Most schools are now well-established with their student voice policies, as seeking young people’s views on decision-making, service design or evaluation becomes part of the norm. So perhaps now is a good time to start building on this momentum by involving young people as researchers, rather than simply research participants?
NFER has been working with schools on their journey towards the NFER Research Mark, one of the criteria for which asks about how the school promotes and supports pupils’ research engagement.
The reason for this, says Professor Graham Handscomb, who helped develop the programme, is because “young people are the core of the school’s purpose and identity”. He continues: “Therefore they should be actively involved with and contributing to the range of research activity. This includes not only enquiry and research featuring prominently in the curriculum and how young people learn, but also includes young people contributing to the school’s improvement and self-evaluation research activity.”
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