Reflections on working with the Levenshulme girl's group

In 2019-2020 the ESRC funded 'Reanimating data: experiments with people, places and archives'. Part of the project involved staging a series of reanimations using data from interviews with young women from Manchester, conducted thirty years previously as part of the Women, Risk and AIDS Project (WRAP 1988-1990). Each reanimation involved a collaboration between young women, educators and researchers and used creative methods to explore the WRAP data and bring it to life in new ways.   
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Ali Ronan, historian and former youth worker, shares her reflective field notes on working with the Levenshulme girl's group to 'reanimate' some of the Women, Risk &amp; AIDS Project interviews. There are also reflections from researcher Ester McGeeney who joined the group at Levenshulme Youth Project for a couple of sessions. They talk about some of the opportunities and challenges of working with the WRAP data with young women and of youth work in general. This is a useful resource for youth workers, Relationships and Sex educators and youth researchers.