All posts by Tony Chapman

The impact of UK Youth Achievement Awards on young people’s perceptions of positive life choices

Current and Recent Research Projects

Professor Tony Chapman

Tony Chapman led an evaluation of UK Youth’s Youth Achievement Awards in 2007, funded by The Drinkaware Trust and JP Morgan Philanthropy.

Youth Achievement Awards were introduced nationally in 1997 and are an activity-based approach to peer education. The awards were designed to help develop more effective participative practice by encouraging young people to take more responsibility in selecting, planning and leading activities that are based on their interests.

The final report, Small Steps and Giant Leaps, emphasised the importance of recognising the value of non-conventional educational practices, especially for young people who had been marginalised or excluded from conventional education. Completed in 2006

Third Sector Research Centre

Current and Recent Research Projects

Fred Robinson, Ian Stone, Paul Braidford and Gordon Allison

Members of the Policy Research Group advised and supported the Cabinet Office (Office of the Third Sector) on the establishment of a £10m Third Sector Research Centre, producing the scoping document underpinning the process and sitting on the ESRC Commissioning Panel.

This followed PRG’s 2006 study for the Treasury on the growth of successful social enterprises, which examined how such organisations overcome problems they faced at each stage of growth.

Their research demonstrated that pursuit of growth involves few compromises for organisations, in either their social or environmental aims.