal, 55(2), pp. 237-257. (doi: 10.1093/cdj/bsy048)

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2020) "It' not being racist, but ... ": a youth gang and the creation of belonging based on "othering". Boyhood Studies, 12(2), pp. 70-88. (doi: 10.3167/bhs.2019.120205)

2019

Coburn, Annette and Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2019) Youth work: converging and diverging responses in England and Scotland. Concept: The Journal of Contemporary Community Education Practice and Theory, 10(3),

Coburn, Annette and Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2019) Creating educational synergies. Youth and Policy,

Brennan, Iain R., Burton, Victoria, Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and O'Leary, Nicola (2019) Service provider difficulties in operationalising coercive control. Violence Against Women, 25(6), pp. 635-653. (doi: 10.1177/1077801218797478)

Coburn, Annette and Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2019) Youth work education: is the voluntary principle no longer reliable in defining youth work? Concept: The Journal of Contemporary Community Education Practice and Theory, 10(1),

2017

Coburn, Annette and Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2017) Beyond Brexit: the impact of leaving the EU on the youth work sector. Youth and Policy,

Cleaver, E., Wills, D., Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Grey, David, Johnson, Colin and Rippingale, Julie (2017) Connecting research and teaching through curricular and pedagogic design: from theory to practice in disciplinary approaches to connecting the higher education curriculum. In: Fung, Dilly (ed.) A Connected Curriculum for Higher Education. UCL Press: London. ISBN 9781911576334

Coburn, Annette and Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2017) Cohesion, commonality and creativity: youth work across borders. In: Dzigurski, Sever (ed.) Europe in Transition: Diversity, Identity and Youth Work. SALTO Cultural Diversity Resource Centre, pp. 46-51.

Coburn, Annette and Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2017) Communities for Social Change: Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work. Series: Counterpoints: studies in criticality, 483. Peter Lang: New York. ISBN 9781433129773 (doi: 10.3726/b11265)

2016

Brennan, Iain, Burton, Vicky, Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and O'Leary, Nicola Jane Maria (2016) An Exploration of Domestic Abuse Patterns and Service Provision in Humberside. Project Report. University of Hull.

Coburn, A. and Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2016) The Voluntary Principle in Youth Work. In: In Defence of Youth Work Campaign, Birmingham, UK, 2016,

2015

Cooper, Charlie, Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hughes, Gill (Eds.) (2015) Socially-Just, Radical Alternatives for Education and Youth Work Practice: Re-Imagining Ways of Working with Young People. Palgrave Macmillan: Basinstoke. ISBN 9781137393586

Coburn, A. and Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2015) Clydebank Women’s Aid Youth Service: Responding to Young People whose Lives Have Been Impacted by Domestic Abuse. Project Report. University of West of Scotland and University of Hull.

Coburn, A. and Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2015) Youth Work as Emancipatory Practice. In: Journal of Youth Studies Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 30 March - 1 Apr 2015,

Coburn, Annette and Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2015) Emancipatory praxis: a social-justice approach to equality work. In: Socially-Just, Radical Alternatives for Education and Youth Work Practice: Re-Imagining Ways of Working with Young People. Palgrave Macmillan: Basinstoke, pp. 65-84. ISBN 9781137393586 (doi: 10.1057/9781137393593_4)

Coburn, Annette and Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2015) Youth work in schools. In: Bright, Graham (ed.) Youth Work: Histories, Policy and Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan: Basinstoke. ISBN 9781137434395

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2015) 'I've been there, done that...: A study of youth gang desistancr. Youth Justice, 15(2), pp. 148-165. (doi: 10.1177/1473225414549679)

2014

Hughes, Gill, Cooper, Charlie, Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Rippingale, Julie (2014) The state of youth work in austerity England – reclaiming the ability to ‘care’. Youth and Policy, 113, pp. 1-14.

