Abstract

This project will produce an ethically sound and contextualised archived partial dataset from that of an existing qualitative longitudinal (QL) study, 'Inventing Adulthoods'. It will identify representational methods and multi media techniques for providing access to the resulting archived resource, to build a community of academic and non-academic users / re-users. The study offers insight into the lives of young people growing up at the turn of the century, and has resulted in an advance in prospective QL methodology and biographical and case history approaches. The proposed study will employ a participatory and collaborative approach involving young people, researchers from the study and relevant experts from a range of academic and non-academic disciplines in the archiving and representational processes. A network of potential users of the resource will be facilitated to encourage applications and forms of secondary analysis / data re-use for a range of purposes: academic, teaching and training, policy.