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.
We had our fourth in-person meeting on Saturday, 11th March – and our one-year birthday party! We started off with pizza, wedges and salad for lunch and followed with a memory icebreaker game where we had to remember moves from the previous people, and it was quite hard ????. Then Rebecca, a researcher from the […]
This was the 6th meeting of YPAG which took place on 26th Jan 2023, which was also our third meeting on Zoom.
We had our last Herts YPAG meeting of 2022, and the third in person, on Saturday 3rd December, and as it was December we had a Christmas theme ????????. We started off an update from Julia, a researcher from the University of Hertfordshire, about the project she’s involved in on problematic use of internet by […]
Our YPAG meeting on the 23rd September was by far one of the most interesting online meetings we have had so far. We started with a Zoom poll game of ‘Would you rather….?’ which was a great way to start the next few hours of researching. We were joined by 2 researchers from Queen Mary’s […]
We had our third Herts YPAG meeting, and the second in person, on the 9th July with 12 YPAG members getting together on a hot, sunny Saturday. We started off with pizza for lunch and then a game of human bingo, to get to know each other a bit better. At a previous meeting we […]
This meeting took place on the 20th of May and all 19 members were there, some for the first time. First, we did a scavenger hunt to warm up. We had to find specific items from around our houses, which I found really fun. ???????????????? Next, Julia told us about a project she’s planning. She […]
We had our first meeting on 19th March at the University of Hertfordshire. We had 14 new group members who attended – aged between 9 to 17. I joined the YPAG group because I am interested in research and I wanted to know more, I thought that it was a great opportunity to work with […]
The Hertfordshire young people’s advisory group (Herts YPAG) are looking for new members who are 10-18 and live in Hertfordshire You don’t need any previous experience, just be interested in getting involved in research about children and young people’s health and care and the communities we live in, and be able to come to 7-8 meetings […]
Read Holly’s account of how the Hertfordshire YPAG has been shaping research and policy during COVID restrictions.