Next Steps: Understanding children and young people’s experiences of navigating life after their families leave the Armed Forces.

The Next Steps project is essential to address current knowledge gaps by exploring the experiences of children and young people before, during and after their parent/guardian transitions out of the Armed Forces community. This project will explore the areas that they indicate need consideration, and the generated knowledge will be used to identify good practice that currently exists in supporting them as well as the further development that is needed. It starts from the premise that this is a heterogeneous group from a diversity of backgrounds and experiences, both positive and negative, and with expertise about their own lives. By directly involving children and young people in the design of the research and process, the study will provide a rich, authentic, detailed and nuanced understanding of the unique opportunities and challenges they experience at this particular transition point in the serving parent’s/guardian’s career and their family life.

People

	Name	Telephone	Email	Office
	Dr Anne Chappell Reader - Education (Principal investigator)			Gaskell Building 207