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Coburn, Annette (2014) Finding Nexus: connecting youth work and research practices. British Educational Research Journal, 40(5), pp. 869-885. (doi: 10.1002/berj.3118)

Coburn, Annette and Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2014) ‘They know what you are going through’: a service response to young people who have experienced the impact of domestic abuse. Journal of Youth Studies, 17(5), pp. 642-663. (doi: 10.1080/13676261.2013.844779)

Deuchar, R., Miller, J. and Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2014) The Impact of Aberlour Youthpoint’s Detached Streetwork and Youth Service Programme on the Building of Social Capital among Children and Young People in Glasgow. Project Report. Childcare Aberlour Trust/Big Lottery.

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2014) The complexities, contradictions and consequences of being ‘anti-social’ in Northern Ireland. In: Pickard, Sarah (ed.) Anti-Social Behaviour in Britain: Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan: Basinstoke, pp. 179-191. ISBN 9781137399304

2013

Coburn, A. and Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2013) Building Blocks to Alternative Discourse: Salutogenic Relationships in Youth Work. In: The Professional Association of Lecturers in Youth and Community Work (TAG), Maynooth, Ireland, 2013,

Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2013) The Complexities, Contradictions and Consequences of Being ‘Anti-Social’ in Northern Ireland. In: New Agendas on Youth and Young Adulthoods: Youth Studies Conference, Glasgow, UK, 8-10 Apr 2013,

Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2013) A Social Justice Approach to Community Development Social Justice Philanthropy: Implications for Practice and Policy. In: National Council for Voluntary Organisations, London, UK, 2013,

2012

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2012) A social justice approach to community development. Working for Change: The Irish Journal of Community Work, 3,

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Deuchar, Ross (2012) Somewhere between distrust and dependence: young people, the police and anti-social behaviour management within marginalised communities. International Journal on School Dissatisfaction, 9(1), pp. 51-66. (doi: 10.18546/IJSD.09.1.05)

Deuchar, R. and Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2012) In the Space of an Hour or Something, You’ve Been Stopped and Searched About Six Times. In: Youth in Crisis Conference, Paisley, Scotland, 21-22 Feb 2012,

Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Coburn, A. (2012) They Know What You are Going Through’: Providing Support and Preventing Isolation Among Young People who Have Experienced the Impact of Domestic Abuse. In: Maynooth International Youth Studies Conference, Maynooth, Ireland, 2012,

Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Sercombe, H. (2012) Defending Your People: The Role of Street Gangs in Maintaining the Integrity of Economically Deprived Communities. In: Maynooth International Youth Studies Conference, Maynooth, Ireland, 2012,

Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Sercombe, H. (2012) Defending Your People: The Role of Street Gangs in Maintaining the Integrity of Economically Deprived Communities. In: Youth in Crisis Conference, Paisley, Scotland, 21-22 Feb 2012,

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2012) Social Justice and Poverty (Panel Paper). In: Youth in Crisis Conference, Paisley, Scotland, 21-22 Feb 2012,

2011

Cobrun, A. and Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2011) Providing Support and Preventing Isolation: An Evaluation of Clydebank Women’s Aid Children and Young People’s Service. Project Report. University of Strathclyde.

Gormally, B. and Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2011) Evaluation of Wave’s EU Peace III funded ‘Back to the Future Project’. Project Report. Justice Associates.

2010

Deuchar, R. and Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2010) Exploring the Lives, Relationships and Views of Young People who Identify with Gang Membership on One Area of Glasgow. In: Annual British Sociological Association Conference, Glasgow, UK, 7-9 Apr 2010,

Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2010) What is the Agreement Between Youth Gangs and Their Local Communities? In: Annual British Sociological Association Conference, Glasgow, UK, 7-9 Apr 2010,

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2010) Young People being able to approach other young people to help themselves and each other”: An examination of how YouthBanks empower young people. Journal of Youth Work: Research and Positive Practices in Work with Young People, 3, pp. 29-46.

2009

Wallace, D. and Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2009) Making a Difference: YouthBank Evaluation Report. Project Report. University of Strathclyde.

