The University of Bedfordshire’s Safer Young Lives Research Centre (SYLRC) works to create and share knowledge around young people’s experiences of abuse, and to work with others – locally, nationally and internationally – to better prevent and respond to this.
We were previously known as ‘The International Centre: Researching child sexual exploitation, violence and trafficking’, but changed our name in March 2021 to better reflect the full nature of our work.
We are committed to:
- The empowerment and protection of young people
- Transparency and excellence in research
- Being theoretically informed and practically relevant
- Collaborative and partnership-based working
- Young people’s safe and meaningful participation
- Inclusive and anti-oppressive practice
- Ethical and innovative ways of working
You can find full details of staff, projects and publications at the SYLRC website at http://www.beds.ac.uk/sylrc
The Safer Young Lives Research Centre (SYLRC) Blog 