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Written by: Benita, Jacob, Zuyi, Lauren and Helen Background to the YPAG Evaluation The Herts YPAG started in March 2022 and is made up of a group of young people living in Hertfordshire who are aged 10-18 years old. Since April 2025, the YPAG Excellent Evaluators team have been conducting an evaluation of the Herts […]
At the YPAG KSS meeting in June held at the Royal Alex Children’s Hospital in Brighton, the group heard from Sharon, a Paediatric Research Nurse from University Hospitals Sussex, whose project is looking at improving care for Children and Young People admitted to hospital with Mental Health Issues. Increasing numbers of children and young people […]
Eva’s first meeting and a roundup of research sessions Hello, I’m Eva and I was welcomed to my first GOSH YPAG on the 31st of May. The meeting was held on Zoom and was an extremely insightful experience- I felt from the moment I joined at 10:45am that this was a nurturing platform- not […]
ERDERA Conference, Day 1 😀 Hello, I am Leo, along with my brothers Tyler and Ryker, we are part of the Eye-YPAG group that went to the ERDERA conference in Athens. If there are any words you possibly don’t understand, we have a glossary at the bottom of the page. The words there are the […]
Our April meeting was packed with learning and giving advice. Berni Graham held the second session of our training as interviewers in qualitative research projects. We went over what we had learned in the first session – open and closed questions, body language, and that consent can be withdrawn at any time. Then we talked […]
Some members of the Young People’s Advisory Group, Kent Surrey & Sussex attended the NHS Sussex ‘Improving Lives: Young People’s Annual Conversation’ on Saturday 1st March, in Brighton. The event included several youth groups from across the county and involved group discussions on: Access to and experiences of GP services. Moving from children’s health services […]
Four members of the YPAG Kent, Surrey and Sussex attended the national NIHR event on 1st February 2025 to mark 10 years of progress of involving children, and young people in health and care research. The event was to celebrate how their contributions have shaped the design, development, and delivery of child-health research, and look ahead […]
At YPAG, we started off with a usual icebreaker to brighten up the atmosphere and kick off the session. We were then introduced to Varshie, an Orthoptist who works with Vijay. She introduced us to a new research project which we supported by giving feedback on the idea during the grant application stage. They gave […]
We started our in-person meeting with lunch – lots of pizza, garlic bread and salad! – along with some introductions. Some group members hadn’t met Lauren, the new YPAG helper yet, and we also met Helen, a researcher from the University of Cambridge. We then talked about some exciting plans that are coming up for […]
At the most recent eyeYPAG meeting, we worked together on various themes. I really enjoyed this session because we did lots of interactive activities like designing a logo for a new research study on myopia in children called COSMYC, which we have heard about in the past. It was nice to get some updates […]