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Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Howard, Frances and Seal, Mike (2024) Special issue editorial: Youth work pracademia: creativity, community and meaningful careers. Journal of Applied Youth Studies, (doi: 10.1007/s43151-024-00135-0) (Early Online Publication)

Burton, Victoria and Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2024) ‘How dare you call that playground banter?!’: Service provider perspectives on coercive control and young people. Children and Society, 38(2), pp. 547-562. (doi: 10.1111/chso.12724)

Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994 and Bahena-Rivera, Alejandro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031 (2023) What would peace look like in Acapulco? The views of local practitioners and stakeholders. Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, (doi: 10.1177/15423166231179239) (Early Online Publication)

Curran, Sheila, Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Smith, Christine (2022) Re-imagining approaches to learning and teaching: youth and community work education post COVID-19. Education Sciences, 12(3), 201. (doi: 10.3390/educsci12030201)

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Coburn, Annette and Beggan, Edward (2021) Idealistic assertions or realistic possibilities in community and youth work education. Education Sciences, 11(9), 561. (doi: 10.3390/educsci11090561)

Coburn, Annette and Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2020) Defining well-being in community development from the ground up: a case study of participant and practitioner perspectives. Community Development Journal, 55(2), pp. 237-257. (doi: 10.1093/cdj/bsy048)

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2020) "It' not being racist, but ... ": a youth gang and the creation of belonging based on "othering". Boyhood Studies, 12(2), pp. 70-88. (doi: 10.3167/bhs.2019.120205)

Coburn, Annette and Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2019) Youth work: converging and diverging responses in England and Scotland. Concept: The Journal of Contemporary Community Education Practice and Theory, 10(3),

Coburn, Annette and Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2019) Creating educational synergies. Youth and Policy,

Brennan, Iain R., Burton, Victoria, Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and O'Leary, Nicola (2019) Service provider difficulties in operationalising coercive control. Violence Against Women, 25(6), pp. 635-653. (doi: 10.1177/1077801218797478)

Coburn, Annette and Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2019) Youth work education: is the voluntary principle no longer reliable in defining youth work? Concept: The Journal of Contemporary Community Education Practice and Theory, 10(1),

Coburn, Annette and Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2017) Beyond Brexit: the impact of leaving the EU on the youth work sector. Youth and Policy,

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2015) 'I've been there, done that...: A study of youth gang desistancr. Youth Justice, 15(2), pp. 148-165. (doi: 10.1177/1473225414549679)

Hughes, Gill, Cooper, Charlie, Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Rippingale, Julie (2014) The state of youth work in austerity England – reclaiming the ability to ‘care’. Youth and Policy, 113, pp. 1-14.

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Coburn, Annette (2014) Finding Nexus: connecting youth work and research practices. British Educational Research Journal, 40(5), pp. 869-885. (doi: 10.1002/berj.3118)

Coburn, Annette and Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2014) ‘They know what you are going through’: a service response to young people who have experienced the impact of domestic abuse. Journal of Youth Studies, 17(5), pp. 642-663. (doi: 10.1080/13676261.2013.844779)

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2012) A social justice approach to community development. Working for Change: The Irish Journal of Community Work, 3,

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Deuchar, Ross (2012) Somewhere between distrust and dependence: young people, the police and anti-social behaviour management within marginalised communities. International Journal on School Dissatisfaction, 9(1), pp. 51-66. (doi: 10.18546/IJSD.09.1.05)

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2010) Young People being able to approach other young people to help themselves and each other”: An examination of how YouthBanks empower young people. Journal of Youth Work: Research and Positive Practices in Work with Young People, 3, pp. 29-46.

