Relational working in practice: early reflections from the u'Good Research Programme

The u’GOOD Research Programme (hereafter u’GOOD) is a collaborative endeavour over five years between Fondation Botnar, South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF), and South Africa’s Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) to understand the value of employing Relational Wellbeing (RWB) to study, respond to, and improve the wellbeing of young people in the Global South. Through the funding of 23 single and multi-country research projects across nine countries, u’GOOD encourages researchers to adopt a relational wellbeing approach at the intersection of young people’s lives in relation to their livelihoods, mental health, digitalization and climate change, to advance theory and test it conceptually and empirically. The programme is thus a multilateral, multi-partner, and multi-year research programme seeking to accelerate research into relational wellbeing and young people.