Description

This presentation aims to provide an overview and worked example of co-production workshops in action with pupils at one secondary school within the UK. The workshops were intended to provide a space for pupils to work collaboratively with the researcher to design and make decisions about prospective data collection methods that were to occur with pupils at the same secondary school. This presentation was designed with researchers in mind who may be considering co-designing research methods with children and young people and offers an lived example of how this has been done by one researcher. The overall research draws on a qualitative Critical Ethnographic methodology. There are four phases to the research data collection: observational, co-production workshops, interviews with young people and interviews with school staff. This presentation focuses on the co-production workshops and how these were implemented, what activities supported the decision making, how these discussions with pupils were captured and how the workshops translated into research methods designed by pupils.

Learning Objectives

A. To demonstrate how one researcher has co-produced and designed research with children and young people 

B. To provide practical examples of co-production activities with children and young people and how these have been recorded 

C. To show how co-producing research workshops translated into actual research methods designed by pupils. 

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