Conducting Youth - Led Research : Informing and Influencing Social Policy

This accredited e-course aims to train young professionals and anyone wishing to learn how to conduct youth-led research or support young people in carrying out youth-led research in order to inform and influence social policy. The e-course is supported with a Training Handbook; and is the result of years of working with young people from all walks of life. As with all RJ4All training programmes; this e-course aims to empower trainees; independently of background; to gain a voice on matters they feel passionate about. By the end of the course; trainees should be able to know: What social policy is and how to inform and influence it; What youth-led and user-led research is and how to use it to collect evidence in social sciences including youth policy; crime; equalities and human rights; How to conduct youth-led research using interviews (face-to-face; focus groups; questionnaires); How to analyse your qualitative data and transform them into arguments for informing and influencing social policy; How to present and write research and arguments including being able to identify methodology strengths and limitations.