RISE (Research methods In School Education) is funded by King’s Widening Participation and was established in 2016 as a collaboration between researchers from HERON and The REACH (Resilience, Ethnicity and AdolesCent mental Health) Study. RISE aims to engage young people on the topic of health inequalities, deliver research methods training and inspire young people to think critically about local community health. By creatively engaging local secondary school and sixth form students currently underrepresented on KCL undergraduate psychology and other health-related programmes, including nursing and medicine, the project also aims to encourage young people to stay in education and develop a career in science and health-related professions.
RISE 2019
- January-February: RISE are holding a 4-week course with Year 9 Psychology students at Harris Girls’ Academy East Dulwich. The course aims to build on the students’ existing knowledge of psychological research by providing illustrative examples of how to apply research methods to real data, relevant to their community.
- April-June: In the summer term, we are running a 7-week RISE course with A-Level Psychology students at St-Martin-in-the-Field High School for Girls. Students will receive in-depth research methods training and, at the end of the course, they will have the opportunity to design and present their own research study at a half-day Psychological Research Conference held at the school.
RISE 2017-18
RISE 2016-17 16 students applied and were accepted onto the course which consisted of three 2-hour interactive workshops elaborating and extending upon the A-level Sociology and Psychology curricula by teaching statistics and research methods in an engaging way. Throughout the three workshops, published studies of local community health data, including the South East London Community Health study (SELCoH), were used as illustrative examples of how to apply research methods to real data, relevant to their community. Themes covered a range of health related topics including mental health, illicit drug use, health service use, and discrimination. Using the skills gained from the workshops students used the presented ideas on community health to inspire their own research designs to tackle health problems most important to them. Facilitators mentored four separate groups to prepare their research design for presentation at a final event at the ORTUS, Maudsely Hospital, on the 8th February 2017, where students presented their work to an expert panel of researchers at King’s College London. At the end of each workshop and the final event, researchers collected feedback from students through feedback questionnaires in order to improve the pilot intervention and gauge the success of the public engagement activity. In addition, a focus group was conducted with seven students two weeks after the final event. The RISE course at CTK was co-presented at the Engaged Learning Conference in Sheffield by RISE members Sanchika Campbell and Dr Stephanie Beards on 6th-7th July 2017. A paper describing and evaluating the process of co-producing RISE using a YPAR approach and the key learning points derived from this process will be submitted for peer-review in Autumn 2017. Work Experience at King's College London RISE at Harris Girls Academy
Previous workshops The session focused on looking at the socio-demographic and socioeconomic determinants of health inequalities in South East London with the aim to provide: Student testimonials Esma, 19 (Former RISE student and former A-Level student at Christ the King: Aquinas)