From Guide to Practice: Youth Co-creation in Health Research for ECRs

This is a hybrid event. Attendees may join either in person or online.
Please select your preferred ticket type when registering. Online attendees will receive joining details prior to the event. Please note that registration for the event will close on Friday 26th June at 5pm.

This interactive workshop will introduce the newly published Youth co-creation for health: a practical guide, developed to support youth and adults who are committed to strengthening youth participation in health research, programmes, and policies. Youth co-creation is a participatory method in which youth work with others to shape multiple stages of a project, alongside a plan to identify and address power imbalances. It goes beyond a one-off consultation to meaningfully and systematically engage youth at multiple stages of the process. The guide was co-led by youth and informed by conceptual work, a global crowdsourcing challenge, a scoping review, participatory workshops, and an open review process.

The workshop will create a space for PhD students, master’s students, medical students, and other early career researchers to reflect on how youth co-creation can be applied in their own projects, particularly in ways that are inclusive, feasible, and responsive to different youth communities.

• An introduction to youth co-creation methods and how the practical guide was developed
• A panel discussion on barriers and facilitators for early career researchers using youth co-creation, including its application in grants, manuscripts, and research design
• Small-group discussions focused on making youth co-creation more inclusive in practice
• Group sharing, collective learning, and final reflections from the session

Youth co-creation for health: a practical guide provides evidence-informed and practice-oriented strategies for understanding, designing, nurturing, and sustaining youth co-creation in health research, programmes, and policies. It was developed for youth, researchers, programme teams, policymakers, and others seeking to strengthen meaningful youth participation in health-related work. The guide was developed in collaboration with the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), UNICEF, Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health (SESH), and the Social Innovation in Health Initiative (SIHI).

Access the practical guide here: https://tdr.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240117563

Each month, we meet to explore how participatory values can be embedded in PhD-level research, combining workshops, peer discussions, and guest speakers. Together, we aim to build collective resources, insights, and guidance by PhD students, for PhD students.

Our network is open to all PhD students from any institution, no matter where you are in your participatory research journey!

Highlights from past sessions can be found on our website:

Find us on LinkedIn and BlueSky: https://linktr.ee/phd.participatory

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Strand S3.05 is located on level 3 of the Strand Building.

The corridor outside the room is sufficiently wide enough (150cm+) to allow wheelchair users to pass. There is step free access into the room.

Access guide: https://www.accessable.co.uk/king-s-college-london/strand-campus/access-guides/strand-s3-05#654F30EF-710C-DF4D-ADA8-57E2D5A09ABD

If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with Emma or Yusha:

Emma Hayashibara: [email protected]

Yusha Tao: [email protected]

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Strand S3.05 Strand Building, Strand Campus, London, United Kingdom

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