Youth Research Collective
The Youth Research Collective’s research, teaching and engagement projects are informed by a holistic approach to young people’s lives in a context of social, economic, political, and environmental change.
The Youth Research Collective includes a focus on research in formal and informal settings and investigates a broad range of interconnected issues relating to education, youth transitions, wellbeing, employment, justice, home, digital technologies, citizenship, and rurality.
The Collective continues the tradition in youth research established three decades ago by members of the Youth Research Centre at the University of Melbourne. It seeks to position young people as active contributors within research endeavours, using strengths-based approaches to engage with young people’s views and experiences. Members of the Youth Research Collective uses innovative research methodologies and, where possible, incorporates both qualitative and quantitative methods to explore and understand young people’s lives. The Collective has expertise in longitudinal, qualitative and quantitative research techniques.
Staff
Read about current and honorary staff at the Youth Research Collective. Please note names are listed in alphabetical order (by last name).
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Natalie Calleja Natalie Calleja has worked on a variety of research projects that aim to examine how education can meaningfully engage with young people. She is a postgraduate researcher at the Youth Research Collective, interested in thinking with young people about what sociomaterial interactions are shaping who they are becoming and their feelings of belonging. Natalie uses intersectionality, equity, and social change as critical lenses to consider how education can meaningfully engage with young people. She also teaches subjects at the Faculty of Education that examine sociology in education, national and global education programs and policies, and student wellbeing.Dave Camilleri Dave Camilleri is a Teaching Specialist and researcher at The University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Education. He has worked with adolescents in a variety of contexts for the past 18 years. Despite leaving formal education early at 16, he worked as a secondary school teacher before completing a PhD investigating the relationships between engagement, creative ability, and classroom culture with a particular focus on high ability students who are disengaged from regular schooling. He was awarded the Dr Lawrie Shears Doctoral Scholarship in 2016 for outstanding PhD research. Dave’s current research looks at wellbeing and creativity in young people.Jenny Chesters Jenny Chesters is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education. Her research interests include inequality in educational attainment and transitions between education and employment throughout the life course. Her publications include peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters reporting the results of quantitative data analysis. Her teaching includes research methodologies, and she coordinates the capstone projects of Master of Education students. Jenny is a member of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) and a member of the International Sociological Association (ISA).Hernan Cuervo Hernan Cuervo is a Professor in the Faculty of Education. His research interests are in the fields of sociology of youth, rural sociology, rural education and theory of justice. He is a Chief Investigator in the ARC projects “Life Patterns” and “Securing the Next Generation in Farming Careers”. He is currently the Academic Leader of the Youth Research Collective (YRC) academic group; and previously he was Associate Dean (Diversity & Inclusion, FoE). He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Youth Studies (2019-2022, Springer). Hernan is a co-editor of the book series 'Perspective on Children and Young People' (Springer) and an Associate Editor of The Australian Educational Researcher and the Australian and International Journal of Rural Education.Anne Farrelly Anne Farrelly has worked as a researcher on a range of local, national and international projects developing wellbeing, respectful relationships and child safety curriculum, training educators in program delivery and evaluating implementation of trauma informed and gender-based violence prevention programs. Her research interests include critically reflecting on the work of practitioners across a range of professions in supporting children and young people’s right to agency and safety. Her teaching at the Faculty of Education reflects these interests exploring the conceptualisation of childhood, the ethics