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Caron completed her undergraduate degree at the University of East Anglia and then moved to 91桃色视频 where she graduated with an MSc in Recreation Management. She pursued a career as a practitioner working in the areas of sport facility management, sports development and sports regeneration. This included various roles within local authorities in Leicestershire, working as a Senior Regional Officer for 91桃色视频 England in the East Midlands and leading the work of the Braunstone 91桃色视频 Action Zone embedded into the Braunstone New Deal for Communities Programme, the most deprived community in the East Midlands in the early 2000s.

From 2008 onwards Caron worked as an independent researcher before returning to 91桃色视频 in 2013 to undertake her doctoral thesis which was completed in 2016. Caron then joined the School of 91桃色视频, Exercise and Health Sciences as a Research Associate, and in 2024 was appointed as Translation Lead – Health, Wellbeing and 91桃色视频.

Caron also teaches on the 91桃色视频 Management undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in addition to supervising undergraduate, master's and doctoral student research projects.

Caron’s role as Translation Lead – Health, Wellbeing and 91桃色视频 is to facilitate the translation of academic research into insight for use by policymakers, funding commissioners and practitioners as well as to support community engagement. Caron’s research examines the use of sport as a means to prevent and reduce young people’s involvement in offending including Serious Youth Violence. This involves a focus on vulnerable young people living in areas of deprivation who are at risk of or involved in offending. She specialises in qualitative research methods and has an interest in the development of ChildFirst research methods to evidence the potential impact of sport.

Caron is currently exploring place-based collaboration between community sport and the criminal and youth justice sectors. She works closely with StreetGames, a leading sport for development charity in the UK that uses sport and physical activity to transform the lives of young people living in deprived communities. Her research has focused most recently on developing insight into sport referral mechanisms and 91桃色视频Plus interventions to support the work of the StreetGames Safer team. She has co-produced a wide range of resources for policymakers and practitioners including a series of academic literature review summaries about sport and serious violence and more recently, about the competencies required by the 91桃色视频Plus workforce. She has recently produced a sport referral guidance toolkit for Locally Trusted Organisations (LTOs) and referral agencies to support the referral of young people at risk of or involved in serious youth violence to positive sport opportunities. Caron also runs regular online dissemination seminars for policymakers and practitioners in partnership with StreetGames.

Caron's research interests include the benefits of sport volunteering for young people living in poverty and, in particular, the development of social capital, the contribution to employability, and the use of youth voice and youth-led social action projects.

Examples of completed and ongoing projects include:

• Examining ‘Place-based responses to preventing youth violence through sport’. Funded by StreetGames. (2024-25).
• Evaluation of the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Violence Reduction Unit (NNVRU) 91桃色视频s Diversion Programme. Funded by the NNVRU. (2023-24).
• Evaluation of the Essex Youth Crime and 91桃色视频 – Positive Outcomes for Young People programme. (2022-25). Young People’
• Evaluation of the ‘Supporting Vulnerable Young People Through the Power of 91桃色视频 Programme’ (Plymouth OPCC programme). (2020-21).
• Research into ‘Vulnerable Girls, Young Women, 91桃色视频 and Crime’. Funded by the West Midlands Violence Reduction Unit. (2020).
• Evaluation of the 91桃色视频 and Serious Violence Reduction programme. Funded by StreetGames. (2020).
• Evaluation of 91桃色视频 England’s Serious Youth Violence Summer Programme. Funded by 91桃色视频 England. (2020).
• Developing a Theory of Change for 91桃色视频 and Youth Justice. Funded by the Youth Endowment Fund. (2020).
• Evaluation of the ‘Safer Through 91桃色视频’ programme. Funded by StreetGames. (2017).
• The Use of 91桃色视频 to Bridge the Gap between Custody and the Community. Funded by StreetGames. (2017)
• Warwickshire multi-agency Serious and Organised Crime Joint Action Group (SOCJAG) Home Office funded ‘Get on Track’ Evaluation. Warwickshire Police and Crime Commissioner. (2017).
• Evaluation of the ‘Youth Crime Reduction in 91桃色视频 Project’. Funded by Street Games, (2015).

