Peter Traynor

About

A mixed methods researcher, Peter has over fifteen years of experience in research and policy evaluation in academia and the third sector. His research has explored initiatives focused on crime and youth crime and has given voice to some of the unheard in society, including victim/survivors of domestic violence and homicide and young victims and perpetrators of crime. In 2017 he completed an ESRC funded PhD at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Leeds, for which he explored why some young people carry knives and how their peers responded to this. Peter is also an experienced editor; for three he was years Managing Editor of the Journal of Probation, and had his own copy-editing business as a student, during which he helped many academics and post-graduate students to improve their writing. In his spare time Peter likes to exercise and visit the cinema.

What they are involved with at Youth Futures?

Peter is a Research Manager in the Research and Impact team and manages a diverse portfolio of work including currently the Youth Employment Toolkit and Policy Journeys mapping project, and has delivered among other projects the Workplace Discrimination Survey and Review of Systems Change.