About
Create/Connect explores the richness of trans and gender diverse young people’s lifeworlds, with focus on how young people connect with communities of belonging.
Create/Connect aims to better understand the supportive characteristics of trans and gender diverse young people’s social worlds which enable them to thrive, and identify areas of need to inform the development of future service provision.
Create/Connect supports the sharing of knowledge from trans and gender diverse young people that captures and communicates their needs and visions for the future.
Create/Connect seeks to empower trans and gender diverse youth to speak back to academic and public discourses on trans and gender diverse lives by focusing on vitality, resilience and creativity.
Create/Connect aims to influence social change, creating a more supportive environment for trans and gender diverse youth through capability-orientated research-led enquiry.
Create/Connect will produce, with partner organisations, research which embeds equity, diversity, intersectionality, inclusion, and anti-oppressive values in practice.
Funding and ethics information
The research is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and reviewed by the University of Southampton’s Research Ethics Committee.
