The Young Lives Podcast

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The Young Lives Podcast

Young Lives is a longitudinal study of poverty and inequality following 12,000 children into adulthood in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam since 2001. In May 2024, the team completed an incredible seventh round of data collection. This podcast series goes behind the scenes to explore the innovative methods used to collect the latest data, how the data are being prepared for analysis, and what the findings tell us about the lives of the young people to help shape policies and programmes. www.younglives.org.uk Young Lives is currently funded by FCDO, Old Dart Foundation and Wellcome Trust. Photo credit © Young Lives / Sebastian Castañeda Vita

Episodes

  1. 12/06/2024

    Living through multiple crises: Young Lives’ latest qualitative research uncovering the lived experience of young Ethiopians

    Young Lives Country Director Alula Pankhurst launches the study’s latest wave of qualitative research in Ethiopia, exploring young people’s experiences and resilience through the multiple crises of recent years Young Lives is a mixed methods study. In this latest episode of our podcast series, Alula Pankhurst explains the unique value of combining a quantitative and qualitative approach to both understanding young people’s lives, particularly as they experience multiple crises, and shaping policies to best support them.  He details how this latest wave of Young Lives qualitative research in Ethiopia has been set up, it’s specific focus on aspects of young people’s health and well-being, what he hopes the research will find out, and how the findings will be shared to shape policies.

    11 min

  2. 08/14/2024

    How a sound methodology improves understanding of young Ethiopians’ experience of conflict

    Researcher Sophie Von Russdorf explains how using audio computer-assisted self-interviews (ACASi), enabled Young Lives to gain a more accurate understanding of the impact of conflict on young people in Ethiopia. It can be very difficult to get an accurate picture of young people’s experiences of conflict. In this first episode of a new podcast series, Research Analyst Sophie von Russdorf talks about Young Lives’ innovative use of audio computer-assisted self-interviews (ACASI) to collect data from young people who have experienced conflict in Ethiopia. In a new paper ‘A Sound Methodology: Measuring the experiences of violent conflict through audio self-interviews’ published in Economics Letters, Sophie, and her co-authors, Marta Favara, Laura Ahlborn, Alessandra Hidalgo-Arestegui and Gerald McQuade found that using ACASI led to more accurate data being collected, whilst at the same time protecting the wellbeing of the young people in Young Lives long running survey.

    7 min
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Young Lives is a longitudinal study of poverty and inequality following 12,000 children into adulthood in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam since 2001. In May 2024, the team completed an incredible seventh round of data collection. This podcast series goes behind the scenes to explore the innovative methods used to collect the latest data, how the data are being prepared for analysis, and what the findings tell us about the lives of the young people to help shape policies and programmes. www.younglives.org.uk Young Lives is currently funded by FCDO, Old Dart Foundation and Wellcome Trust. Photo credit © Young Lives / Sebastian Castañeda Vita

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