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Alice Weavers

Alice Weavers

PhD candidate

Biography

Alice is a PhD candidate and a member of the King’s College London and The Edge Foundation project team on an ESRC-funded study – Opportunity, equality and agency in England: a longitudinal study of post-16 transitions. Alice’s research is linked to this study and focuses on youth participation in government policymaking.

Alice’s background is in youth and community work. Prior to joining King’s, she was a Policy Advisor in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Working in the Youth Policy Team, she led an expansion of national youth voice programmes to enable young people to participate in government policy making. Alice is a qualified youth worker and alongside her studies, she is a trustee for a local youth charity and volunteers in a youth club and a Girlguiding unit.

Alice's thesis title is: Young people as policy actors: an exploration of their position, involvement and influence in government policymaking.

Principal supervisor: Professor Sharon Gewirtz

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Secondary supervisor: Dr Tania de St Croix

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Research

women at wokr
Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR)

The Centre for Public Policy Research is an interdisciplinary research centre research developing critical analyses of social change and social in/justice in education and other policy arenas, sectors and contexts to inform national and international policy debate, social activism, and personal, professional and organisational learning.

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Opportunity, equality and agency in England's new VET landscape: a longitudinal study of post-16 transitions (Young Lives, Young Futures)

How England's vocational education and training (VET) system could better support the school to work transitions of young people who don’t go to university.

Project status: Ongoing

News

ECS student wins Policy Idol 2023

ECS postgraduate researcher Alice Weavers was voted Policy Idol 2023 for her idea of gov.uk/youth, a platform to involve young people in national policy-making.

Policy Idol Alice Weavers

Young Lives, Young Futures: Helping young people shape the future of education

A project looking at education and employment opportunities available to young people who don't go to university has launched.

Young Lives Young Futures banner

Features

How do we change the status quo? Start by involving young people

The concept of child participation is enshrined in the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, but too often engagement with young people is tokenistic...

Raising aspirations article image

Research

women at wokr
Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR)

The Centre for Public Policy Research is an interdisciplinary research centre research developing critical analyses of social change and social in/justice in education and other policy arenas, sectors and contexts to inform national and international policy debate, social activism, and personal, professional and organisational learning.

begins-backpack
Opportunity, equality and agency in England's new VET landscape: a longitudinal study of post-16 transitions (Young Lives, Young Futures)

How England's vocational education and training (VET) system could better support the school to work transitions of young people who don’t go to university.

Project status: Ongoing

News

ECS student wins Policy Idol 2023

ECS postgraduate researcher Alice Weavers was voted Policy Idol 2023 for her idea of gov.uk/youth, a platform to involve young people in national policy-making.

Policy Idol Alice Weavers

Young Lives, Young Futures: Helping young people shape the future of education

A project looking at education and employment opportunities available to young people who don't go to university has launched.

Young Lives Young Futures banner

Features

How do we change the status quo? Start by involving young people

The concept of child participation is enshrined in the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, but too often engagement with young people is tokenistic...

Raising aspirations article image