Research: Loneliness and Young People
Investigating youth loneliness in collaboration with young people.
About the research project
Research has found that 40% of 16 to 24-year-olds often feel lonely, making it the loneliest age (BBC Loneliness Experiment).
Our Loneliness and Young People research area exists to investigate youth loneliness alongside young people, using co-produced methods (techniques which are designed in collaboration with the research participants), and also creative and arts-based methods.
You can learn more about the three projects developed as part of this research area, below.
Header image credit: 42nd Street.
Loneliness Connects Us
We developed new approaches for researching youth loneliness with young people, as part of an ongoing partnership with mental health charity, 42nd Street.
Image credit: 42nd Street.
LEFT ON READ
In collaboration with research participants, we designed creative encounters to explore how COVID-19 lockdowns affected young people’s mental health, levels of social isolation, and loneliness.
YOUTH VOICE IN AND AGAINST CRISIS DISCOURSE
In a multi-media inquiry led by young people, we investigated how young people’s voices can be lost when adults talk about crisis and crises, and what we might do differently.
Research team
Research team
Research Funders
With Funding From
The Co-op Foundation
Contact Information
Contact us
For general enquiries about the Education and Social Research Institute’s youth and community group, you can contact research group lead, Prof Gabrielle Ivinson.