24 Feb
2021

Past event

Growing up under COVID-19 : young people speak out

By Nuffield Foundation

We hosted this webinar in partnership with Ecorys and the University of Huddersfield.

Planned and run by young people, the webinar presented the learning and key findings to date from the Growing-Up Under COVID-19 project, which is a collaboration between 14-18-year olds from the UK, Italy, Singapore and Lebanon, and researchers from Ecorys and the University of Huddersfield.

Using participatory action research and ethnographic methods, and conducted entirely online during the pandemic, the project aims to give a voice to young people, foregrounding their lived experiences of the COVID-19 crisis, and their views on how politicians and the public have responded. Young people are working alongside adult researchers as collaborators, and experts in their own lives.

At the webinar, we:  

  • Heard directly from young people about their research, through video, storytelling and debate, young people reflected on their research, and the recommendations from the first published report: To Lockdown and Back.
  • Gained insights to the role and value of participatory action research during the crisis, brought to life by a conversation between young people and adult researchers.
  • Engaged in a questions and answers session and reacted to the ‘call to action’.

The project will continue until September 2021, and this is the first of a number of planned events, and we welcome your input and feedback to shape the agenda moving into the New Year.

Speakers


  • Laurie Day
    Ecorys
  • Barry Percy-Smith
    University of Huddersfield
By Nuffield Foundation

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