The Young Lives and Times project is one of the Timescapes qualitative longitudinal studies. This study qualitatively follows a birth cohort of 29 young people from age 13 to age 18. Participants were recruited in 2006 via focus groups held in schools and youth clubs in an industrial city in the north of England. Three waves of fieldwork were conducted over a four year period to explore the young people's unfolding personal and family relationships over time, and their changing educational aspirations and achievements. This project also originally tracked a subsidiary sample population called "Following Fathers," which is now a separate Timescapes project known as "Following Young Fathers."