Youth-led Participatory Action Research

YPAR (Youth-led Participatory Action Research) is a social justice term used to describe the community-based research that youth partake in.

The Schools Participatory Action Research Collaborative (previously known as the Center for the Study of Boys' and Girls' Lives) at the University of Pennsylvania is a collaboration with a group of schools to 'systematically mobilize student insights and voices to improve school culture, policy and practice'. Member schools (as at April 2024) are: Belmont Hill School (Belmont, MA), Collegiate School (New York, NY), Crescent School (Toronto, ON, Canada), Greenwich Academy (Greenwich, CT), Lawrenceville School (Lawrenceville, NJ), Miss Porter's School (Farmington, CT), Phillips Exeter Academy (Exeter, NH), St Alban's School (Mount St Alban's, Washington, DC), The Blake School (Minneapolis, MN) and The Shipley School (Bryn Mawr, PA).