B:RADICAL: Co-designing online survey questions with children and young people on their understanding and their experiences of respect and disrespect.

In this presentation, I showcased how children and young people can be involved as co-researchers and research advisors in designing online survey questions and analysing survey results collected in large-scale online social attitude surveys conducted among children and young people.<br/><br/>There is a growing interest in participatory and collaborative research approaches<br/>and an increasing recognition that the involvement of co-researchers can enhance the relevance, validity and meaningfulness of research data. Traditionally, collaborative research approaches predominantly utilised qualitative research methods, but more recently survey researchers have also been more open to adopting co-production approaches. In this study I will showcase such an collaborative approach to online surveys involving children and young people.<br/><br/>This study is grounded in a rights-based approach to undertaking research with children and young people, using the Lundy Model with its four pillars (Voice, Space, Audience, Influence) to ensure that children and young people have a say, and their voices are listened to, when it comes to matters affecting their lives – here their experiences of respect and disrespect. Two Research Advisory Groups were formed and children and young people were trained as peer-researchers. Starting with explorative philosophical workshops, research questions were developed bottom-up, and were then included in two large-scale annual social attitude surveys undertaken in Northern Ireland – the YLT survey of 16-year-olds and the KLT survey of 10-11 year olds.