Engaging children and young people in the management of their own wellbeing

The Centre for Children's Wellbeing invites you to their next seminar on engaging young people in managing their own wellbeing.

This seminar will share the challenges and highlights of engaging children and young people in qualitative participatory research approaches via two current research studies:

Improving the management of children’s pain

Professor Joan Simons has had a long-term interest in the management of children’s pain in hospital as both a practitioner and academic. She will present research which has grown from her doctoral studies which brought together parents and nurses in an innovative collaborative framework for more effective pain management.

What young people want for physical activity (YPAC)

Linda and Mark will outline the challenges of inactivity which contribute to sub-optimal wellbeing amongst young people in the UK, particularly the most disadvantaged. They will present early work in progress on a knowledge exchange project with children and young people as advisors and participants in devising and directing action research activity projects.

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The speakers:

Joan Simons, Professor of Health Studies and Head of School, Health, Wellbeing and Social Care.

Linda Plowright-Pepper, Affiliated Researcher with the CCW

Mark Stokes, Head of Children and Young People, Leap (the Active Partnership for Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes)