The Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions is a multi-disciplinary research center focused on education, employment, risky behaviors, and transitions faced by disadvantaged youth. The center is led by Director Paul Johnson and Research Director Ingrid Schoon, and has expertise across various social science fields. Key research themes include education and employment transitions, risky behaviors and positive activities, and outcomes for disadvantaged and vulnerable youth groups. The center conducts quantitative and qualitative research using large datasets to inform education and social policy.

1. Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions

2. Team Paul Johnson, Director Ingrid Schoon, Research Director Alissa Goodman, Anna Vignoles and Andy Ross, Deputy Directors

4. 3 highly respected organisations with close working relationships

6. Cutting edge methodologically

7. Extensive experience in use of large scale survey and administrative data

10. Widening participation in HE

11. Aspirations and expectations

12. School engagement

13. Timing and sequencing of transition experiences

14. Combining multiple roles in education, employment and family life

15. Returns to education

16. Self regulation

17. Life styles

18. School engagement/ disengagement

19. Truancy

20. Smoking, drinking and drugs

21. Intergenerational relationships governing health and well being

22. Youth crime

23. Poverty

24. Family structure

25. Ethnicity

26. Teenage mothers

27. Early school leavers

28. Mental health

29. Victims of bullying

30. Special Educational Needs

32. Education transitions imminent introduction of the age 18 education and training participation age rapidly rising youth unemployment rate strong focus on improving our understanding of the drivers of education and labour market transitions holistic approach to the numerous transitions young people make when moving from adolescence into adulthood way in which different types of transition (in education, employment, family life and housing) interact.

33. Risky behaviour risky or anti-social behaviours/ positive behaviours how these behaviours interact with one another not all young people persist in such behaviours over the long term many behaviours are strongly linked with youth identity formation and social interactions Costs/ benefits of different strategies universal versus targeted when best to intervene.

34. Disadvantaged and vulnerable groups not all young people are affected in the same way by adversity many of vulnerable and disadvantaged groups are more likely to be unemployed, to have children outside of marriage, to be socially isolated, to commit crimes, and to live in poverty need for better understanding of these specific and cumulative risk effects. examine in more detail how disadvantaged and vulnerable youth navigate important transitions

35. CBA – drugs policy evaluation of whether policies based on prevention/communication or those focused on treatment/enforcement are more cost effective determine a sensible “balance of intervention” CBA Methodology: review of existing literature, use of published data on costs monetary values on immediate impacts of programmes through linking those impacts to longer term individual and social benefits using available evidence to put estimates on these monetary values

36. Jobs without training significant numbers of young people enter jobs that have no training attached with low pay and short contracts most focus on NEETs - less analysis of the JWT group yet these young people are a large and important component of the youth labour market they make up around two-thirds of those who leave full-time education post-16 poor initial job quality likely to have long-lasting effects on future employment, earnings, and skill development