Invitation to tender: Peer Research for ‘Digital Lives’ project

Title: Peer Research for Grown Up? Digital Lives project

Commissioner: Nuffield Foundation

Aim: To work with young people to gather insight into their experiences of growing up with digital technology

Timescales and key dates:

Deadline for submissions: 12 Noon Wednesday 26th February 2025

Appointment: 17th March 2025

Project start date: 24th March 2025

Project completion date: no later than 1st September 2025

Budget:

Work Package 1: tenders are invited up to circa £100,000 (including VAT)

Work Package 2: tenders are invited up to circa £15,000 (including VAT)

Introduction and background:

The Nuffield Foundation has developed the Grown up? programme to respond to the urgent challenges young people face in navigating the journey to adulthood in the UK today. The project aims to capture both common experiences and issues that this new generation of young people are facing, as well as delving deeper into differences between groups and places. 

The Ada Lovelace Institute, part of the Nuffield Foundation, is delivering the work focused on digital life within the wider Grown Up? programme framing. The project will aim to explore digital life holistically, considering what it means to grow up digital rather than focusing on the binary harm/opportunity which is often the starting point for research and social commentary around this topic. Our qualitative research will explore the lived experience of young people from different communities and identities as they grow up with digital technologies.