E-Learning Event – ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’: Young People and the Youth & Innovation Project – Mar. 7, 2024

Community-Based Research Canada presents “Young People in Community-Based Research”: the winter 2024 e-learning series. This series will highlight community-based research projects, models, and processes that exemplify participatory engagement of young people in research. An important hallmark of community-based research is that the research is participatory, meaning it involves authentic and meaningful participation of stakeholders in all phases of the research. When research has impacts on the lives of young people, participatory research would involve authentically engaging young people in the planning, design, implementation, and dissemination of research. Within this series we will hear about youth-engaged models and processes for research, as well as research projects that have been driven by young people.

Webinar:
The Youth & Innovation Project, a research project based at the University of Waterloo, aims to understand and amplify the positive social, environmental and economic impact young people, 15 to 25 years old, have on organizations, communities and systems. In this presentation, Ilona Dougherty, Managing Director of the Youth & Innovation Project, alongside a member of our Youth Advisory Council will share how young people are involved in the Youth & Innovation Project. The presenters will share the challenges they have faced along the way and how their thinking has evolved around meaningful youth engagement, shaping the future direction of their youth-engaged research work.

Presenters:

• Ilona Dougherty, Managing Director of the Youth & Innovation Project, School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED), University of Waterloo
• TBD, Youth Advisory Council member