LifeLab Annual Review 2023

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annual review 2023

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LIFELAB

Foreword Welcome to our review. Several years ago, we began producing an annual report to share - then COVID happened! So, this 'annual' review spans the last few years, but hopefully gives a flavour of the breadth of activity we are involved with.

Dr Kathryn Woods-Townsend LifeLab Programme Director

This is for all the young people, schools, teachers and parents who take part in our programmes - we want to give you a chance to see the bigger picture of what we do and other opportunities to get involved. For our colleagues at the University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton - we want to share with you the work that we have done, which is only possible in large part to the fabulous collaborations and collegiality that exist across these organisations.

For our funders and supporters - this work wouldn't be possible without you. We hope that this review gives an insight into the programmes you directly support and also the wider activity we deliver.

So, grab a cup of tea and dip in, there is something of interest to everyone and you might find other activities that you would like to find out more about or get involved with, if so - drop us an email lifelab@soton.ac.uk.

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LifeLab’s Mission

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LifeLab’s Strategy

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LifeLab in Numbers

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Experience

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Discover

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Create

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Case Study - The LifeLab Youth Panel

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Spreading the Message

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Who We Are

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Thanks

welcome OUR MISSION

Change the beginning and you change the whole story LifeLab’s mission is to empower children and young people through scientific discovery to make positive lifestyle choices for their physical and mental health, wellbeing and resilience now, in the future and for their future children.

Launched in 2008, LifeLab is a unique educational project created by the University of Southampton in collaboration with University Hospital Southampton, where it is based. LifeLab comprises a purpose-built classroom and laboratory facility with state-of-the-art equipment and a dedicated team of educators and support staff. In turn, the children and young people learn how their actions impact not only their own health but the health of their future children. With programmes delivered both through school and out of school, our approach is to provide immersive, hands-on activities to engage children and young people with the science behind health messages. Having opportunities to discover for themselves the importance of the choices they make and developing their skills in identifying their options, regardless of the environment they live in, puts children and young people in control of their own health.

LifeLab’s Mission

● Reverse the trend of rising unhealthy behaviours and lifestyles for children and young people in the UK ● Address the link between health behaviours, disadvantaged backgrounds and under achievement to reduce social and health inequality Co-create with children and young people an environment to allow their voices to be heard, to advocate for change and to enable them to flourish, building resilience for a changing world

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LifeLab’s Research Aims

● Build the evidence base for ways of enabling behavioural change in children and young people ● Explore different ways to engage with children and young people ● Support and empower teachers and academic staff to encourage behavioural change with their students Increase scientific and health literacy Increase awareness of, and interest in, STEM subjects and careers to ensure a talented, resourced and diverse future workforce

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REACHING FURTHER Historically, our work has been with young people aged 13-15 years and through schools.

During the pandemic, opportunities arose to extend our engagement with younger children, through primary schools. We were also able to develop engagement with young people outside of the school setting; through youth organisations, creative partners and directly, through social media.

This has expanded the breadth of the programmes and engagement opportunities for children and young people. We have codeveloped, piloted and launched a programme for primary schools - the Early LifeLab’s Health Warriors’ programme. We have established the LifeLab Youth Panel.

We have delivered programmes with creative partners; The Generation Anthropocene project, the Your Brain Explained project and the From Puberty to Menopause project. With our work across the University, we have also co-developed a training programme for young people to give them the skills to conduct their own research, following a Participatory Action Research approach.

Finally, we are proud of the model we have developed and refined, and, having gathered the evidence base to show its effectiveness, we have established partnerships with colleagues across the globe to consider how this approach works in different contexts and communities.

our strategy Experience Discover Create Working at the intersection of education, research and the environment,​our mission is to empower children and young people through scientific discovery to make positive lifestyle choices for their own health,​wellbeing and resilience, and to enhance the life chances of children they may have in the future.​ Our strength lies in the three pillars of our approach, with young people at the core of everything we do. By bringing together health and science, young people can experience, discover, and create life-changing moments and opportunities to positively impact their lives and their planet, both now and in years to come. Collaborating with our partners we build integrated networks that give us the foundation to further our research and inform our future direction.

