1. Making the Long View: Archiving, Representing and Sharing a Qualitative Longitudinal Resource March 2005 – August 2006

2. Making the Long View Debby Holder & Jorge Camacho Sheila Henderson, Janet Holland, Rachel Thomson Sheena McGrellis & Sue Sharpe Based in the Families & Social Capital ESRC Research Group London South Bank University

3. The Inventing Adulthoods study A unique QL study combining three ESRC-funded studies from 1996-2006 Rich biographical accounts of all aspects of life of a diverse group of 100 young people (aged 11-19 in 1996, now aged 20-28) growing up in five areas of the UK Methods: biographical interviews, focus groups, lifelines, memory books, questionnaires, research assignments

4. The Inventing Adulthoods dataset AgeQuestion naire Focus Group InterviewLifelineMemory book Research Assignmt Youth Values 1996-99 11-17 1800 331 62 grps Int 1 57272 Inventing Adulthoods 1999 - 2001 14-23 Int 2 121 104 Int 3 98 49 Int 4 83 Revisited at this round 4 groups Youth Transitions 2002 - 2006 17-28 Int 5 70 Int 6 64

5. Inventing Adulthoods Case Data Raw Questionnaire (up to 3) Individual interview audio cassette and transcript (up to 6) Focus group audio cassette and transcript (up to 2) Lifeline (& follow-up) Memorybook Contextual /Research process Researcher’ fieldnotes Researcher’ reflections Young people’s reflections Young people reflect on listening to their tapes Analysis First stage: narrative analysis, case profile Published and unpublished case studies

6. Making the Long View: Archiving the Inventing Adulthoods study Explore creative ways of overcoming ethical & practical problems involved in providing access to a qualitative longitudinal (QL) dataset OUTPUTS A detailed, ethically sound, contextualized, partial QL data set of young people’s experiences of growing up in five areas of the UK at the turn of the century ready for deposit and sharing /-reuse (10 cases) A network of secondary users for the archived dataset An exemplar of good methodological and ethical practice in the archiving and sharing of qualitative data An assessment of the costs involved in archiving a QL dataset

7. Making the Long View: Progress (Re)use of the dataset facilitated and these dataset users consulted. An important basis for developing ethical selection criteria and methods of renegotiating consent and of representing data Case selection: initial criteria, selection & consent; consent process with 10 yp begun Data collation / digitisation (sample of 25) Contextualisation process begun

10. Contextual data collected during the Inventing Adulthoods study Methodology development process Research process and relationship: - YP’s reflections on the research process - YP’s reflections on listening to their tapes - Researcher’ fieldnotes, predictions, reflections Making the Long View

11. Contextual data collected for Making the Long View Digital audio clips edited from a focus group : researcher reflections (e.g. Maintaining a research team, sample maintenance, gatekeepers, locality, participatory approach, effects on young people & on researchers, ‘walking alongside’) Making the Long View

12. Capturing and describing context: time as the organising theme Methodology Research Time Cross-sample data Historical Time Biographical data Biographical Time www.lsbu.ac.uk/inventingadulthoods Making the Long View