Research Partners

One of the hallmarks of youngballymun is rigorous and revealing ongoing evaluation in order to benchmark results against the hoped-for outcomes from the inititaitve as a whole.

With this mind youngballymun will commission various pieces of research and evaluation work over the next few years. Already work has been completed on our behalf by the following agencies:

Ballymun Needs Analysis April 2006
Centre for Social & Educational Research  - Dublin Institute of Technology

The Mental Health of Children and the factors which influence it:
A study of Families in Ballymun March 2005
Kieran McKeown Limited Social & Economic Research Consultants

Hearing the Voice of Ballymun
Compiled by the Ballymun Development Group for Children and Young People with Malcolm Byrne.