of family and gender and supporting pre-service teachers in critically reflecting on practice to support inclusion for all young people within education. Jun (Eric) Fu Jun (Eric) Fu is a Senior Research Fellow at the Youth Research Collective. His research interests include digital citizenship, young people, media and digital literacy education, education mobility and international students. He also teaches several breadth subjects (undergraduate level) and subjects for Master students at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education.Melyssa Fuqua Melyssa Fuqua is a Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her fellowship research explores how sporting clubs influence aspiration and participation of rural youth in tertiary education and work, and the clubs’ role in their wider community. Originally from Massachusetts, Melyssa was a P-12 teacher in rural Victoria for a decade before returning to higher education and research. She is a manager of the Rural Education Research Student Network connecting research students, early-career researchers, and experienced scholars; and hosts the annual International Emerging Rural Scholars Summit. Melyssa is on the editorial team of the Australian and International Journal of Rural Education.Annie Gowing Annie Gowing coordinates the Master of Education program at The University of Melbourne and leads the Student Wellbeing Specialisation within that course. The ways in which student wellbeing is understood, implemented, monitored and evaluated in schools is a longstanding practice, policy and research focus and her PhD study was on school connectedness which, along with school climate, the teacher-student relationship, and the concepts of compassion and care in the school context and their inter-cultural understandings, are her key research interests.Natalie Ann Hendry Natalie Ann Hendry is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education. Natalie investigates the relationships between digital media, health and education, focusing on youth, mental health, sexuality and finance. As a critical scholar, Natalie positions her work within media and communication studies, cultural studies, critical health, and sociology, through diverse methodologies including digital ethnography, group workshops and creative methods. In 2021, Natalie published her first book, tumblr, co-authored with Katrin Tiidenberg and Crystal Abidin. Before undertaking her PhD, Natalie was a teacher and consultant, with experience in community, secondary (health and humanities) and youth hospital-based education settings.Quentin Maire Quentin Maire is a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education working on the ARC-funded Life Patterns project. Quentin is a sociologist researching schooling, education and young people, with a particular focus on social inequalities. He explores the role of credentials, curriculum, and social class in the making of youth inequality. He is a comparativist, uses quantitative and qualitative methods, and seeks to historicise contemporary social phenomena.Charlotte McPherson Charlotte McPherson joined the Youth Research Collective as a McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2023. Her postdoctoral research explores working-class young people’s navigations of employment opportunities and relationships to community in rural areas of Victoria and Scotland. Charlotte is a qualitative youth scholar interested in understanding the lives of young people from their perspective. Her research expertise lies in how young people’s lives are shaped by social class and social change, and she is interested in young people’s relationships with place and sense of social justice. Charlotte serves on the editorial team for the Journal of Youth Studies.Suzanne Rice Suzanne Rice is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education. She has been a researcher at the University of Melbourne since 2008. She has three research foci: supporting school students’ development of career knowledge and skills through better careers provision, building a better teacher workforce through understanding how to attract and retain excellent people in teaching, and ensuring national testing programs benefit students and teachers by reducing negative impacts. She has been widely published in prestigious journals such as Teachers and Teaching and Journal of Education Policy, and has led research projects worth over $4 million.Maddison Sideris Maddison Sideris is a PhD Candidate at the University of Melbourne, research assistant for the Life Patterns project and sessional tutor at Deakin University. Her PhD research explores how Australian youth are negotiating their intimate relationships in their