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 through focus groups conducted in schools and youth clubs in an industrial city in northern England. Three waves of fieldwork were conducted over a four-year period to explore young people's evolving personal and family relationships 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."