Experience

Discover

Create

Experience-led EDUCATION with emphasis on hands-on self-discovery, access to inspring STEM practioners and exploration events

Leading innovative RESEARCH at the interface of Education and Public Health

Working in partnership with children, young people and stakeholders to EXCHANGE and TRANSFER expertise to co-create brighter futures

Outputs

Outputs

Outputs

LifeLab (Science for Health Literacy Programme) Early LifeLab COVID-19 testing education packages Experience Medicine with LifeLab summer school Undergraduate and postgraduate student courses

UKRI-funded Pathways to Health National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) - funded EACH-B randomised controlled trial NIHR-funded PhD studentship to evaluate the Early LifeLab programme NIHR-funded PhD studentship looking at teenagers’ school food choices

LifeLab Youth Panel Meet the Scientist programme Teacher, school staff and University staff CPD Young Researcher Training Programme RSPH Young Health Champion qualification Engagement events Policy engagement

OUTCOMES

OUTCOMES

OUTCOMES

Children and young people are engaged through scientific enquiry with an increased understanding of how science impacts health

Generate a knowledge base through health literacy research studies and trials to advance understanding and awareness

Young people can confidently influence their communities in adopting positive lifestyles

Children and young people are motivated to make positive lifetsyle choices

Improve application of lifestyle programmes in public health and education arenas for young people

Young people co-create future research and education programmes Advocate for opportunities to include the student voice in public health, education and environmental decision making

lifelab in numbers

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Schools have participated in LifeLab to date

14,728 Students have been through the doors at LifeLab

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‘Meet the Scientists’ trained

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Developing Talent students

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2,130 Students participating in Early LifeLab

Youth Panel members to date

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Unique reads of Youth Panel Exam Wellbeing Resource

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Teachers participating in CPD programmes

EMPOWERING YOUNG MINDS THROUGH SCIENCE This year, both the 13,000th and 14,000th student have attended LifeLab since we opened our doors in 2014. We have worked with over 100 schools across Southampton and the wider Wessex area since our programmes began and we now offer programmes for both secondary and primary phase settings.

“These are remarkable milestones for us for us and emphasise the continuing importance of what we do at LifeLab” said Dr Kath WoodsTownsend, who is the programme director. “Our LifeLab scientists and educators create experiences that empower children and young people to understand the science behind the health messages they see and hear on a daily basis.”

A class from St Anne’s Catholic School in Southampton were the lucky ones to officially have the 13,000th student attending LifeLab. “Our school has been coming to LifeLab with our students for several years now,” said Shelley Barnes, Key Stage Three Science Coordinator at St Anne’s. “It is an invaluable resource and experience for the students, which complements our science curriculum and provides our young people with a hands-on, immersive day out of the classroom. It works so well for secondary students because it is more than just a school trip, it is a structured education programme that provides them with pre-visit lessons at school, a visit to the LifeLab facility at UHS and follow-up lessons at school. Plus we are offered a professional development day for teachers too. We love coming and we are very honoured to be here on the day the 13,000th student walked through the door.”

MEET THE HEALTH WARRIORS During 2022, and with funding from Southampton City Council and the University of Southampton, we were able to expand our programme for primary schools. Based on our well-established and successful Secondary School LifeLab programme, and building on work during the pandemic, we transformed our COVID-19 Warriors into a new group of superheroes: THE HEALTH WARRIORS. With modules spanning the primary phase (Early Years, Keystage 1, Lower Keystage 2 and Upper Keystage 2), there's something for all schools to access.

All Infant, Junior and Primary schools in Southampton were invited to take part in this free programme from January 2023.

With short notice and timetables already committed, we have been thrilled with the success of the programme.

In the first year, eight schools took part, choosing to deliver all four of the modules in their school, showing a real commitment to dedicating curriculum time to the programme this year. In the second year, five schools have taken part already, eight signed up for later in the year and a further 14 have expressed interest. This will mean that almost half the children in primary schools in Southampton could be taking a step on the journey to becoming Health Warriors.

I have absolutely LOVED teaching this unit of work. The children were so engaged and my life was made so much easier!

My health warrior promise is to go on the trampoline more often to get more exercise.

It is a lovely way to support the children's learning of how to be healthy. They haven't stopped asking questions and talking about being healthy since!

