Series: Emerald Points

Much has been written about coaching and mentoring. However, the focus has tended to be on business or professional development, with limited references to young people or youth work. Addressing this need, this unique text combines rigorous research with practical advice to examine coaching and mentoring in youth work, highlighting the purpose of these interventions in supporting the transition of...

Over the past four decades, extreme wealth concentration has reshaped democratic societies, amplifying private power even as democratic institutions struggle to respond. This book offers a bold new framework for governing concentrated wealth—not as untouchable private property, but as a form of power that must be held accountable in the public interest. In Democratic Wealth Stewardship, Nancy S. Lind brings...

Emotionally Intelligent Digital Learning explores how AI can transform digital education by supporting both academic success and student well-being. Instead of focusing solely on cognitive performance, this book introduces emotionally aware technologies that recognise student emotions in real time, offer personalised emotional support, and build mental resilience. Through real-world case studies, ranging from virtual empathy training in nursing to tools...

When some of our most vulnerable members of society go missing, they are exposed to different risks and possible harms while unsupervised in the community, posing a significant demand on police forces, social services, youth worker teams, education, and health providers. This important text looks at how different agencies manage and investigate missing children to give them a safe space,...

As the world wakes up to the incel problem following Netflix’s Adolescence, many examples of research into incels over the past decade have been poorly conducted. Researching Incels is a crucial intervention into problematic incel research – calling for a new framework for rigorous, responsible research to inform policy on the incel crisis. A critical overview on poor research examples...

The extractive industry is crucial in this energy transformation age, where the world is concerned about emissions reduction and more sustainable businesses. The extractive industry has two objectives: meeting the rising demand and extracting natural resources in a sustainable way. However, the industry usually deals with community rejection and social conflicts wherever they are, and this dire situation is a...

Digital transformation (DT) has emerged as a distinctive and evolving phenomenon that is reshaping individuals, organisations, and societies. Although it was initially perceived as a new label for long-standing processes, it has become increasingly evident that DT embodies unique and novel characteristics that set it apart from related concepts such as digitalisation and digitisation. Addressing a gap in current research,...