The Sutton Trust’s research team has produced hundreds of research pieces over the years, with many stark statistics demonstrating the inequalities young people from the least advantaged backgrounds face in education and access to the workplace.
But those statistics don’t tell the whole story. We often wonder – what are the individual stories behind the data?
We’re looking to do more work to bring young people’s voices and individual experiences into our research. The Sutton Trust is a unique organisation, bringing together research work with programmes working directly with young people. Young people have influenced our work for years, from our surveys of programme students, through to work with our Alumni.
But since COVID-19 struck, our research team have not had the chance to hear directly from the young people who were impacted by the crisis. We had also never previously run this type of full day workshop with young people, focused on their experiences of issues we examine in our research, something we’re hoping to continue to do going forward. This blog outlines our experience of running this type of activity for the first time.
