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 […]
As usual, we started off our in-person meeting with some ice-breakers and introductions, including writing our name tags and drawing a little picture of something we enjoyed. One of the funny ones in my opinion was cheese! Sheila’s hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) Research First, Sheila talked to us about hEDS and how it affects people […]
We started our online meeting with introductions. We had two visitors to this meeting from the Adolescent Health Study, Kat and Laura, as well as familiar faces Claire and Jess from the SALIENT team. This was the first YPAG meeting of the new year, so it was great to catch up and discuss what we were […]
On Saturday 1st February five of us went to Birmingham for the day with Louca-Mai and Helen. We were invited to an event called ‘Children and Young People’s Involvement in Health and Social Care Research: Making Connections’, which brought together over 80 young people (and the adults who work with them) from GenerationR young people’s […]
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 […]
We started off our online meeting with some introductions. We had two visitors to this meeting from other organisations (including a visitor from Munich in Germany), who are planning to set up their own similar groups and wanted to know what happens in our meeting and what we talked about during them. SALIENT Update We […]
I had school on Saturday morning for our September meeting, so arrived just before lunch. The group was smaller than usual because of traffic, being busy or ill. The other members of YPAG told me that: We had an introduction to Lauren, a Senior Research Assistant at the University of Hertfordshire who will be working […]
We’ve been working with Flexible Films and the artist Beci Ward to co-produce a film about our group and involving children and young people in research. We’re really excited to be able to share it with everyone! Watch it here: We had loads of fun making the video. Check out this bonus ‘making of…’ film […]
The Herts YPAG had an online meeting on May 10th, kicking off by sharing the emojis if how we were feeling – this varied from ????(pure joy) to ???? (quite a few of us are doing exams) . Fortunately, the majority of the emojis were positive and no one was too tired to contribute to […]
The first in-person YPAG meeting of the year took place on Saturday 9th March. This was the first YPAG meeting that I have attended, as I have just joined the group. The meeting started with a ‘two truths and one lie’ icebreaker which helped me get to know everyone????. After this, we had lunch – […]
