Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions

1. Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions

2. Team • Paul Johnson, Director • Ingrid Schoon, Research Director • Alissa Goodman, Anna Vignoles and Andy Ross, Deputy Directors

3. Text • Txt Our knowledge and expertise Text • Txt Text • Txt Multi-disciplinary team • Psychology, economics, sociology, education, criminology • 3 highly respected organisations with close working relationships Text • Txt Text • Txt Text • Txt Research capability • Quantitative focus with qualitative capability • Cutting edge methodologically • Extensive experience in use of large scale survey and administrative data Text • Txt Text • Txt Policy expertise • Exceptional track record of advising policy-makers at the very highest level

4. Text • Txt The vision Text • Txt Text • Txt Text • Txt Research Themes Text • Txt Education & Employment Risky Behaviours & Positive Activities Disadvantaged & Vulnerable Groups Text • Txt Text • Txt Text • Txt

5. Research topics Text • Txt Text • Txt Text • Txt Education & Employment Transitions Risky Behaviours & Positive Activities Disadvantaged & Vulnerable Children • Choices at 16 • Widening participation in HE • Aspirations and expectations • School engagement • Timing and sequencing of transition experiences • Combining multiple roles in education, employment and family life • Returns to education • Self regulation • Life styles • School engagement/ disengagement • Truancy • Smoking, drinking and drugs • Intergenerational relationships governing health and well being • Youth crime • Poverty • Family structure • Ethnicity • Teenage mothers • Early school leavers • Mental health • Victims of bullying • Special Educational Needs Text • Txt Text • Txt Text • Txt Text • Txt Text • Txt

6. Education transitions • imminent introduction of the age 18 education and training participation age • rapidly rising youth unemployment rate • strong focus on improving our understanding of the drivers of education and labour market transitions • holistic approach to the numerous transitions young people make when moving from adolescence into adulthood • way in which different types of transition (in education, employment, family life and housing) interact.

7. Risky behaviour • risky or anti-social behaviours/ positive behaviours • how these behaviours interact with one another • not all young people persist in such behaviours over the long term • many behaviours are strongly linked with youth identity formation and social interactions • Costs/ benefits of different strategies • universal versus targeted • when best to intervene.

8. Disadvantaged and vulnerable groups • not all young people are affected in the same way by adversity • many of vulnerable and disadvantaged groups are more likely to be unemployed, to have children outside of marriage, to be socially isolated, to commit crimes, and to live in poverty • need for better understanding of these specific and cumulative risk effects. • examine in more detail how disadvantaged and vulnerable youth navigate important transitions

9. CBA – drugs policy • evaluation of whether policies based on prevention/communication or those focused on treatment/enforcement are more cost effective • determine a sensible “balance of intervention” • CBA Methodology: review of existing literature, use of published data on costs • monetary values on immediate impacts of programmes through linking those impacts to longer term individual and social benefits • using available evidence to put estimates on these monetary values

10. Jobs without training • significant numbers of young people enter jobs that have no training attached with low pay and short contracts • most focus on NEETs - less analysis of the JWT group • yet these young people are a large and important component of the youth labour market • they make up around two-thirds of those who leave full-time education post-16 • poor initial job quality likely to have long-lasting effects on future employment, earnings, and skill development