Changing the Story Youth Research Board
On Thursday 9 December, 2021, the eleven members of the Changing the Story Youth Research Board launched their creative campaigns for change, informed by their research findings and evaluation of Changing the Story commissioned projects.
To find out more about the three campaigns for change created, visit the dedicated social media accounts set up by the board:
General
Twitter/Facebook/Instagram: @yrb_story
The Daily Lives of Young People Research Group
Twitter: @YrbCampaign
Facebook: YRB Campaign
Creative Education Corner: Does the Education System Equip us for our Future?
Instagram: @creative.edu.corner
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The Youth Research Board is a group of eleven young researchers from Colombia, Venezuela, Rwanda, South Africa, Kosovo, Nepal and India. The role of the research board is to evaluate the overall Changing the Story project and to identify what they see as the key issues emerging from the projects. The research board will use their research findings to develop a campaign around the change they want to see in their own contexts.
Stay up to date with what the Changing the Story Research Board are up to within and beyond CTS by following their social media accounts: @yrb_story on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram!
Youth Research Board Timeline of Activities
March
Youth Research Board Meet for the First Time, participate in a workshop on safeguarding led by Changing the Story Safeguarding Lead, Helene Rousseau, and develop a Team Charter for how they they want to work together and engage with the Changing the Story Network.
April
The Youth Research Board participate in two arts-based taster workshops: a Haiku workshop led by Laura Taylor, Diego Alfonso, and Maria Fernanda Trujillo Santiago, and a PhotoVoice workshop led by Tiffany Fairey. The Youth Research Board interviewed young researchers from Kyrgyzstan about their experiences as researchers on Mobile Arts for Peace, and set up social media accounts @yrb_story on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to promote their work within and beyond CTS.
May
Members of the Youth Research Board work with artists Blerta Hocia and Driton Selami to co-devise a public artwork 'Public Untruths.' The artwork was launched at the Changing the Story Inside Out and Outside In festival in June and is currently exhibited in Prishtina, Kosovo.
June
Changing the Story invited young people across the network to submit their artwork. The Youth Research Board were invited to reflect on the artwork submitted and to creatively respond. The call and response tool emerged out of ImaginingOtherwise, one of the Changing the Story projects, and is about generating dialogue and creative responses without being worried about what is understood and what is missed.
July - Sept
The Youth Research Board begin the research phase of the project, which they will lead from July-October. The Youth Research Board have selected the three themes they would like to explore: The Daily Lives of Young People, Arts-based Methods, and Preserving Memory for the Future, as well as the six projects they would like to focus on. Click here to hear from Jesús about his group's research on the daily lives of young people, and here to hear from Leonard's about his group's research on collective memory.
Oct - Nov
Having completed the research phase of the project, the Youth Research Board are continuing to collaborate in their sub-groups and are using their research findings to inform their campaigns for change, due for launch on Thursday 9 December 2021.
December
The Changing the Story Youth Research Board officially launched their campaigns for change, informed by their research findings, in an online event on Thursday 9 December 2021. Find out more about their campaigns here.