Through the Teenage Reading Network, we identified that teenage voices were missing from a lot of the research on teenage reading.
PhD researcher, Courtney Hooton, was awarded a Public Engagement bursary by Royal Holloway’s ESRC-funded Social Science Impact Accelerator to work with teenagers to identify:
- The importance of reading for teenagers
- What teenagers think we can do to promote teenage reading
- Understand potential influences on teenage reading
To address these aims, we:
- Reviewed the research literature to understand effective approaches for working with teenagers
- Discussed reading with teenagers and individuals who work with them (e.g. teachers, researchers, authors)
- Worked together to enable the creation of researcher-led, teenager-led, author-led and BookToker-led video content
The videos are designed to be short and accessible and it will take roughly 20 minutes to watch all videos. You can find all of the videos on our YouTube channel (@TeenageReading_StudentVoices) or follow the links below:
Video 1 (researcher-led): The Never-ending Benefits of Reading
Video 2 (teenager-led): What Do Teenagers Think? Part 1
Video 3 (teenager-led): What Do Teenagers Think? Part 2
Video 4 (BookToker-led): What is BookTok?
Video 5 (author-led): Conversations with an author- Part 1: “Crossing The Line” by Tia Fisher
Video 6 (author-led): Conversations with an author- Part 2: What are verse novels?
Video 7 (author-led): Conversations with an author- Part 3: Tia’s verse novel recommendations
To ensure that the video package is doing what we hope, we are looking for people of any age to review it for us. Please scan the QR code below or follow this link to give us your feedback and have the chance to win a £50 Amazon voucher: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=mmn9LiIZaU62ARCACNKKLrUc7gM75QZNsZVoosmfMzNUNUdQQzY3WDc1MjFKMllJRVpUNTFKSlVHWi4u . Please note that this review survey will close on Friday 18th October 2024 at 5pm.
You can also find us on X (@courtneyhooton_ and @ricketts_lara)
Watch this space for a report summarising the project!
Team:
Dr Sam Fairlamb (see also @thepsychologydebrief )
Our network of young people from The Emmbrook School and Woking High School
Thank you to Tia Fisher and Natali Crystal for their contributions!