Our Mission Statement

YRN Mission Statement:

This network will value, support, and encourage research led by young people. It will empower young people and raise their voice and influence on matters that affect their lives.

YRN Objectives

·   To establish a core network of organisations that share experience and provide mutual support to build capacity to take on and deliver quality research led by young people.

·   To promote and support research carried out by young people and build the capacity of young people to handle commissions and work with clients.

·   To de-mystify research, making research processes understandable and available to young people who might not otherwise have access to this knowledge.

·   To coordinate research efforts to maximize on the range and diversity of research projects and promote the developments of research methodologies and knowledge.

·   To support effective communication between young researchers and policy makers, locally and nationally, and circulate research findings with the aim of bringing about change.

·   To actively encourage organisations and bodies to involve young people and their research. To help forge and develop research partnerships between national organisations and young people led organisations.

·   To encourage the ethical contribution of young people to research and discourage potential tokenism and exploitation of young researchers.

·   To build a pool of knowledge and expertise about young people led research that will be freely and widely available.