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IAS Guest Speakers & delivers a seminar on their research, fully titled "Producing Evidence That Works: Co鈥憄roduction, Program Design, and Impact in Sport鈥態ased Youth Development" -

Sport-based positive youth development programs are increasingly used worldwide to support the psychosocial wellbeing, engagement, and life skills of young people experiencing social and economic disadvantage. Yet, despite their widespread adoption, significant questions remain about how such programs should be designed, how their impacts should be evaluated, and whose perspectives shape definitions of “success”.

This seminar draws on a long鈥憈erm research partnership between academics at the University of New South Wales with Creating Chances, a large Australian social enterprise delivering sport鈥慴ased youth development programs. The seminar will bring together three complementary areas of work to explore how evidence can be generated in ways that are both methodologically rigorous and practically meaningful.

First, we reflect on the realities of evaluating large鈥憇cale programs in real鈥憌orld settings, including the methodological tensions that arise when randomisation, individual tracking, and experimental control are not feasible. Rather than aiming for idealised study designs, we explore how evaluation can still generate credible, decision鈥憆elevant evidence under these conditions.

Secondly, the seminar presents findings from a large evaluation examining how program design features such as duration, attendance, and sustained engagement are associated with psychosocial outcomes. 

Finally, we describe a co鈥憄roduction process in which practitioners and young people were actively involved in shaping what outcomes are measured and how. This work demonstrates how participatory approaches can improve the relevance, acceptability, and usability of evaluation tools, while also addressing power dynamics between researchers, organisations, and participants.

Taken together, this seminar argues for a reframing of impact in youth development research, moving beyond narrow outcome metrics toward context鈥憆esponsive that supports development and meaningful social change. While grounded in sport鈥慴ased youth development, the insights have relevance across education, health, and community鈥慴ased intervention research.

Arrivals from 11:45 am for a 12:00 noon start. For those joining in-person, lunch will be served after the seminar from 1:00pm.

This event is hybrid format, please use the required booking button at the bottom of the page to choose either in-person or online attendance.
(Please note that in-person spaces are limited and booking is required, so we can manage numbers for catering and also the space in the seminar room)

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