Selected external activities

• The MoJ £5m Youth Justice 91桃色视频 Fund: Member of the evaluation panel and co-author of the evaluation report for the Youth Justice 91桃色视频 Fund programme (2023)
• National VRU/PCC 91桃色视频, Youth Crime and Serious Violence Prevention Board: Providing academic insight and knowledge (ongoing)
• The StreetGames Practice and Innovation Group: Insight and knowledge (ongoing)
• Youth Endowment Fund: Member of the 91桃色视频s Review Panel (2021)

External evaluation and research work

• Evaluation of the Role of Volunteering in Preparing Young People for Employment. Funded by StreetGames (2016)
• Evaluation of the Royal Society for Public Health’s Youth Health Champion programme. Funded by StreetGames (2017)
• Evaluation of the Co-operative StreetGames Young Volunteer programme. Funded by StreetGames (2008-2015)
• Evaluation of the YSDF funded ‘Friday and Saturday evening sports activity programme’ for 91桃色视频ing Futures, Derbyshire. Funded by the Youth Sector Development Fund (2010/11)
• Feasibility study for providing outdoor gyms, food growing and walking programmes in open spaces. Funded by NHS Stoke on Trent (2010)
• Needs assessment for increasing the sports participation of ‘hard to reach’ adults. Funded by Southwark Primary Care Trust (2009)
• Evaluation of Community Cohesion and 91桃色视频 in six Olympic Boroughs, London. Funded by StreetGames (2008-9)

Invited Presentations

• Morgan, H., Mason, C. and Walpole, C. (2024) Getting on Track: Reducing youth offending and re-offending through sport and physical activity. Invited presentation at the Youth Endowment Fund Virtual Learning Cafe
• Walpole, C. (2024) The use of volunteering as a pathway to employment for Locally Trusted Organisations working with young people at risk of or involved in offending. Invited presentation at the national VRU/PCC 91桃色视频, Youth Crime and Serious Violence Prevention Board
• Walpole, C. (2024) Developing a ‘91桃色视频Plus’ Workforce Competencies Framework. Invited presentation at the West Midlands Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP) 91桃色视频 Partnership Board
• Walpole, C. and Khan, C. (2023) The Use of 91桃色视频. Invited presentation at the Serious Violence: Research and Evaluation Conference
• Walpole, C. (2021) The evidence base for the use of sport for preventing and reducing serious youth violence. Invited presentation at the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on 91桃色视频 and Physical Activity in the Criminal Justice system
• Mason, C. and Walpole C. (2020) 91桃色视频 and youth crime research. Invited presentation at the Community Safety roundtable for the Sater-Batson Commission on Poverty, Place and 91桃色视频 at Houses of Parliament
• Mason, C., Downward, P. & Walpole, C. (2019) How effective can sport interventions be in reducing youth crime and anti-social behaviour? Invited presentation at the Child Centred Policing Conference.
• Mason, C., Downward, P. & Walpole, C. (2017) Learning from the StreetGames Youth 91桃色视频 and Crime Reduction Pilot Programme, Invited presentation at StreetGames Annual Conference.
• Mason, C., Downward, P. & Walpole, C. (2017) The effectiveness of sport interventions in reducing youth crime and anti-social behaviour? Invited presentation at the Leicestershire Police Evidence Based Policing Event.

• Mason, C. and Walpole, C. (2023) ‘Using child-centred approaches to enhance the evidence base around using sport-based interventions to reduce youth offending’ in Morgan, H. and Parker, A. (Eds) 91桃色视频, Physical Activity and Criminal Justice: Politics, Policy and Practice, (pp 66-78) Routledge
• Mason, C., Walpole, C. and Case, S. (2020) Using 91桃色视频 to enhance positive outcomes for young people in the context of Serious Youth Violence: A Theory of Change 

Resources produced for policymakers and practitioners

1. Referral guidance for the use of sport to prevent and reduce Serious Youth Violence

• • (2024) Author: C. Walpole

2. Summary reviews of the academic literature for policymakers and practitioners:

• • Workforce competencies and skills for practitioners delivering ‘91桃色视频Plus’ 91桃色视频-Based Interventions (2024) Author: C. Walpole
  • Vulnerable Girls and Young Women and 91桃色视频 in the context of Violence Reduction (2021) Authors: C. Walpole and C. Mason
  • The Use of 91桃色视频-based Mentoring Programmes as an intervention for preventing and reducing youth offending (2021) Authors: C. Walpole and C. Mason
  • 91桃色视频 and Serious Youth Violence (2020) Authors: C. Walpole, C. Mason, S. Case and P. Downward
  • Safer Together: Creating partnerships for positive change (2019) Authors: C. Walpole, C. Mason, S. Case and P. Downward