Collaboration child and youth studies
The research conducted at the centre for child and youth studies has strong connections to the surrounding community and reflects well University West’s focus on work-integrated learning. Several of the centre’s projects are carried out jointly with schools, social services, not-for-profit organisations and other external actors. The collaborations include both concrete research projects and mutual exchange of knowledge.
About our partnership model
The centre utilises a partnership model aimed to promote research carried out in close cooperation with external actors. In each joint project, the researcher and the external partner formulate the central research question together to ensure mutually beneficial outcomes. It is important that the research questions be formulated in a way that makes them both of high scientific interest and of strong interest to the respective project partner.
In addition to publication in academic journals or other outlets, which the University requires, projects must be reported to the external partner. Since it must be easy for the partner to access the research results and implement them in practice, the researcher(s) involved and the external partner must agree on how the project outcome should be reported. The model is designed so that each project corresponds to 30% of a full-time position.
The model also includes a support function where the centre director meets with the researchers involved in projects on several occasions to discuss and provide support in the research process.
Besides the research conducted within the framework of the partnership model, the centre for child and youth studies collaborates with external actors for example by funding doctoral studentships. Together with the Närhälsan community health services in Gothenburg and Campus Västervik in Västervik, two doctoral studentships funded in equal parts by the University and the respective partner were established in autumn 2016.
Outreach projects
Many collaborative research projects are focused around early intervention for children, adolescents and their families aimed to promote psychological health as well as inclusion of children and youth and thus social sustainability in the long term. Two new outreach projects have been launched in 2016: one in the municipality of Lysekil and one involving seven municipalities in the Fyrbodal region.
Ongoing projects
Fyrbodal Local Federation
Barnahusets insatsmodell (BIM) i Fyrbodal
Grästorp Municipality
Ungas tillit till Grästorps kommun
Innovatum, Trollhättan
FAM - Få alla med
Orust Municipality
HittaDrivet- fas 2
Trollhättan City
Tidig upptäckt, tidig insats
Skolstängning som verktyg för minskad segregation och ökad inkludering?
Undervisning och kommunikation i träningsskolan
Region Västra Götaland
Barn, unga och rättigheter
Finished projects
Ale Municipality
Young people with risky use of alcohol and drugs
Campus Västervik
Young and unemployed in Västervik
Barns och ungas perspektiv på försörjningsstöd
Bygga broar till något nytt – Om tvärprofessionell samverkan i skolan för att stödja ungas livsval
Young adults living in rural areas
Unga vuxna som flyttar till Västervik
Fyrbodal Local Federation
Welfare technology for increased well-being and empowerment
Barn och ungas våld i familjen
Grästorp Municipality
Team Agera - an increased and deepened pupil-health intervention through interprofessional collaboration
Ledarskap i klassrummet
Jönköping Municipality
Lärarens ledarskap i och utanför klassrummet
Lidköping Municipality
Ung arena
Lysekil Municipality
Fältsekreterarnas uppsökande sociala arbete inom ramen för förebyggandeenheten i Lysekils kommun
Lysekil Municipality - Education Department
Trygg hela dagen
Länsförsäkringar Älvsborg
Du äger ditt liv
Närhälsan
Mellan evidens och reflektion: om professionellt lärande i socialtjänstens familjebehandlande arbete
Orust Municipality and Dals-Ed Municipality
HittaDrivet: studiemotivation och genusmönster i grundskolan
Stenungsund Municipality
Children’s Transitions from Preschool to School
Trollhättan City and Västra Götaland County
Svenska som andraspråk i förskolan – metoder och strategier
Agency, gender and intercultural encounters of children and young people: A case study of a football club
Uddevalla Municipality
Parent resource - a deepened and broadened support for families in need
About teachers’ relationships with parents whose children are regarded to have "problems".
Vara Municipality
The significance of early interventions in preschool
Vänersborg Municipality and Trollhättan Municipality
Kartläggning av nyanlända elevers mottagande och utbildningssituation, samt deras övergångar i skolsystemet (KAN-projektet)
Västra Götaland County
Barnrättsarbete genom ombud
Åmål Municipality
Health care for youths in Åmål