I’m new here: creating a new research project and a young person-led research agenda

Abstract

Presenting the co-designed carousel of methods and the iterative conversations which created the research questions and events, this chapter explains the collaborative and youth led research process which underpins the qualitative findings presented throughout the book. It offers examples of how the creative methods generated a research agenda. It locates the book in traditions of youth work as accompaniment and socio-cultural animation with strong links to critical participatory action research. It explains the recruitment of the research team, the range of creative methods of engagement, data collection and philosophical discussion which were used, the partnership with arts practitioners and the performance tour which followed, and presents the youth-led research agenda which emerged as well as introducing the legacy project developed from the initial findings.