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. 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 & 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.