All the activities were engaging and the children loved wearing the lab coats.

By the end of the topic, all children were creating 'health hero promises' that were realistic and achievable.

#BE PART OF THE SOLUTION Looking back over the past few years, one of the programmes of work we are most proud of is our involvement with the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Saliva Testing Programme. LifeLab first supported this initiative during its pilot phase where the main aim was to evaluate how a COVID-19 testing programme could help education settings to We a focus on their primary purpose of education, whilst re so fo prote cted b rtunate to protecting and reassuring their school and wider have y the progr been saliva amm communities. Our role at LifeLab was to develop a e for t e maint sting so lon ained g. It b schoo confid series of educational materials to engage children and uilt an l com ence d m f o d u r a n o y it ur wh young people with the science behind the public s. I kn y thro o o u le w g h the that o only e darke ur Lif ducat health messages, empowering them to consider the e st e L reduc d our ab wo ed fe childr rk no choices they made to help keep themselves, family, a e t r n a new in our , but a gene lso friends and school communities safer. Following the ration communit y and of scie inspir ntists pilot phase, in January 2021 this was scaled up with the ed . ambition to offer the programme to all education I would like to express my sincere thanks for your settings in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. work during the pandemic. The work you have

Over the course of the programme, we worked with 73 schools and colleges and 34,389 participants (students and staff).

This involved testing 793 litres of saliva

put into this programme has ensured that my teenage children (one of whom is in his GCSE year) have kept free of COVID and in face-toface classes. We will be forever grateful for the work your programme has done to help our family stay in education during a global pandemic.

DEVELOPING TALENT Last summer saw the 'Experience Medicine with LifeLab’ Summer School return to LifeLab at UHS for the first time since 2019! What a joy it was to see the excitement on the faces of the young people as they tackled suturing, taking blood (from fake arms!), visiting the acute medical unit, hearing about clinical research and visiting the clinical research facility. The students also learnt about anatomy, met with and listened to a range of medical professionals and spent time with the fabulous medical students at the university. The students, aged 13-16yrs, came from as far afield as Northern Ireland and Spain, but the majority were from our local schools. There were 40 places on the programme, of which 10 were bursary places. Particularly following the pandemic, it has been hard for young people to find opportunities for work experience or handson activities, so it's more important than ever that these programmes are made available. The demand for the summer school is as large as ever, being sold out in weeks and with people already on the waiting list to hear about the summer school for next year - register your interest to be first to know when booking opens! https://bit.ly/LifeLabSummerSchoolFindOutFirst [The best bit] The acute medical unit and NIHR tours, it was really cool to see how everything fits together with patients, doctors and facilities.

Just wanted to say thank you so much for letting my daughter attend LifeLab - she thoroughly enjoyed the 2 days and came home buzzing about it - she now feels becoming a doctor is a possibility for her - she had thought that coming from a single parent family and going to a state school she didn't fit the bill of a medical student- she has said that it has proved her wrong.

Going back to the start......

The place you are born and grow up is the starting point for your life’s pathway.

Research shows us that those born and living in more disadvantaged areas are at higher risk of poor health outcomes and reduced life opportunities. Southampton is a young, vibrant city - almost 20% of the city’s population is aged between 0 and 16 years.

Across Southampton there are neighbourhoods which are amongst the most deprived areas of the country; almost 20% of Southampton’s young people live in areas considered to be in the 10% most deprived areas of the country. We believe that young people shouldn’t be held hostage by their place of birth - and this was the sentiment behind the UKRI-funded Pathways to Health project which ran between November 2022 and September 2023.

We worked with young people across the city to hear about where they choose to hang out, the places they avoid and what they spend their time doing, so that we could understand their lives by listening to them. Over 200 young people took part in creative workshops; dance, creative writing, photography, BY ODS DS O W O and theatre skills to share their lives E IT E WO D TH AVOI LF - TH E WHEN with us. They challenged our S MYSE MY HOUARK; E assumptions about what culture D N TH S. ND I S O H T , E E S G IST means to them, where they experience B OXE S, F N ARSONG R E K it and how it influences their health.

