Deadline: 24-Jun-22
Applications are now open for the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence.
Funding Information
- To support this, they’re launching a £500,000 research round.
- They are looking to fund 2-5 projects.
- They expect most projects to be delivered over 12-18 months from initial commissioning.
What research methods and approaches will they fund?
- The types of methodologies they’d expect to see include:
- Descriptive analysis – particular interest in cohorts or issues which haven’t been explored before, a key example would be issues of racial or other disproportionalities.
- Relationship testing – for example simple linear regressions or multi-level modelling that look to test for the existence of relationships to offending outcomes.
- Impact -Quasi-experimental methods that exploit variations in policy or practice to establish casual relationships with offending and other violence related outcomes.
What questions are they looking to address?
- In this call they’re asking for research proposals that fit with the themes of the YEF’s first three funding rounds:
- Diversion from the criminal justice system;
- A supportive home; and,
- A safe, positive place to learn.
Evidence Gaps
- Some of the important evidence gaps they’ve identified are:
- Which children are diverted? How does this vary across locations, and what racial and other disproportionalities exist?
- How are they diverted? How are decisions made for different types of diversion, and are the right young people diverted?
- How do diversions affect future offending outcomes including frequency and severity? What is the impact of local variation in implementation of diversion and other policy reforms?
Application Considerations
- Initial applications should be a brief expression of interest, the will then request full proposals from successful applicants.
- Shortlisted proposals will then be invited for interview.
- They will work with successful teams to refine proposals from Autumn 2022 before final plans are agreed.
For more information, visit https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/news/yef-launches-new-500000-research-round/
