The good sex project

Thomson, Rachel and McGeeney, Ester (2017). The good sex project. [Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive. 10.5255/UKDA-SN-851539

This is a one year knowledge exchange project involving a collaboration between the University of Sussex and the young people’s sexual health charity Brook. The aim of the project is to explore new and creative ways of using research to inform evidence based practice in youth sexual health service delivery. The focus of the project will be on developing ‘sex-positive’ approaches to young people’s sexual health and on creating tools for practitioners to use to engage young people in work around ‘good sex’ and sexual pleasure.

The project will involve a team of researchers, practitioners, young people, a film-maker and a theatre director/writer who will use original research on young people’s sexual relationships and cultures to produce the following outputs:

Three short films targeting;

young people

sexual health practitioners/educators

general public

A training programme and resources for sexual health practitioners on engaging young people in work around sexual pleasure

An module on pleasure to be included in Brook’s online induction programme

A literature review of evidence for ‘sex-positive’ approaches to education and service development

A research blog documenting the knowledge exchange methods
http://www.goodsexproject.wordpress.com
goodsexproject.wordpress.com

Data description (abstract)

This collection contains a series of short films that reanimate original research data. The films were made as part of a particiaptory youth arts project. The collection also contains short film interviews with experts in the field of sex education and youth sexual health service delivery.

Data creators:

Creator Name	Affiliation	ORCID (as URL)
Thomson Rachel	University of Sussex
McGeeney Ester	University of Sussex

Sponsors:

ESRC, Brook

Grant reference:

ES/K005421/1

Topic classification:

Media, communication and language
Health
Education
Society and culture

Keywords:

sex, pleasure, filmmaking, participation, young adults, youth

Project title:

Good sex? Building evidence based practice in sexual health services for young people.

Grant holders:

Rachel Thomson, Ester McGeeney

Project dates:

From	To
1 July 2013	30 June 2014

Date published:

03 Oct 2014 12:57

Last modified:

14 Jul 2017 08:34

Coverage and Methodology

Temporal coverage:

From	To
1 April 2010	30 June 2014

Collection period:

Date from:	Date to:
1 July 2013	30 June 2014

Geographical area:

London

Country:

United Kingdom

Data collection method:

Part 1: Participatory film-making and data re-use.

The aim of this part of the project was to invite artists and young people to engage in secondary data analysis and to explore ways of using the data to make short films. Stage one involved a two day participatory workshop run by a theatre director who used theatre and performance techniques to engage young people with survey and interview data. Stage two involved an 11 week participatory film making workshop involving the project lead researcher, a film-maker and young volunteers.

The aim of both workshops was to develop new methods for participatory data analysis and data re-use. The methods used are documented and described in three blog posts. One describes the participatory arts based methods used to analyze survey data and use it to make two short films during stage on2: http://goodsexproject.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/reanimating-survey-data-the-good-sex-film/ Another blog describes the participatory arts based methods used to work with sensitive interview data about sex and sexual desire. http://goodsexproject.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/the-story-of-jessica-turning-interview-data-into-film/ A third blog documents the methods used over the course of the longer workshop during stage two of this part of the project:
http://goodsexproject.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/kats-story-experiments-in-reanimating-data/

The data archived here are the films that were produced as a result of these workshops. These films re-use existing research data to create new data for use in examining young people’s sexual cultures and exploring participatory arts based methods and methods of data re-use

Part 2: Expert interviews

Interviews were conducted with experts in the field and were filmed by a professional film-maker. Interviewees have given their permission for edited versions of their interview to be made publicly available.

Observation unit:

Event/Process, Group, Individual, Organization

Kind of data:

Video

Type of data:

Qualitative and mixed methods data

Resource language:

English

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