“Nothing
about us
without us”
- that’s the ethos of the Bridging Divides project’s Youth Leadership Team (YLT)
London
Youth Leadership Team (YLT)
Adna, Karima, Niiokani, Jonas and Thai-Sha are five young people who grew up in Lambeth & Southwark and have been co-producing research with staff at King’s College London for over four years. They are equal partners on the project alongside the academics and ensure that lived experience expertise is incorporated at every stage of the research project – from generating hypotheses to dissemination strategies. Their role on the Bridging Divides project will be to oversee all aspects of youth involvement in London, work together with their counterparts in Tokyo, and mentor a new generation of co-researchers to ensure that Bridging Divides accurately represents the experiences of young people today.
Tokyo
Youth team
The Tokyo Youth Team is a group of young co-researchers working with the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science. They first took part in the Tokyo Teen Cohort as study participants, and have now joined as partners in shaping the research. They play a key role in making sure the study's design reflects the lived experiences of today's youth in Tokyo.
As part of the Bridging Divides project, they work closely with the YLT members, exchanging ideas about cultural differences and what's common across generations. Their goal is to ensure the surveys are both relevant to their own cultures and, as much as possible, comparable between the two social contexts of London and Tokyo.
