The “school run” - SATNAV Compass
We have now successfully completed 14 trials within several secondary schools. We are excited to continue these trials and bring new schools on board.
Our next steps are to consolidate information from our extensive process evaluations from our already completed trials.
The early positive impact indicators emerging from the completed trials inspire us to roll out Youth Compass in secondary schools, extending and scaling up across the UK – and internationally.
The 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 for a whole school term, 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, approximately 600 participants aged 11-14 have taken part.
The findings of this work are available on our Articles and academic papers page.
What is the SATNAV project?
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. This is because evidence shows us that rule-breaking takes place when certain individuals find themselves in crime-conducive settings, so for any kind of intervention – we must focus on both people and the settings they spend time in.
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, Founder of SATNAV) and Dr Neema Trivedi-Bateman have developed and co-lead 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.