Toolkit / guide
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Involving Young People: A Toolkit for Peer Research
A step-by-step delivery manual for peer research with young people, built on almost a decade of practice and the work of hundreds of peer researchers. It takes you from first idea to lasting change, with the checklists, session plans and templates to do it well.
- Section
- Peer research
- Format
- Access
- Open access
What's inside
- 01
Foundations and ethics
What lived experience and 'peer' mean, and the ethical baseline for youth-led inquiry.
- 02
Getting ready
Budgets, fair pay for young people, staffing roles and organisational capacity.
- 03
The Scope Triangle
Balancing ambition, feasibility and influence so projects stay realistic.
- 04
Recruitment and training
Reaching beyond the usual suspects, and a full methods curriculum.
- 05
Fieldwork and analysis
Safeguarding in the field, and young people leading the sense-making.
- 06
Impact and legacy
Turning findings into policy change, social action and organisational change.
Who it's for
- Youth workers
- Commissioners
- Policy officers
- Academic researchers
“Peer research challenges us to sit with the discomfort of handing over power.”
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