Opening doors: how to make work experience work for scientists and school students alikeGiving more secondary school students opportunities to experience working in a research lab means addressing faculty capacityKathryn Woods-Townsend, Kate BartlettUniversity of Southampton
A case study in developing the next STEM generation University ‘taster days’ can introduce teenagers to what global health research and advocacy might be like as a future career. Here four academics describe a pilot training session and what they learned from itMichael Head, Jessica Boxall, Winfred Dotse-Gborgbortsi, Kathryn Woods-TownsendUniversity of Southampton
Using co-creation to make young people equal research partnersBased on her experience developing a youth panel, Kathryn Woods-Townsend explains how her team collaborated with, employed and learned from the teenagers who are their lived-experience expertsKathryn Woods-TownsendUniversity of Southampton