This training handbook forms part of the CPD accredited e-course "Conducting youth-led research: Informing and influencing social policy. 
 
The Handbook aims to empower young people from all walks of life as well as anyone working with them in order to better understand:
 
What social policy is and how to inform and influence it.
What youth-led and user-led research is, and how to use it to collect evidence in social sciences including youth policy, crime, equalities and human rights.
How to conduct youth-led research using interviews focus groups and questionnaires.
How to analyse your qualitative data and transform them into arguments for informing and influencing social policy
How to present and write your research and arguments including being able to identify your methodology strengths and limitations.