Season 3, Episode 13, Luke Billingham on the impact of the terrifying abyss of insignificance on our young people

Luke Billingham, part-time researcher, part-time youth worker, talks all things about shifting the lens on how we view youth violence, the significance of mattering and how we need to step away from 'boundaries receptacles for blame'.

Here's a link to the "Terrifying abyss of insignificance" paper: https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/1185/1395

Worth mentioning that the title of that paper is a quote from a brilliant book by Tony Ellis: https://www.routledge.com/Men-Masculinities-and-Violence-An-ethnographic-study/Ellis/p/book/9781138040274)

Here's a link to Against Youth Violence (available for pre-order; out in October): https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/against-youth-violence

Here's a link to Hackney Quest's site, where Luke works part-time: https://www.hackneyquest.org.uk/

Here's a link to the research project Luke is working on with the OU: https://changingviolence.org/

Twitter: @lbilli91
Twitter: @_lisacherry