Co-creating digital education about parenting and father-inclusive practice: combining QL impact research and commercialisation for the social good

这个独特的定性纵向影响和创新项目建立在动态定性纵向证据基础上，该证据基础是通过以下年轻父亲进一步研究（Tarrant, 2020-24）建立的关于年轻父亲和父亲包容实践的定性纵向证据基础。为此，它建立了新颖和创新的知识交流机制，旨在提高年轻父亲养育子女的能力和改善专业支助文化。年轻父亲（25岁及以下）仍然是一些最边缘化和被歪曲的人群，在政策和实践中继续受到羞辱和诽谤。在年轻男性被描述为缺席和无能的地方，性别化的职业文化和环境使他们边缘化，以下的年轻父亲进一步的研究产生了令人信服的相反证据。迄今为止，这项研究强调了年轻父亲对年轻男子生命历程的变革潜力，以及通过研究促进参与性方法的价值，这些研究直接使他们参与创新解决办法，包括培训他们进行宣传。这项研究表明，在多机构专业人员中促进富有同情心、包容父亲的支持，同时投资于年轻父亲作为自己和他人的倡导者，是通过促进对他们的新的、积极的看法来解决他们边缘化问题的有力方法。在这一证据的基础上，让年轻父亲和专业人士作为倡导者和倡导者参与其中，该项目将促进共同创造和发展一项独特的创新；一个叫做DigiDAD的数字电子学习平台。我们将与那些有年轻父亲生活经验和/或与年轻父亲一起工作的人合作开发，共同为电子学习平台创造创新的互动内容，这将具有双重目的。首先，该平台将通过教育和增强多机构专业人员的能力来解决国家培训差距，这些专业人员的职责是支持家庭，提供负担得起的工具和知识，以支持年轻父亲，并采用基于证据的、包容父亲的支持方法。其次，它将以播客和视频为特色，提供年轻父亲与多机构专业人员之间具有教育意义和信息丰富的对话，旨在为年轻男性提供育儿方面的支持，并在复杂的支持系统中导航。投资DigiDAD的首要目标是建立一种独特的数字服务，通过研究商业化确保其长期可持续性。为了确保DigiDAD推广证据基础，在电子学习平台上呈现的内容将由两个基于研究的活动来支持。这包括1)扩展和巩固关于年轻父亲和父亲包容实践的定性纵向和国际证据，2)在林肯大学建立一个名为“父亲和家庭研究创新中心”（CIFFR）的国际研究中心。将编写一份关于包容父亲做法的国际文献综述，为专业人员制定一个定义、一个新的概念框架和核心能力，以推进支持父亲的理论和实践。该中心将协助建立由研究人员和专家组成的国际联盟，以加强和扩大证据基础，并确保通过推广DigiDAD及其内容的适当途径产生影响。在从奖学金头四年的创新中学习的基础上，预计这些活动将以意想不到的方式实现更广泛的目标，即在实践和对年轻父亲的社会政策反应中煽动激进的理论转变，从而反映民主原则和同情和关心他人的话语。

This unique qualitative longitudinal impact and innovation project builds on the dynamic qualitative longitudinal evidence base about young fatherhood and father-inclusive practice established through the Following Young Fathers Further study (Tarrant, 2020-24). It does so by establishing novel and innovative mechanisms for knowledge exchange that are designed to increase the parenting capabilities of young fathers and improve professional support cultures. Young fathers (aged 25 and under) continue to be some of the most marginalised and misrepresented populations and are subject to continued stigma and vilification in policy and practice. Where young men have been described as absent and feckless, and gendered professional cultures and environments operate to sideline them, the Following Young Fathers Further research has generated compelling evidence to the contrary. To date, the study has highlighted the transformative potential of young fatherhood on the lifecourses of young men, as well as the value of facilitating participatory approaches through research that directly involve them in innovative solutions that involve training them in advocacy. This research demonstrates that the promotion of compassionate, father-inclusive support among multi-agency professionals, alongside investment in young fathers as advocates for themselves and others, is a powerful approach to addressing their marginalisation, by promoting new, positive visions of them.Building on this evidence and involving young fathers and professionals as advocates and champions, this project will facilitate the co-creation and development of a unique innovation; a digital e-learning platform called DigiDAD. Developed in partnership with those with lived experience of either being, and/or working with, young fathers, we will co-create innovative, interactive content for the e-learning platform that will serve a dual-purpose. First, the platform will address national training gaps by educating and empowering multi-agency professionals with a remit to support families, providing affordable access to the tools and knowledge required to support young fathers and to evidence-based, father-inclusive approaches to support. Second, it will feature podcasts and videos with educational and informative conversations between young fathers and multi-agency professionals, that are designed to support young men with their parenting and to navigate complex support systems. An overarching aim of investing in DigiDAD is to establish a unique digital service offer whose sustainability is ensured longer-term through research commercialisation. To ensure that DigiDAD promotes the evidence base, the content presented on the e-learning platform will be supported by two, research-based activities. This includes 1) extending and consolidating qualitative longitudinal and international evidence on young fatherhood and father-inclusive practice and 2) growing an international research centre called the Centre for Innovations in Fatherhood and Family Research (CIFFR) at the University of Lincoln. An international literature review will be produced about father-inclusive practice to develop a definition, a new conceptual framework and core competencies for professionals, to advance theory and practice in the support of fathers. The Centre will aid in building international coalitions of researchers and experts to enhance and extend the evidence base and ensure appropriate pathways to impact, through the promotion of DigiDAD and its content. Building on the learning from the innovations of the first four years of the Fellowship, it is anticipated that these activities will deliver in unanticipated ways on the broader aim of instigating radical theoretical shifts in practice and social policy responses to young fathers so that they reflect democratic principles and discourses of compassion and concern for others.