Dissemination activities
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Young People in Focus' research team do research in order to influence policy and practice in relation to work with young people. Getting research findings out to people who can use it is therefore essential. The research team are very proactive in this respect.
The sorts of activities we undertake include the following:
- making presentations and running workshops at practitioner conferences – these might include, for example, events aimed at those in education, social work, health, youth justice etc
- making presentations and running workshops at academic and researcher conferences – for example at events organised by the British Psychological Society, the British Sociological Society, the Social Policy Association, and the British Educational Research Association
- writing journal articles and summaries for a range of written sources – including (for practitioners) Community Care, Young People Now, the Times Educational Supplement, and (for academics (Youth and Policy, Journal of Adolescence, Children and Society)
- producing research-based training materials and good practice guides – in particular the research team writes and publishes a YPF Toolkit series, and a YPF Guide series
For further information about all research team publications (and those of the Training and Development team), see the Dissemination and Reports Section of the website.