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 – […]
The first Herts YPAG meeting of the year took place online on Wednesday 24th January. The meeting started off with an icebreaker in order to get things going – a game of “I spy”, spotting things in each others’ online background. Whoever guessed the object first got to be the next ‘spy’. It was interesting, […]
This post is about the last two YPAG meetings of 2023. The first was an online meeting we had in November and the second was an in-person meeting and Christmas party in December 🥳 November online meeting We started our online meeting off by playing an icebreaker where we all had to find one food […]
Our YPAG group had another in-person meeting on Saturday 23rd of September, where we all met at the university again! We started off the meeting with the classic icebreaker game – two truths and one lie – butthis time with a theme, which was based on what we all did over the summer holidays. It […]
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 […]
Our July meeting was on Zoom again. We started off the meeting by doing an icebreaker game where we were put in different breakout rooms and had to find 3 things that we had in common and 3 differences. This was quite a fun way of learning more about each other. We ended up finding […]
We met at the university on Saturday 9th June. When we arrived, the building was still locked as no one had arrived with the keys yet, but luckily we managed to get in in the end 😝 We started the day with a great icebreaker game where we each had to tell two truths and […]
On Friday 21st of April, we had our 8th YPAG meeting, and I was very happy to see everyone online, but the only downside is that there is no pizza when we meet on Zoom.