transition to adulthood through digital practices and COVID-19. She completed her Bachelor of Arts (Honours)/Laws in 2021 and was awarded First Class Honours for her thesis exploring how young women construct their identities on Instagram.Michelle Walter Michelle Walter is a teaching specialist and lecturer in higher education at the Faculty of Education and centre for the Study of Higher Education at the university of Melbourne. She is a lived experience researcher focusing on feminism, mental illness, disability, help-seeking, stigma and the mental health of tertiary students. She is particularly interested in developing teaching methods to support tertiary student mental health and arts based, creative research methodologies with a specific focus on Autoethnography as a feminist research methodology.Nadishka Weerasuriya Nadishka Weerasuriya is a PhD student, academic tutor and research assistant for the Life Patterns project. Her PhD examines the ways in which transnational young people negotiate identity and belonging in their everyday lives between cultures, looking specifically at the role of language in these processes. She is generally interested in research around the recognition and representation of young people from marginalised and/or peripheral social groups and communities. Nadishka also tutors in several breadth subjects, as well as for a range of subjects in the Master of Education.Johanna Wyn Johanna Wyn is a Redmond Barry Professor, Faculty of Education. Johanna is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia and the Academy of Social Sciences, UK. She leads the ARC funded Life Patterns longitudinal research program. Her research explores how young people navigate their lives in a changing world, with a focus on the areas of transition, gender, well-being and inequality. Wyn’s work recognises that young people, as active citizens and cultural creators, shape and contest the nature of youth. Rosie Yasmin Rosie Yasmin is a lecturer in the Youth Research Collective. Her research interests include education, wellbeing, social justice, capability and rights-based approaches, resilience, human rights, international development, gender, third sector, and mixed-methods and participatory research methodologies. She coordinates and teaches several Master level subjects at the Faculty of Education. She also taught Master level subjects at the School of Social & Political Sciences (SSPS), Faculty of Arts and breadth subjects (undergraduate level). She worked in academia in Bangladesh and in international NGOs.Hanyue Zhong Hanyue Zhong is a PhD candidate. Her research interest is around rural education, education policy, and educational equity. Her PhD project is to investigate the enactment of education modernization policy in Chinese rural schools. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2166-2268 -
Helen Cahill Helen Cahill is an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of education at the University of Melbourne.Bronwyn Davies Bronwyn Davies is an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of education at the University of Melbourne.
Research ProjectsPlease find below a selection of current and recent research projects researchers at the Youth Research Collective have been involved in. |
| Project | Years | Funding Body | Youth Research Collective Staff |
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| Life Patterns | 2021-2026 | Australian Research Council, Discovery Project | Johanna Wyn (Lead Chief Investigator (CI)), Helen Cahill (CI), Hernan Cuervo (CI), Jenny Chesters (CI), Quentin Maire, Eric Fu, Nadishka Weerasuriya, Natalie Calleja, Maddison Sideris. |
| Securing the Next Generation in Farming and Food Careers | 2023-2026 | Australian Research Council, Linkage Project | Hernan Cuervo (Lead CI) |
| The Influence of Rural Youth Sports on Aspiration, Participation, and Belonging in Tertiary Education | 2023-2026 | Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellowship (UoM) | Melyssa Fuqua (Lead CI) |
| Youth Unemployment Experiences in Australia and the UK During Covid-19: Socioeconomic Differences and Geographical Inequalities | 2023-2025 | McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow (UoM) | Charlotte McPherson (Lead CI) |
| Why Rural Teachers Stay | 2023-2024 | Department of Education, Victoria | Hernan Cuervo (Lead CI), Quentin Maire (CI) |
| Social Media + Therapy - exploring young adulthood, psychotherapy, social media care and digital cultures | 2021-2024 | With support from RMIT University Vice Chancellor's Post Doctoral Fellowship and the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne | Natalie Hendry (Lead CI) |
