The “school run” - SATNAV Compass
We have now successfully completed five trials within three secondary schools. We are excited to continue trials with these schools next year and bring new schools on board.
These trials are underpinned by our research into childhood morality and the process evaluation findings from our initial pilot study.
The positive impacts emerging from the six completed trials inspire us to roll out Youth Compass in secondary schools, extending and scaling up across the UK – and beyond.
The three schools taking part are in different geographical locations and have diverse population demographics, providing us with the opportunity to see how a range of participants respond to the programme.
The programme is delivered once a week for one hour with sessions taking place during the school day. The school staff leading the sessions are trained and supported by our highly skilled and experienced team. During our weekly fieldwork debriefs, we learn from one another, bringing theory into practice.
So far, 240 participants from Years 7, 8 and 9 have taken part.
The findings of this work are available on our Articles and academic papers page.
What is SAT NAV?
SATNAV Compass forms part of a wider project called SATNAV.
SATNAV combines the focus on individual morality in SATNAV Compass (Principal Investigator, Dr Neema Trivedi-Bateman; Co-Investigator, Dr Beth Hardie) with a focus on the moral context of the schools.
SATNAV is a comprehensive and collaborative researcher-practitioner programme which aims to build effective behaviour management and develop morality. This is done through collaboration with schools to build strong moral contexts within the school setting.
Dr Beth Hardie (University of Cambridge) and Dr Neema Trivedi-Bateman have developed SATNAV. Rooted in Situational Action Theory (SAT) and underpinned by the evidence pioneered by the University of Cambridge Centre for Analytic Criminology, the SATNAV programme helps schools to grow young people who make the right behavioural choices beyond the school day in their communities and post-16 into their future.