Books

Coburn, Annette and Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2017) Communities for Social Change: Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work. Series: Counterpoints: studies in criticality, 483. Peter Lang: New York. ISBN 9781433129773 (doi: 10.3726/b11265)

Book Sections

Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Maguire, Abigail and Seal, Mike (2025) Conclusion: Principles and practices for meaningful community engagement in Higher Education. In: Gormally, Sinéad, Maguire, Abigail and Seal, Mike (eds.) Higher Education, Community Connections and Collaborations. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781350430754

Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Maguire, Abigail and Seal, Mike (2025) Introduction: Are community connections and collaborations possible in Higher Education? In: Gormally, Sinéad, Maguire, Abigail and Seal, Mike (eds.) Higher Education, Community Connections and Collaborations. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781350430754

Hughes, Gill, Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Smith, Christine and Glazer, Sebastian (2025) The role of community and youth work in supporting universities meaningful engagement with communities. In: Gormally, Sinéad, Maguire, Abigail and Seal, Mike (eds.) Higher Education, Community Connections and Collaborations. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781350430754

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Vega, Nohora Niño, Muñoz, Jeronimo Castillo, Rueda, Manuela Suárez, Jiménez, Javiera Donoso, Rivera, Alejandro Bahena and Mendoza, Sergio Hernández (2024) A Tale of Two Cities: Recovering community spaces for peacebuilding in Medellín and Acapulco. In: Yohannes, HyabTeklehaimanot, Phipps, Alison and Sitholé, Tawona (eds.) Cultures of Sustainable Peace: Conflict Transformation, Gender-Based Violence, Decolonial Praxes. Multilingual Matters. ISBN 9781800418349 (In Press)

Eversley, John, Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Kilmurray, Avila (2022) Drawing the threads together. In: Eversley, John, Gormally, Sinead and Kilmurray, Avila (eds.) Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development. Series: Rethinking Community Development. Policy Press. ISBN 9781447359340

Eversley, John, Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Kilmurray, Avila (2022) Introduction. In: Eversley, John, Gormally, Sinead and Kilmurray, Avila (eds.) Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development. Series: Rethinking Community Development. Policy Press. ISBN 9781447359340

Cleaver, E., Wills, D., Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Grey, David, Johnson, Colin and Rippingale, Julie (2017) Connecting research and teaching through curricular and pedagogic design: from theory to practice in disciplinary approaches to connecting the higher education curriculum. In: Fung, Dilly (ed.) A Connected Curriculum for Higher Education. UCL Press: London. ISBN 9781911576334

Coburn, Annette and Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2017) Cohesion, commonality and creativity: youth work across borders. In: Dzigurski, Sever (ed.) Europe in Transition: Diversity, Identity and Youth Work. SALTO Cultural Diversity Resource Centre, pp. 46-51.

Coburn, Annette and Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2015) Emancipatory praxis: a social-justice approach to equality work. In: Socially-Just, Radical Alternatives for Education and Youth Work Practice: Re-Imagining Ways of Working with Young People. Palgrave Macmillan: Basinstoke, pp. 65-84. ISBN 9781137393586 (doi: 10.1057/9781137393593_4)

Coburn, Annette and Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2015) Youth work in schools. In: Bright, Graham (ed.) Youth Work: Histories, Policy and Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan: Basinstoke. ISBN 9781137434395

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2014) The complexities, contradictions and consequences of being ‘anti-social’ in Northern Ireland. In: Pickard, Sarah (ed.) Anti-Social Behaviour in Britain: Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan: Basinstoke, pp. 179-191. ISBN 9781137399304

Edited Books

Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Maguire, Abigail and Seal, Mike (Eds.) (2025) Higher Education, Community Connections and Collaborations. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781350430754

Eversley, John, Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Kilmurray, Avila (Eds.) (2022) Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development. Series: Rethinking Community Development. Policy Press. ISBN 9781447359333

Cooper, Charlie, Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hughes, Gill (Eds.) (2015) Socially-Just, Radical Alternatives for Education and Youth Work Practice: Re-Imagining Ways of Working with Young People. Palgrave Macmillan: Basinstoke. ISBN 9781137393586

Research Reports or Papers

Arizpe, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, S. (2021) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises. Briefing Paper 5: Medellin's cultural transformation. Documentation. CR&DALL.

Arizpe, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, S. (2021) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises. Briefing Paper 4: Mapping cultural and nonformal education at the community level in Acapulco. Documentation. CR&DALL.

