Author Description

<p> This straightforward and original text sets out best practice for designing, conducting and analysing research on work with young people. A creative and practical guide to evaluation, it provides the tools needed to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and applied practice.</p> <p>Written by an experienced, erudite team of authors this book provides clear, pragmatic advice that can be taken into the classroom and the field.</p> <p>The book:</p> <ul> <li>Provides strategies for involving young people in research and evaluation</li> <li>Showcases creative and participatory methods</li> <li>Weaves a real world project through each chapter, highlighting challenges and opportunities at each stage of an evaluation; readers are thus able to compare approaches</li> <li>Is accompanied by a website with downloadable worksheets, templates and videos from the authors</li> </ul> <p>This is the ideal text for postgraduate students and practitioners who work with young people in the statutory and voluntary sectors.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>