CATCH-EyoU: Public Authorities engaging with youth: Interviews: UK

The data set includes discourse analysis and thematic content analysis of interview transcripts collected with UK and regional politicians, local government youth policy officers, public officials and representatives of youth umbrella organizations. The data set consists of a 38 page preliminary report that summarizes themes and discourses emerging from transcribed extracts derived from 14 audio-recorded interviews in the UK.  Personal data has been anonymized in order to protect participants’ privacy. 

This dataset aims to identify discourses and themes emerging from interviews with policy makers regarding whether and to what extent European Youth policies have been implemented at national, regional and local levels in various member states. 

Previous research has only partially answered these questions; comparing different policy makers’ perspectives, will allow researchers to identify tensions and contradictions in policies implementation, providing new insight for improving policy implementation.