| Education Policy in Practice: European Education Policy and National Systems | 2020-2024 | European Commission's Erasmus+ Program | Stanley Koh (CI) |
| Trade Union Training: Reshaping the Australian Industrial Landscape | 2019-2023 | Australian research Council, Linkage Project | Mary Leahy (Lead CI) |
| Increasing the diversity of Australia’s teaching workforce | 2023 | Jack Keating Foundation Policy Paper Scholarship | Suzanne Rice (Lead CI) |
| Developing students’ life and career skills for successful workplace entry | 2021-2023 | National Careers Institute | Suzanne Rice (CI), Stanley Koh (CI) |
| Health, teachers and influencer pedagogies | 2020-2024 | Natalie Hendry (CI) | |
| Our (photo)Voice: Children and Young People’s Joint Action Research on Student Wellbeing for All | 2022-2023 | SEAMEO-Australia Education | Annie Gowing (CI) |
| Digital citizenship practices of Chinese international students in Melbourne | 2023 | University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grant | Eric Fu (Lead CI) |
| Education for a good life: Rethinking education and work transition | 2023 | Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne Seeds | Faculty of Education Seed Funding Scheme, University of Melbourne Eric Fu (Lead CI), Quentin Maire (CI) |
| Respectful Relationships Education in Secondary Schools | 2020-2023 | Department of Education, Victoria | Helen Cahill (Lead CI), Anne Farrelly (CI) |
| A social network analysis and implementation study of an intervention designed to advance social and emotion learning and respectful relationships in secondary schools | 2020-2023 | Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) | Helen Cahill (Lead CI), Anne Farrelly, Natalie Calleja |
| Experiences of Higher Education for Regional, Rural and Remote Youth in a Metropolitan University | 2022-2023 | Faculty of Education Seed Funding Scheme, University of Melbourne | Hernan Cuervo (Lead CI), Quentin Maire (CI), Melyssa Fuqua (CI), Nadishka Weerasuriya |
| BMX for Life - Social and mental wellbeing and Creativity in BMX riders | 2022 | Faculty of Education Seed Funding Scheme, University of Melbourne | Dave Camillieri (Lead CI) |
| Young adult investors, digital finance cultures & uncertainty | 2021-2022 | With support from RMIT University Vice Chancellor's Post Doctoral Fellowship and Western Sydney University | Natalie Hendry (Lead CI) |
| A better time abroad: rethinking the possibilities of care for promoting international students’ well-being | 2021-2022 | Faculty of Education (UoM) | Eric Fu (CI), Annie Gowing (CI) |
| Everyday Citizenship and Belonging of Mobile Chinese Students in Melbourne and Beijing | 2021 | Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Melbourne | Eric Fu (Lead CI) |
| The Learner’s Journey | 2020-2021 | Foundation for Young Australians | Suzanne Rice (CI) |
| Analysis of Experience and Outcomes of Connect With Respect Violence Prevention Programme in Countries in Eastern and Southern Africa and Asia-Pacific Regions | 2020-2021 | UNICEF | Helen Cahill (Lead CI), Anne Farrelly (CI) |
Publications
Please find below a selection of books, journal articles, book chapters, and research reports authored by staff members at the Youth Research Collective.
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Chesters, J. (Ed.). (2024). Research Handbook on Transitions into Adulthood. Edward Elgar.
Wyn, J., Cahill, H., Cuervo, H. (Eds.). (2024). Handbook of Children and Youth Studies. 2nd edition. Springer.
White, S., Downey, J., Fuqua, M. (Eds). (2024). Sharing Leadership Stories in Rural Education: Leading Rurally across Australia and the United States. Springer.
Fu, J. (2021). Digital Citizenship in China: Everyday Online Practices of Chinese Young People. Springer.
Harris, A., Cuervo, H., Wyn, J. (2021). Thinking about belonging in youth studies. Springer.
Maire, Q. (2021). Credential Market: Mass Schooling, Academic Power and the International Baccalaureate Diploma. Springer.
Roberts, P. & Fuqua, M. (Eds.). (2021). Ruraling Education Research: Connections between Rurality and the Disciplines of Educational Research. Springer.
Tiidenberg, K., Hendry, N. & Abidin, C. (2021). Tumblr. Polity.
Wyn, J., Cahill, H., Woodman, D., Cuervo, H., Leccardi, C., Chesters, J. (2020). Youth and the new adulthood. Springer.
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Cahill, H., Dadvand, B., Suryani, A., & Farrelly, A. (2023). A student-centric evaluation of a program addressing prevention of gender-based violence in three African countries. International journal of environmental research and public health, 20(15), 6498.
Chesters, J. (2023). Gender attitudes and occupational aspirations in Germany: Are young men prepared for the jobs of the future? Work, Employment and Society, 37(3), 571-587.
