Measuring Youth Well-being

Part 1. The Complex Nature of Well-being: From Academic Definitions to Policy Programmes.- Chapter 1. The Notion of Well-being Across Contexts and Countries (Gary Pollock).- Chapter 2. Child and Youth Well-Being on the European Political Agenda (Britta Busse).- Chapter 3. A Comparative Expert Survey on Measuring and Enhancing Well-being in Europe (Jessica Ozan).- Chapter 4. Conceptions of Well-being and Differences Among Children and Young People in Europe (Alexandros Sakellariou).- Part 2. Measuring Children and Young People's Well-being.- Chapter 5. Strengths and Shortcomings of Survey of Children and Young People Well-being (Haridhan Goswami).- Chapter 6. Longitudinal Research on Children and Young People in Europe and Beyond (Britta Busse).- Chapter 7. Current Attempts to Measure Children and Young People Well-being (Zsuzsa Szántó).- Chapter 8. How to Develop Well-being Survey Questions for Young Children: Lessons Learned from Cross-cultural Cognitive Interviews (Renata Franc).- Part 3. Possibilities for Further Research.- Chapter 9. Challenges in Conducting a New Longitudinal Study on Children and Young People Well-being in European Union (Gary Pollock).- Chapter 10. Strategies and Methodological Challenges for Involving Children and Young People in a Research on Wellbeing (Mariona Ferrer-Fons).- Chapter 11. With a View Towards the Future: Different Options to Measure the Well-being of Children and Young People Across Europe longitudinally (Jessica Ozan).- Chapter 12. The Potential Policy Benefits of Measuring Child Wellbeing Across Europe (Chris O'Leary).

Professor Gary PollockGary is the Head of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, a post he has held since 2008. He is an expert in both child and youth studies having published in the field of child well-being, the transition from school to work, youth leisure and employment and youth political engagement. Gary led the European Commission funded MYWeB (Measuring Youth Well-Being) project which provides the basis for the present book proposal. This was an investigation into the desirability and feasibility of developing a longitudinal survey of the well-being of children and young people across Europe. Gary co-led the European Commission funded MYPLACE (Memory, Youth, Political Legacy And Civic Engagement) project which studied the political and civic engagement of young people across Europe. He was responsible for the survey elements of this project. Gary's methodological expertise lies in longitudinal survey analysis, in particular using sequence analysis.
Dr Jessica OzanJessica is a Research Associate at the Policy and Evaluation Research unit, Manchester Metropolitan University. She was the lead researcher on the MYWeB (Measuring Youth Well-Being) project and was central to the H2020 InnoSi (Innovative Social Investment: Strengthening communities in Europe) project. Previous to this she was a doctoral fellow at UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway. Jessica also worked as part of a team undertaking the Process Evaluation of the Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative (Dublin, Ireland). This multi-faceted project aimed at improving the health, safety, learning, and overall wellbeing of children in the area.
Dr Haridhan GoswamiHaridhan has expertise in quantitative methods especially in survey design, testing reliability and validity of data collection instruments, multivariate analysis of data, and research with children and young people and their subjective well-being. He has