Informing policy dialogue: The Youth as Researchers Programme

Kennan, Danielle, Dolan, Pat, Anderson, Ella, & Garrett, Kalem. (2021). Informing policy dialogue: The Youth as Researchers Programme. In Deirdre Horgan & Danielle Kennan (Eds.), Child and Youth Participation in Policy, Practice and Research: Routledge Taylor and Francis.

Abstract

This chapter reflects on how youth, through the medium of youth-led research, can seek to influence public policy by bringing a more democratic and informed youth perspective into the policy-making arena. The chapter details the Youth as Researchers Programme Model. It outlines how the programme has supported youth, in Ireland and internationally, to undertake social research projects with their peers on issues of concern, to collectively inform policy dialogue. The chapter documents the development of the programme, including a case study of one of the early youth-led research projects set up in Ireland in response to Ireland¿s National Child and Family Agency seeking to better understand how young people facing adversity can be heard and helped. It traces the programme¿s development from its inception to the present day, when the programme is now central to UNESCO¿s global response to inform policy on supporting youth during COVID-19.

Publisher

Routledge Taylor and Francis

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CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IE

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