S T A L O C C A S I OD M I S S I N G O I N Young people's cultural experience is R A R EF I R E S A N U N E V E R YO often different to traditional definitions LS. ALONE. A M I N and includes e.g. hanging out at Primark, A film/video, art, music, gaming, digital/ social media, doing hair, nails or makeup, fashion, gardening, sport, drama, dance, reading, heritage and food. We employed a group of young people to be trained as young researchers to dig deeper into the lives of their peers, and they chose to answer questions such as: Why are more and more young people involved in drugs, gangs and knife crime? What can a young person do to live a happy and healthy life? What are the things stopping you to achieve your dream job? and How do your peers influence you?

As COVID-19 restrictions eased during 2021/22 we were able to modify our programme and get back to doing what we love which is in-person teaching with the students. Our priority was delivering on our teaching commitment for the NIHR funded Engaging Adolescents with Changing Behaviour (EACH-B) randomised controlled trial. We were able to welcome students back to 'LifeLab on Tour' based at the University's Highfield campus and in this way we managed to keep the trial continuing during the on-going impacts of the pandemic. However, this academic year, we were thrilled to be back up at our LifeLab facility at UHS. The EACH-B trial successfully recruited 49 schools - just one school shy of our target of 50 - we were very grateful for all the schools who took part considering the challenges schools have faced over the past few years. All data collection is now complete and the research team are busy analysing the results. Watch this space .......

Life Lessons from LifeLab The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is a national assessment of the research which is taking place across UK universities. Every six or seven years, institutions are required to submit examples of their best research to be assessed by panels of academics and industry experts. How successfully a university does in the REF determines how much government funding is awarded. LifeLab was chosen for inclusion in the REF 2021 as an Impact Case Study, which is an example of research that has been driven across different faculties in the University over several years.

The concept of LifeLab originated in 2008, inspired by LENscience at the University of Auckland and drawing on research from the University of Southampton’s Faculty of Medicine showing that choices early in life can reduce the risk of disease in later life and for future generations. It built on work from the Southampton Education School showing that students need to engage with socioscientific issues (social issues which have their basis in science) to develop their decision-making skills. Following our pilot work, our facility at University Hospital Southampton opened in 2014 and since then, almost 15,000 students have participated in our programmes for secondary schools and colleges.

Read more here (pgs 22-23).

Change the beginning and you change the whole story To further support the Early LifeLab Health Warriors programme and ensure a robust evaluation process, LifeLab has been successful in securing a 4-year PhD studentship, funded through the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre.

As this is a new initiative for LifeLab, a fundamental component of the project is the evaluation and data collection to monitor the impact and success of the programme, and adapt it accordingly. The PhD project will aim to consider the most appropriate outcome measures to evaluate this educational intervention to tackle obesity, to understand whether this intervention could lead to behavioural change with children’s diet and physical activity, and consider how this intervention could contribute to system change and decision making within schools and local authorities.

Morgan Mason, the PhD student, started in October 2023 and is supported by a strong supervisory team made up of Kathryn WoodsTownsend, Keith Godfrey, Danielle Lambrick, Chris Downey and Ravita Taheem.

Having a robust evaluation of our programmes is essential to show their effectiveness, having demonstrated this with LifeLab at the secondary school level, this Early LifeLab PhD studentship will also provide the evidence base necessary to secure further funding.

lifelab around the world Ensuring young people engage with and are able to consider how to take responsibility for their own health and health decisions is vital in any community, country or continent. LifeLab is growing a global network of partner organisations who are taking the programme messages, aims and resources to young people around the world. Rewardingly, what we have found is that despite cultural, socioeconomic, age and curriculum differences, the LifeLab ethos and approach resonates strongly with young people no matter where they live. LifeLab programmes are now running in Dublin, Ireland; Sydney, Australia; and Soweto, South Africa. Working with our global partners, we have shared not only the physical LifeLab resources and programme structures, but also our experience with securing funding, engaging local health and political organisations, and working with schools and youth organisations to make their journey in delivering LifeLab as smooth as possible. Building this community of partners with the same vision and ethos is hugely exciting. Showing that this approach works in different contexts and has positive benefits for young people in different communities, cultures and age groups opens up opportunities for other locations and settings to develop similar interventions. It has been a really rewarding time for us. Learning from the experience of implementing LifeLab in different contexts and learning from young people across the world has given us lots of opportunities to reflect on our own programme and identify changes that we can make for maximum benefit of the young people we work with.

