The following content was co-designed and co-created with our advisory group members from Belfast City Youth Council and Scouts Northern Ireland. The themes discussed across these resources are based on the data gathered from surveys, narrative interviews and focus groups that were conducted with children and young people across Northern Ireland.
This podcast series features the voices of our co-researchers and the children and young people who contributed to this project. They explore the role of respect and disrespect in their everyday lives and agree on key messages that adults should know.
This podcast was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
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Episode 1
In our first episode, we meet some of the young researchers involved with RADICAL. They explain what respect really means to them, calling for a two-way street where adults actually listen and value youth voices instead of just demanding respect.
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Episode 2
In this episode, the RADICAL team explores how where you are and who you are changes the respect you receive. Your demographic matters a lot too, with minority groups like trans youth and people of colour and girls often feeling dismissed or ignored.
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Episode 3
The crew dives into how respect impacts mental health and happiness in schools. They also discuss how teenagers are harmed by disrespectful stereotypes. Their big takeaway? Small things like a smile or lending an ear can make all the difference.
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Episode 4
In the final episode, the team dives into the wrongful assumptions adults often make, like stereotyping teenagers as criminals. They highlight how some adults use fear and yelling to control young people instead of being empathetic or listening to them.
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This short film was co-created by the RADICAL children and young people's research advisory group, who are part of the 40th and 90th Belfast Scout group. They worked with academics at Queen’s University Belfast, University of Strathclyde and Ulster University to research children and young people’s understandings and experiences of respect and disrespect. In the film, they draw on some of the data to explain how being respected and disrespected makes children feel. They identified the key themes in the survey data around feelings of respect and disrespect, chose phrases from focus groups and interviews that reflected these, and represented different emotions with different water colours. The RADICAL project was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. (Grant number: ES/X007588/1).
This short film was co-created by the RADICAL young people's research advisory group, who are members of the Belfast City Youth Council. They worked with academics at Queen’s University Belfast, University of Strathclyde and Ulster University to research children and young people’s understandings and experiences of respect and disrespect. In the film, they draw on some of the stories of disrespect shared by children and young people in research. Taking extracts from young people’s narrative accounts, they produced short poems. This way they kept the person’s original story, and their exact words, but pieced together lines from it into a poem. The RADICAL project was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. (Grant number: ES/X007588/1).
Click below to read the project updates created for our young researchers and participants throughout this project.
Read and listen to the poetry created by the young people who participated in this project.
Learn more about what our participants had to say about where they felt respected and disrespected.
Look at the artwork produced by our young people and some photos of the events they participated in.