By Eleri Our first meeting of the year was on 17th January 2026, it was a huge success! All about us. . . We started our session by reminding ourselves of our co-production ethos. We always want to make sure everyone feels listened to and understood and this is stated in said ethos. This was […]
In our most recent eyeYPAG meeting on the 15th of November, we started (as usual) with an icebreaker : What are you most excited for this holiday season? The answers varied from the simple joys of M&S festive gingerbread cookies to reminiscing of happy family memories of sledding and snowball fights! Everyone is very excited […]
Our latest meeting was a huge success, many of our members first time seeing each other since the incredible iCAN conference in Montréal, Canada this last July. We stared off the meeting but introducing any new faces and retelling the favourite parts of our summer. This then lead on to a 2 hours workshop from […]
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went over what we had learned in the first session – open and closed questions, body language, and that consent can be withdrawn at any time.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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Earlier this month, five member of our eye-YPAG, a group facilitator and three parents attended the annual summit of the international Children’s Advisory Network (iCAN) summit. The meeting was hosted by the Teddy Network (European Network of Excellence for Paediatric Research) and took place in Bari, Italy, which was attended by 99 young people, […]
This was my first eye-YPAG meeting. I came as a supporting facilitator, because Vijay, the regular facilitator, has had a baby – CONGRATULATIONS VIJAY, from the whole YPAG group! It was a great meeting! – 15 children and young people aged 5 to 16 years attended, with the youngest two dipping in and out […]
On Saturday 27th January we had a YPAG session, our first of 2024 We started off our YPAG session with an ice breaker. Vijay asked us, “if we could teach one topic, what would we teach?” Everyone gave their answers as well as their name and age. Topics ranged from cooking to indoor climbing and […]