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Dublin LifeLab Dublin Lead: Hannah Goss Based at Dublin City University, LifeLab in Ireland started in 2019, funded by the Irish Heart Foundation. LifeLab Dublin has a key focus on students from disadvantaged communities. A pilot of LifeLab Dublin took place in 2022, and over 300 students took part in the programme.

The co-design, implementation and evaluation of LifeLab Dublin continued through 2023, with funding applications submitted to facilitate scale

The part that I liked the most is that it’s educative, fun, [and] it teaches us about health Soweto

up to a wider audience.

Genes can be activated or suppressed and my health habits have an effect on my genes and those of any future children I may have Sydney

I like LifeLab beca use it’s fun to learn in a differe nt way. Instead of learning somethin g off a whiteboard, we ge t to learn physically as we ll. We’ve learnt about how to ge t healthy, and wh at can cause you to get unhealthy.

People should ha ve to learn abou t this… otherwise yo u can’t change Dublin

Meet Skelly.........

Skelly became one of the stars of the show in our recent 'Young Researcher Training Development Programme'!

During the Pathways to Health project, we worked with the P2H and EACH-B teams to develop a programme to train our young people in being researchers. With additional support from the 'Widening Participation and Social Mobility' department and the new NIHRfunded Research Support Service, we employed 12 young people to spend almost two weeks with us devising, scripting and creating a series of videos to appeal to young people and bring the training programme to life. The nine videos, which were filmed by local agency RCM, are titled (1) “What is Research?”, (2) “Reflexive and Reflective Research”, (3) “Desk-based Research”, (4) “Research Methods”, (5) “Research Ethics”, (6) “Data Collection”, (7) “Epicollect - a data collection tool”, (8) “Data Analysis”; (9) “Dissemination”.

The videos will be a part of a ‘Young Researcher Training Toolkit’ which will also include session plans, PowerPoint presentations and worksheets. Bringing to life the rest of the toolkit and creating these resources was the focus for the Autumn Term LifeLab Youth Panel.

This toolkit will be made available for schools, youth groups and other organisations to use to encourage young people to learn about research. Watch out for the training programme later this year, but in the meantime, take a look at this video which captures just how much fun we had during the week! https://bit.ly/YRTPBehindTheScenes

This project is an example of one of our creative arts projects run in partnership with Michelle Smith, Theatre Director at Theatre for Life, Tamar Pincus (FELS) and Lucy Green (FoM). Funded by the Public Engagement with Research Unit, and University of Southampton, we have used creative methods and activities to provide safe spaces where people have generously shared their stories.

Our other projects with Theatre for Life have included 'Your Brain Explained' which is a school theatre production looking at the teenage brain and 'Generation Anthropocene' - a project where Arts and Science came together to inspire young people to tell the stories of climate change from different places in a street-based theatre piece.

Establishing our strong partnership with Theatre for Life has resulted in really exciting projects happening, which are engaging and reaching young people in novel ways.

Conversations

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Word cloud of participants’ feelings after the workshops

Co-creation and engagement: The LifeLab Youth Panel As researchers, one of our challenges is truly involving the people for whom we work.

How do we create a space for meaningful engagement and co-creation? How do we ensure they are equal partners in our work? How do we value their time appropriately?

Engaging with young people is at our core. This presents challenges and opportunities. We have a large potential cohort of people with lived experience (of being a teenager) to work with; however, employing young people under 16 is not always straightforward. With the aim of truly living the rhetoric of co-creation and enabling young people to shape the direction of our work, we challenged ourselves to find a solution. And so the LifeLab Youth Panel was born.

The first panel met in April 2022, and we have now employed more than 45 young people aged 14 to 18 years. Each panel comprises six young people who are employed for three hours per week; online for one hour and two hours of selfdirected work. Over the course of the panel we work together, building mutual trust and respect, on a collaborative project. The panelists see their input being valued and their confidence in sharing their opinions and ideas grows, and the pride in their outputs is tangible.

