Future Minds: a podcast on involving children and young people in research co-produced by the Herts YPAG

By Louca-Mai Brady, September 20th, 2023

We’ve made a podcast! 🎙

Episode one: Making involvement happen

In the first of three podcasts we talk to some adults who help children and young people to be involved in research (facilitators) about why it matters, how to do it well and what we can do better. Thanks to Deidre Leyden from the London GenR YPAG, Rachel Temple from the McPin Young People’s Network, Lindsay Dewa from Imperial College London, and Sarah Knowles and Rhys Archer from the University of York Youth LIVES project for being such great guests!

You can listen to to the podcast online at Podbean, on Spotify or here:

Episode two: Young People at the Centre

In this episode we talk to young people from eyeYPAG, London GenR YPAG, McPin Young People’s Network and Partnership for Young London’s young researcher network and working with Imperial College London about why they think it’s important that researchers involve children and young people, why they got and have stayed involved and how we can improve things in the future.

Thank you to podcast guests Bilal, Molly, Catherine, Hannah, Halima and Eleri.

Episode Three – Where next for young people’s involvement?

In this third of three podcasts we talk to some people doing really exciting work with young people:

Jenny Preston, University of Liverpool, who started the Generation R network and many things #InvolveYoungPeople besides
Professor Lucy Bray from Edge Hill University
Professor Cath Larkins from the University of Central Lancashire Centre for Children and Young People’s Participation
Matt Walsham who leads the Partnership for Young London young researcher network
Begonya Nafria from Sant Joan de Déu Children’s Hospital in Spain, who leads the European Young Person’s Advisory Group Network (eYPAGnet)

In the podcast we talk to them about their work, why they think it’s important that children and young people are involved in research and how we can improve things in the future.