Arizpe, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, S. (2021) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises. Briefing paper 3: The role of Stakeholders in Peacebuilding. Documentation. CR&DALL.

Arizpe, Evelyn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, Alejandro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, Sergio (2021) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the Role of Education, Culture and Learning in Responding to Crises. Project Report. Low and Middle Income Countries Research Network (LMIC). (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.260007).

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Martin, Helen, McDonald, A. and McGreechin, A. (2021) Activate +, University of Glasgow and The Place Standard Tool. Project Report. University of Glasgow.

Arizpe, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, S. (2020) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises. Briefing Paper 2: Key Public policies for peacebuilding in Medellin. Documentation. CR&DALL.

Arizpe, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Bahena-Rivera, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6618-4031, Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Hernandez Mendoza, S. (2020) Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises. Briefing Paper 1: Public Policies and Peacebuilding. Documentation. CR&DALL.

Brennan, Iain, Burton, Vicky, Gormally, Sinéad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and O'Leary, Nicola Jane Maria (2016) An Exploration of Domestic Abuse Patterns and Service Provision in Humberside. Project Report. University of Hull.

Coburn, A. and Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2015) Clydebank Women’s Aid Youth Service: Responding to Young People whose Lives Have Been Impacted by Domestic Abuse. Project Report. University of West of Scotland and University of Hull.

Deuchar, R., Miller, J. and Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2014) The Impact of Aberlour Youthpoint’s Detached Streetwork and Youth Service Programme on the Building of Social Capital among Children and Young People in Glasgow. Project Report. Childcare Aberlour Trust/Big Lottery.

Cobrun, A. and Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2011) Providing Support and Preventing Isolation: An Evaluation of Clydebank Women’s Aid Children and Young People’s Service. Project Report. University of Strathclyde.

Gormally, B. and Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2011) Evaluation of Wave’s EU Peace III funded ‘Back to the Future Project’. Project Report. Justice Associates.

Wallace, D. and Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2009) Making a Difference: YouthBank Evaluation Report. Project Report. University of Strathclyde.

Conference or Workshop Item

Moskal, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4483-9310, Odena, O. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6009-7842, Arizpe, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0021-0994, Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Pacheco, E.-M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9467-1099, Dagar, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3760-9189 and Aldegheri, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8238-0021 (2021) Education, Culture and Learning in Response to Conflict and Protracted Crisis [Symposium]. Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) 65th Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, 25-29 Apr 2021.

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Boath, Lauren ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4942-8430, Farrar, Jennifer ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7128-6355, Martin, Helen and Nicholson, Joyce ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2921-2045 (2021) Disrupting Boundaries to Build Bridges. Crossing Boundaries and Building Bridges: ICSEI Virtual Congress 2021, 8-9, 17-18 Mar 2021.

Conference Proceedings

Coburn, A. and Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2016) The Voluntary Principle in Youth Work. In: In Defence of Youth Work Campaign, Birmingham, UK, 2016,

Coburn, A. and Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2015) Youth Work as Emancipatory Practice. In: Journal of Youth Studies Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 30 March - 1 Apr 2015,

Coburn, A. and Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2013) Building Blocks to Alternative Discourse: Salutogenic Relationships in Youth Work. In: The Professional Association of Lecturers in Youth and Community Work (TAG), Maynooth, Ireland, 2013,

Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2013) The Complexities, Contradictions and Consequences of Being ‘Anti-Social’ in Northern Ireland. In: New Agendas on Youth and Young Adulthoods: Youth Studies Conference, Glasgow, UK, 8-10 Apr 2013,

Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2013) A Social Justice Approach to Community Development Social Justice Philanthropy: Implications for Practice and Policy. In: National Council for Voluntary Organisations, London, UK, 2013,

Deuchar, R. and Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2012) In the Space of an Hour or Something, You’ve Been Stopped and Searched About Six Times. In: Youth in Crisis Conference, Paisley, Scotland, 21-22 Feb 2012,

Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Coburn, A. (2012) They Know What You are Going Through’: Providing Support and Preventing Isolation Among Young People who Have Experienced the Impact of Domestic Abuse. In: Maynooth International Youth Studies Conference, Maynooth, Ireland, 2012,

Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Sercombe, H. (2012) Defending Your People: The Role of Street Gangs in Maintaining the Integrity of Economically Deprived Communities. In: Maynooth International Youth Studies Conference, Maynooth, Ireland, 2012,

Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 and Sercombe, H. (2012) Defending Your People: The Role of Street Gangs in Maintaining the Integrity of Economically Deprived Communities. In: Youth in Crisis Conference, Paisley, Scotland, 21-22 Feb 2012,

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2012) Social Justice and Poverty (Panel Paper). In: Youth in Crisis Conference, Paisley, Scotland, 21-22 Feb 2012,

Deuchar, R. and Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2010) Exploring the Lives, Relationships and Views of Young People who Identify with Gang Membership on One Area of Glasgow. In: Annual British Sociological Association Conference, Glasgow, UK, 7-9 Apr 2010,

Gormally, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025 (2010) What is the Agreement Between Youth Gangs and Their Local Communities? In: Annual British Sociological Association Conference, Glasgow, UK, 7-9 Apr 2010,

Website

Gormally, Sinead ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3151-1025, Beggan, Edward and Coburn, Annette (2020) Community, COVID-19, challenge and change. [Website]

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Grants

Current - Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises

  • Co-I - British Academy GCRF

Activate + and Place Standard Tool

  • Collaboratively evaluating the use of PST with Community Development Students

Blackpool Better Start Baseline Evaluation

  • An evaluation of the Centre for Early Child Development (Blackpool) Community Development Approach 

An Exploration of Domestic Abuse Patterns and Service Provision in Humberside.

  • Commissioned by Humberside Police to explore whether there was an increase in the severity of domestic abuse cases happening across the region (with Dr. Brenan, Ms. Burton and Dr. O'Leary, University of Hull)

Women's Aid - Evaluation of Children and Young People's Service.

  •  Using participatory methodologies, explored the impact of domestic abuse on children and young people in Glasgow (with Dr. Coburn, UWS)

Foundations for Peace Evaluation, The Community Foundation for Northern Ireland

  • Evaluation of the Foundations for Peace youth initiatives programme, which works across the world in areas of conflict

Wave Evaluation, Justice Associates, Northern Ireland

  • Evaluation of Wave’s EU Peace III funded ‘Back to the Future Project’ which included interviews with young people and their parents who had been negatively affected by the conflict in Northern Ireland 

Women’s Aid Evaluation of Children and Young People’s Service, The centre for Youth Work Studies at the University of Strathclyde

  • Used participatory methods, including film, to engage with young people who had been victims of domestic abuse and conducted interviews with partners and staff of WA (with Dr. Coburn, UWS)

YouthBank Evaluation, The centre for Youth Work Studies at the University of Strathclyde

  • Interviewing young people on their views of YouthBanks (with Mr. Wallace, UWS)

Supervision

I welcome new PhD and EdD students and am currently supervising-

Louise Donoghue - Social Prescribing: What happens when artists are asked to cure structural ills?

Lindsay Snodgrass - Experiences of care experienced learners in Scotland’s Further Education (FE)

Chris Brandie - Stories of promoted pastoral support teachers in Scottish secondary schools.

 

  • Amaglo Mensah, Timothy Dziedzom
    “Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters” Exploring Education for Peacebuilding in Ethnopolitical Conflict Zones in Northern Ghana.
  • Sneed, Haley D
    An Investigation of Young People’s Perspectives on the Effectiveness of Scottish Youth Work in Supporting Wellbeing in COVID-19 Times.

Teaching

Social Justice and Contemporary Issues (BA Hons Community Development 3rd year) 

Beyond the School Walls: Families, Communities and Public Spaces in Education (Master of Education with Teaching Qualification, Primary)

 

Contribute to:-

Into Headship (PgCert)

In Headship

Adult Education, Community Development and Youth Work (MEd/PgDip)


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