Deciding the terms of the Youth Panel’s employment The discussion about whether to employ lived-experience experts or reimburse them for their time with vouchers is an ongoing one. It feels to us that if you genuinely want your experts to be equal partners, then surely you have to pay them.

Vouchers are easier, but this feels like a token “thank you” rather than recognising their time as equals.

How we recruit young people for the panel We use all avenues to reach out to young people in the communities and spaces where they spend time. We advertise on social media using our platforms (which we recognise are unlikely to reach our target audience and so we rely on teachers, youth workers and parents to share the opportunity). Our next project is to work with Youth Panel alumni to build our social media presence on platforms that young people do frequent. The application process mimics a real job search: an application form, an interview and references.

The young people who are successful at interview then navigate the University’s HR, finance and IT systems – no mean feat for experienced I am enthusiastic about health and wellbeing in job seekers, but even more daunting at the age of 14. young people. I wanted to be part Reciprocated value of something that I knew would help the community and potentially The job offers the opportunity for young people to have their thoughts change lives and opinions valued and heard. It also gives them insights into employment; it builds confidence in sharing opinions, builds skills in listening and considering the opinions of others; and it builds social capital, offering both peer support from fellow youth panellists and professional support in terms of work experience, personal statements, insights into higher education, and contacts with professionals in careers of interest. The value to us is in knowing the work we do is in areas of most need for young people and is informed appropriately, and that the outputs we produce are as tailored to the target audience as they can be.

The youth panel has enabled me to develop my researching skills, my ability to present information in a clear manner, my communication, my time management, my organisation and my teamwork

thank you for the experience my daughter [had on] the Youth Panel.

She learned so much from working with you. From the outside speakers, to managing a time sheet, joining her first 'works do', to carry out independent research - It was such a powerful introduction to work and such an authentic and empowering opportunity for her to be heard

Panel Outputs The LifeLab Youth Panels have co-created several resources to date: Summer term 2022: A guide to clinical research for a teenage audience, including the ‘In a Nutshell’ animations series, along with articles for the University Hospital Southampton Clinical Research magazine (here (pgs 2,7,10 and 14) and here (pgs 7,11 and 15)).

Summer holiday 2022: A guide to support young people to eat more healthily and be more active.

Autumn term 2022: An online, interactive guide for students to help them navigate exam stress and look after their mental and physical health during the exam period.

Spring and summer term 2023: These Youth Panels have focused on understanding the role vaping plays in the lives of young people, and cocreating a resource to support schools and youth organisations to engage and educate young people about vaping, including a VR experience.

Alongside these specific outputs, the Youth Panels have worked with researchers to support work across the university. They have read lay summaries for funding applications and provided detailed feedback; they have supported the development of policy recommendations; and prepared a response to a governmental call for evidence.

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OUR TEAM Our staff work collectively to deliver interventions and professional development, organise research trials, and develop partnerships that give children and young people opportunities

Kathryn Woods-Townsend

Rachel Gagen Early LifeLab

Kate Bartlett Developing Talent

Programme Director

Teaching Fellow

Lead

Lisa Bagust Secondary LifeLab Programme Manager

Rachel Drewer LifeLab Communication Lead

Claire Colbain LifeLab Technical Lead

Donna Lovelock Early LifeLab Programme Manager

Bethany White LifeLab Teaching Fellow

Natasha Green Early LifeLab Teaching Fellow

Morgan Mason Early LifeLab PhD Student

OUR DIRECTORS

Professor Mary

Professor Chris

Professor Keith

Barker

Downey

Godfrey

Professor Mark

Professor Hazel

Dr Kathryn

Hanson

Inskip

Woods-Townsend

OUR (REAL) TEAM Our LifeLab Youth Panels have been made up of the most amazing young people; articulate, enthusiastic, committed, opinionated, dedicated, creative and passionate.

Sophia

Inna

Oscar

Ava

Hiba

Joseph

Maddie

Seb Jas

Jesmeen

Vishaan

Rhiannon

Fern Neylia Nilab

Ewan

Esther

Evan

Tehya

Lacey-Paige

Eva Maria Seb

Emily

Clive

Imogen

Kemi

Alisha

Aananya

Maia

Samuel Abbie

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