Research, Products and Essays:

Within high school counseling programs, social and emotional support tends to be underutilized by students. A school-wide survey at Ralston Valley High School revealed less than half of students felt comfortable accessing a counselor for social/emotional support, which differed significantly from . . .

This essay addresses the creation of an antisemitism curriculum by a social justice organization. The curriculum opens with some basic understandings of what antisemitism is and begins to consider what challenging antisemitism can look like from a framework of collective liberation. What follows is discussion of the racially, . . .

This is a follow up to a research project that looked at the efficacy of a school's mental health strategy. A young research team (YRT) collaborated with a researcher to investigate whether relationships between staff and young people impacted whether young people would come forward for . . .

The issue of educational evaluation in Chile is a sensitive one for all indigenous peoples, due largely to the technical and qualificative conception of it, which has no correspondence with the indigenous worldview. Therefore, this essay presents a participatory research experience that began in 2016 and involved forming a research community with a Mapuce . . .

In an unprecedented way, the coronavirus pandemic has brought to light the centrality of care for sustaining life. However, this multidimensional crisis also stressed the exploitation of the care economy in order to sustain a notion of development that . . .

How I got involved in the climate movement and why. There is this idea that when you retire from the work world you will take a break – travel, take up artistic endeavors, take classes or just “veg out” and do nothing. Yet there are other people who use the additional time to get involved with a cause or a volunteer effort. A few years after I retired I was looking for some way to get involved using my skills and to keep . . .

This is the final report of the participatory action research project entitled “The history and future of our struggles” which was launched by the School of Public Life Foundation in 2020. You may find the . . .

This research focuses on the lack of financial inclusion among housemaids in urban India and provides solutions that can be used by institutions promoting financial inclusion as well as by the general population interested in contributing to this cause. A primary survey was . . .

This project explored the efficacy of a whole school mental health strategy. After an initial Public Patient Involvement (PPI) exercise exploring how best to conduct the research in school, we decided to . . .

In 2020 the National Institute for Health Research funded a youth participatory health research project in a school in the North of England in the UK. A total of nine young people aged 17 - 18 years of age participated throughout a year of Covid- . . .

The members of the participatory action research project entitled The history and future of our struggles conducted more than 40 interviews in 2020 and 2021. For the past few months, we have been working on . . .

This project was intended to a) support a group of young people from across the UK to complete their own youth-led research and b) pilot and co-design a suite of resources to enable any practitioner . . .