A centre for intellectual leadership in the field of personal, leadership and organisation development with both young people and adults.

The Brathay Academy supports Brathay’s learning community; dedicated to furthering the understanding of experiential learning and to sharing best practice, which fulfils the Trust’s objectives of investigation and research into questions affecting the education of young people and the development of staff working with young people.

Key Activities

Research

Academy supports pure and applied research and evaluation projects within our field

Thought leadership

• Practice and product development
• Theory development, including the definition of Brathay’s intellectual property
• Dissemination and exploitation of theory, research & best practice (internally and externally)
• Advocacy
• Conferences and seminars
• Influence of government, NGO’s, education/youth work/management learning fields and public opinion
• Forums
• Provision of library & archives
• Partnerships with appropriate professional, academic and other institutions and individuals, acting as a focus of Brathay’s networks
• Consultancy

Publishing

• Website
• Research papers and reports
• Topical papers
• Press articles and other media presence
• Newsletters
• Conference papers
• Books

Practitioner development

• Children’s Workforce
• Studentships
• Internal staff development workshops and resources
• The development of reflective practice