Cuervo, H. (2023). Theorizing Cultural (Mis)recognition in Rural School Staffing: Implementing a Social Justice Frame to Understand Challenges to Attract Rural Teachers. The Rural Educator, 44(1), 28-39. DOI: 10.55533/2643-9662.1308
Cuervo, H., Maire, Q., Cook, J., Wyn, J. (2023). Liminality, COVID‐19 and the long crisis of young adults' employment. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 58(3), 457-728. DOI: 10.1002/ajs4.268
Fu, J. (2023) Rethinking education and work relationships in youth transition: an alternative metaphor. Journal of Youth Studies, 1-18. DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2023.2228726
Fu, J., Li, M. (2022) Citizenship Practices of Chinese Students on an Australian Campus: a Case Study. Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 5, 197–215. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-022-00078-4
Guenther, J., Fuqua, M., Ledger, S., Davie, S., Cuervo, H., Lasselle, L., & Downes, N. (2023). The Perennials and Trends of Rural Education: Discourses that Shape Research and Practice. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 1–29.
Maire, Q. (2023) Towards an historical sociology of global citizenship education policy in Australia. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 1-19. DOI: 10.1080/03057925.2023.2212108
Maire, Q. & Ho, C. (2023) Cultural capital on the move: ethnic and class distinctions in Asian-Australian academic achievement. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 1-24. DOI: 10.1080/09620214.2023.2258387
McPherson, C. (2023) Young and hungry in the United Kingdom: a qualitative study of youth food insecurity in Edinburgh and London. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 31(1): 45-62.
Rice, S., Watt, H.M.G., Richardson, P. & Crebbin, S. (2023). Career motivations and interest in teaching of tertiary students taking maths and science subjects. Research Papers in Education. 1-24. DOI: 0.1080/02671522.2023.2244972
Albury, K., & Hendry, N. A. (2022). Information, influence, ritual, participation: Defining digital sexual health. Journal of Sociology, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833221136579
Calleja, N. (2022). Intersectionality and processes of belonging: thinking critically about sociomaterial entanglements with the voices of upper-primary school-aged young people in youth research. Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 5(4). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-022-00088-2
Dowley, M. & Rice, S. (2022). Comparing student motivations for and emotional responses to national standardised tests and internal school tests: The devil in the detail. Australian Journal of Education, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/00049441211061889
Hendry, N. A., Hartung, C., & Welch, R. (2022). Health education, social media, and tensions of authenticity in the ‘influencer pedagogy’ of health influencer Ashy Bines. Learning, Media and Technology, 47(4), 427–439.
Leahy, M. (2022). Person-centred qualifications: vocational education and training for the aged care and disability services sectors in Australia. Journal of Education and Work, 35(2), 181-194
Rice, S., Leahy, M. & Klatt, G. (2022). Navigating the matrix: career development and the responsibilisation of employability in Australia. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 50(4), 557-576.
Wyn, J. (2022). Young People’s Mental Health. Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 5: 167–172.
Kern, M. L., Cahill, H., Morrish, L., Farrelly, A., Shlezinger, K., & Jach, H. (2021). The responsibility of knowledge: Identifying and reporting students with evidence of psychological distress in large-scale school-based studies. Research Ethics, 17(2), 193-216.
McPherson, C. (2021) Between the rhetoric of employability and the reality of un(der)employment: NEET policy rhetoric in the UK and Scotland. Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 4, 135-152.
Polesel, J., Gillis, S., Suryani, A., Leahy, M. & Koh, S. (2021). The Australian Senior Certificates: after 50 years of reforms. The Australian Educational Researcher 48 (3), 565-584
Hendry, N. A. (2020). Young women’s mental illness and (in-)visible social media practices of control and emotional recognition. Social Media + Society, 6(4), 1–10.
Gowing, A. (2019). Peer-peer relationships: A key factor in enhancing school connectedness and belonging. Educational & Child Psychology, 36(2), 64-77.
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Cuervo, H. (2024). Researching Relationships Between Rural Education, Space and Social Justice. In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Oxford University Press.
Hendry, N. (2024). Youth Health and Wellbeing in Digital Cultures. In: Handbook of Children and Youth Studies, 1-14. Springer.
