Children and young people’s participation in consultation - Dr Anwen J Marshall

Conversations about Consultation by Emma Ní Chinnéide, Zahra Ahmed, Jessica Rowley & Emily Crosby

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Dr Anwen Marshall graduated as an Educational Psychologist from Bristol University in 2021. She currently works in Bristol City Council where she also holds the role of ‘person-centred champion’. She supports person-centred work in her service and with colleagues. Before training as an Educational Psychologist (EP), Anwen worked as an Assistant EP in London for two-years, based in a primary school.

For her doctoral research, Anwen explored EPs’ views on children and young peoples participation in consultation meetings. This involved of two phases of data collection, phase one was an online questionnaire and phase two consisted of appreciative informed semi-structured interviews with EPs.

Her research found a difference between beliefs and current practice, where trainee EPs/EPs generally believed in the benefits of participation, but ... 

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consultationpsychologyeducation