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3 I’m new here: creating a new research project and a young person-led research agenda

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Abstract

Presenting the co-designed carousel of methods and the iterative conversations which created the research questions and events, this chapter explains the collaborative and youth led research process which underpins the qualitative findings presented throughout the book. It offers examples of how the creative methods generated a research agenda. It locates the book in traditions of youth work as accompaniment and socio-cultural animation with strong links to critical participatory action research. It explains the recruitment of the research team, the range of creative methods of engagement, data collection and philosophical discussion which were used, the partnership with arts practitioners and the performance tour which followed, and presents the youth-led research agenda which emerged as well as introducing the legacy project developed from the initial findings.

Abstract

Presenting the co-designed carousel of methods and the iterative conversations which created the research questions and events, this chapter explains the collaborative and youth led research process which underpins the qualitative findings presented throughout the book. It offers examples of how the creative methods generated a research agenda. It locates the book in traditions of youth work as accompaniment and socio-cultural animation with strong links to critical participatory action research. It explains the recruitment of the research team, the range of creative methods of engagement, data collection and philosophical discussion which were used, the partnership with arts practitioners and the performance tour which followed, and presents the youth-led research agenda which emerged as well as introducing the legacy project developed from the initial findings.

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents iii
  3. Notes on the authors iv
  4. Acknowledgements v
  5. Preface vii
  6. Animate, attune, amplify 1
  7. Finding oneself a loneliness agenda 11
  8. I’m new here: creating a new research project and a young person-led research agenda 23
  9. The social conditions of loneliness
  10. Loneliness and poverty 39
  11. Being an outsider 51
  12. The education system, aspiration and loneliness 61
  13. The experience of loneliness
  14. Transitions 73
  15. Loss, grief and loneliness 85
  16. Being left out 95
  17. Online spaces and connection 105
  18. Building friendship and connection
  19. Asking for help and offering connection 121
  20. Youth work as method 131
  21. Creativity and solidarity as method: the example of Missing and other stories 147
  22. New ways for thinking and feeling loneliness 161
  23. References 179
  24. Index 193
Young and Lonely
This chapter is in the book Young and Lonely
https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447355366-006

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents iii
  3. Notes on the authors iv
  4. Acknowledgements v
  5. Preface vii
  6. Animate, attune, amplify 1
  7. Finding oneself a loneliness agenda 11
  8. I’m new here: creating a new research project and a young person-led research agenda 23
  9. The social conditions of loneliness
  10. Loneliness and poverty 39
  11. Being an outsider 51
  12. The education system, aspiration and loneliness 61
  13. The experience of loneliness
  14. Transitions 73
  15. Loss, grief and loneliness 85
  16. Being left out 95
  17. Online spaces and connection 105
  18. Building friendship and connection
  19. Asking for help and offering connection 121
  20. Youth work as method 131
  21. Creativity and solidarity as method: the example of Missing and other stories 147
  22. New ways for thinking and feeling loneliness 161
  23. References 179
  24. Index 193
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