Dr Jo Aubrey is a qualified youth and community worker with significant experience work of with young people both in the UK and in central and eastern Europe as a senior manager, consultant and academic.
She is currently a Senior Lecturer and Programme Director for Youth and Community Work at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She teaches at undergraduate and post-graduate levels and her specialism include the sociology of childhood and youth, safeguarding and the global dimensions of youth work. Her research interests include social action and youth work, research methods with children and young people and community-based participatory action research.