Rights and research

Youth led research should promote the realisation of young people's human rights. Truly youth led research is about more than young people being involved - it means working with young people, driven by their questions and concerns.

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Harrison Carter on Young People and Research

Added on : Tue 12th Oct 2010

See the interview with RightSpace here: http://www.rightspace.org.uk/content/harrison-carter-young-people-and-research

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Young people and research – why should people in universities do it?

Added on : Thu 22nd Jul 2010

The major rationale for young people’s involvement in research is often given in terms of participation; however there is a limit to how much research can rely on borrowing from the young people’s participation agenda regardless of its strengths, as this does not address all the issues the research agenda needs to consider.

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LiveBlog: Engaging young people as researchers

Added on : Mon 5th Jul 2010

I was at the Research Methods Festival in Oxford this afternoon in a session on 'Engaging young people as researchers'. To capture some of the learning I used CoverItLive to live-blog key messages. If you are viewing this post on the RightSpace website you should be able to replace the live blog below and browse some of the key issues that came up in the presentations and discussions.

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Challenging research

Added on : Wed 21st Apr 2010

In the past young people have, at best, been seen as respondents in research designed and undertaken by adults – as providers of information that adults then give meaning to and use. However there is a growing body of people and expertise that seek to challenge the persistence of this unequal relationship between those who carry out research and those who are researched. Right research

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