In this episode, we listen to a conversation between Lysanne te Brinke (assistant professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Milene Gonçalves (associate professor at the Technical University Delft). Both are leading members of the ambition “Youth participation” in Healthy Start, a consortium that aims to better understand and support the healthy development of all youths in the Netherlands.
PAST (
00:01:43): We learn how different academic fields (developmental psychology versus design) have influenced how Lysanne and Milene define and use “youth participation” in their work.
PRESENT (
00:09:55): Lysanne and Milene give us insights into how participatory research can be used to amplify the voices of youth regarding societal issues, but also very practically to utilize youth’ creativity to co-create or co-design products. They both stress the importance of having youth participate at several phases in a given project and to recognize that involving youth requires a lot of flexibility and training from researchers and designers.
FUTURE (
00:20:52): We hear Lysanne and Milene reflect about the feasibility of youth participation, about how different disciplines can learn from one another, and, importantly, that youth participation should only be used if it is meaningful for the project and for youths themselves.
This episode is part of the spin-off series “(Re)Searching a Healthy Start”, in which we uncover the pathways and struggles of inspiring scientists and practitioners working together in the Healthy Start consortium. Healthy Start is part of the convergence of the Technical University Delft, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands.
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What is ReSearching Diversity?
Join a group of six women in social sciences in their aim to increase visibility of inspiring social scientists and of cutting-edge research on ethnic, cultural, and migration-related diversity. Each episode, two hosts invite one outstanding scientist to discuss their PAST (personal path into academia), the PRESENT (research article or book chapter that has recently inspired them), and the FUTURE (recent developments and paradigm shifts in academia and social sciences).
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We want to thank Minor Revisions for the music, Lotte Gottschewski-Kooijman for the logo design, Max Kersten for post production, and zeythehuman for their artwork. Stay tuned and talk soon!