Thank you for your interest in Young Women's Trust. Without volunteers, progress in our research would be impossible.
Please read the information below before continuing:
About us
Young Women's Trust champions young women aged 18 to 30 on low or no pay.
We're here to create a more equal world of work and raise young women's incomes. We tackle sexism and misogyny, with and for anyone who has experienced this. Find out about the free services we offer and about our research and campaigns on our
website.
We want to hear about your experiences of insecure work for our latest research We are looking for young women and people with marginalised gender identities aged 18 to 30 with experience of insecure work in England or Wales in the past five years.
When we talk about insecure work, we mean any of the following:
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Non-permanent work - such as agency, seasonal or
fixed-term jobs,
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Where you are underemployed (working less than
16 hours per week but want to work more)
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Where you have unpredictable pay and hours,
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Zero-hour contracts (no specified minimum hours
per week) and,
· Low-paid self-employed work.
Our
research shows that over a third of young women are worried about job security, including how long their job will last for. We want to find out more. Through this research, we want to understand young
women's experiences of insecure work, the reasons for taking it on and what pathways out of insecure work look like.
All research activities will be led or facilitated by
our peer researchers. Our peer researchers are all young women and non binary people who have experience of the issues we tackle and have been trained to carry out research with other young people with similar experiences.
We will use the findings from this research to work together with policymakers and employers to develop solutions to the barriers young women face and support young women to advocate for themselves.
How to take partThere are a variety of ways to take part in our research,
these include;
- In-person focus groups
- Online interviews,
- Online discussion
forums and,
- WhatsApp voice
notes.
If you're interested, please complete this form to register
your interest. You will then be sent an e-mail with all of the information you
need to take part. The form will also ask you for some information about yourself to help us understand whose voices are being heard in our research and who we need to work harder to reach. Completing these demographic questions is voluntary.
If you don't want to answer a question you can skip it and it will not affect
your participation in the research.
We will send a voucher to everyone who takes part in the research to thank you for your time.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at
researchcentre@youngwomenstrust.org