Lived Experience Research
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On this page you will find details of opportunities specifically for care leavers, including involvement in studies and research projects.
Please note that these opportunities are independent of the Rees Foundation, and we do not check or verify the organisations or projects listed. If you choose to participate, you will find contact details provided below each opportunity — please get in touch with the organisers directly to help ensure a smooth process for getting involved. We encourage you to consider each opportunity carefully and make sure it feels right for you. |
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The use of genograms as a research tool to discuss intergenerational processes in care leavers – an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Intergenerational processes refer to different ways in which older generations pass on their experience, psychologically, through to the younger ones. These can be linked with our cultural heritage, pride and a sense of who we are, as well as trauma and pain. Previous studies looked at groups of people’s experience of intergenerational process (e.g., families of Holocaust survivors). However, researchers have not looked at how the experiences of parents and grandparents get passed on to their children who lived in care for some time of their life.
One way to look at this is by drawing out a genogram, similar to a family tree, which can be helpful to open conversations about relationships in our family. To do this, we would like to invite care leavers to attend two one-to-one interviews via Microsoft Teams, to develop their family tree and then reflect on how they found this experience.
Participation Criteria:
Name: Zsuzsanna Nemeth
Email: [email protected]
One way to look at this is by drawing out a genogram, similar to a family tree, which can be helpful to open conversations about relationships in our family. To do this, we would like to invite care leavers to attend two one-to-one interviews via Microsoft Teams, to develop their family tree and then reflect on how they found this experience.
Participation Criteria:
- Aged 18+
- Care experienced
Name: Zsuzsanna Nemeth
Email: [email protected]
Navigating Adulthood After Foster Care: The Lived Experiences of Care Leavers
This study explores the experiences of young people who have aged out of foster care. The research focuses on the factors that have shaped their journey as they transitioned from care into independent adulthood.
Participation involves a 1 hour online interview which will be the space to share views and experiences.
Participation criteria:
Name: Trisha Kissindja
Email: [email protected]
Participation involves a 1 hour online interview which will be the space to share views and experiences.
Participation criteria:
- Aged 21+
- Were in foster care and aged out of the system
Name: Trisha Kissindja
Email: [email protected]
Caring Communities Research Project: Rethinking children's social care, 1800-present
Children’s social care has changed significantly over time, yet the voices and experiences of care-experienced people are often missing from research and policy discussions. Caring Communities is a research project exploring how children and young people have experienced care from the past to the present, placing lived experience at the centre of the research.
This study aims to work alongside care-experienced people to better understand how care has been felt, understood, and shaped over time, and how these experiences can inform more compassionate care practices in the future.
What is involved:
Participation criteria:
Find out more here.
Name: Dr Claudia Soares
Email: [email protected]
This study aims to work alongside care-experienced people to better understand how care has been felt, understood, and shaped over time, and how these experiences can inform more compassionate care practices in the future.
What is involved:
- A one-to-one interview with experienced oral historian, Kate Wilson
- Interview can be in person or online at a time to suit you
- You can choose to be anonymous
Participation criteria:
- You or a family member have experience of being cared for in a residential children’s home, foster care, adoption, kinship care, special guardianship care
- You are/have been a care professional (eg: social worker)
- You are/have been a carer
Find out more here.
Name: Dr Claudia Soares
Email: [email protected]