Cuervo, H. (2023). Social Justice and Young People: Thinking About Distribution, Recognition, and Participation in Youth Studies. In: Handbook of Children and Youth Studies, pp. 1-15. Springer.
Colla, R., Gowing, A., Molloy Murphy, A., & Ryan, T. (2023) Designing Education for Wellbeing and Connection in a COVID Impacted World. In: The Education Turn: Rethinking the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Springer.
Maire, Q. (2023). Bourdieu and the Sociology of Educational Qualifications. In: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Bourdieu and Educational Research. Bloomsbury.
Yasmin R. (2023). The ‘reflexive rapport’ in a participatory ethnography: Research with children living in a Bangladeshi slum. In: Ethnographic Research in Social Sciences. Routledge.
Cahill, H., Dadvand, B., & Gowing, A. (2021). Taking a wellbeing-centric approach to school reform. In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Oxford University Press.
Fuqua, M. (2021). Pathways, principals, and place. In: Ruraling Education Research: Connections between Rurality and the Disciplines of Educational Research. Springer.
McPherson, C. (2019). Economically, culturally and politically disadvantaged: Perspectives on, and experiences of, social justice among working-class youth in mainland Scotland’s smallest council area through the lens of Nancy Fraser. In: Human Rights for Children and Youth, pp.193-220. Emerald.
Wyn, J. (2021). Youth Studies. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. OUP.
Yasmin R. & Dadvand B. (2019). Education, Voice and Empowerment: Learning with and from Children in Poverty. In: Philosophy and Child Poverty (pp. 145-161). Philosophy and Poverty. Springer.
Cahill, H. & Walter, M. (2017). Endurance and Ignorance: the mental health epidemic. In: Under the Pump: the pressures on young Australians, pp.124-134. John Cain Foundation.
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Bass, L., Chesters, J. & Maire, Q. (2024). Reflections on living through the pandemic: Young adult Australians' experiences of the social and economic changes of 2020-2022. Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne. https://education.unimelb.edu.au/life-patterns/reports-and-publications/research-reports
Cahill, H., Lusher, D., Farrelly, A., Calleja, N., Wang, P., & Hassani, A. (2023). A social network analysis and implementation study of an intervention designed to advance social and emotional learning and respectful relationships in secondary schools (Research report, 07/2023). ANROWS.
Cook, J., Cahill, H., Wyn, J. & Fu, E. (2023). Gen Y: managing the present and making sense of the future. Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne. https://education.unimelb.edu.au/life-patterns/reports-and-publications/research-reports
Cuervo, H., Maire, Q., Fuqua, M., and Weerasuriya, N. (2023). Experiences of higher education for regional, rural, and remote youth in a metropolitan university. Facultyl of Education, Melbourne.
Fu, E. & Chesters, J. (2023). Should I or Shouldn’t I? Year 11 students’ intentions for post-school study. Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne. https://education.unimelb.edu.au/life-patterns/reports-and-publications/research-reports
Maire, M., Weerasuriya, N. & Chesters, J. (2023). Too young to vote but not too young to care: Year 11 students’ wellbeing and political voice Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne. https://education.unimelb.edu.au/life-patterns/reports-and-publications/research-reports
Rice, S., Garner, A. & Graham, L. (2023). Seeing ourselves at school: Increasing the diversity of Australia’s teaching workforce. University of Melbourne. Available at: Report #7- Seeing Ourselves at School (unimelb.edu.au)
McLean Davies, L., Cahill, H., Truman, S. E., Calleja, N., Herrington, M., & Potter, T. (2022). Teaching ‘consent’ in secondary school English (No. 1). Literary Education Lab, Melbourne Graduate School of Education. https://literaryeducationlab.org/wp-content/uploads/MGSE-consent-report.pdf
Camilleri, D. J. (2021). An investigation into the relationship between the engagement, creative ability, and classroom culture within secondary schooling. PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne.
Camilleri, D (2021) Reimagining Dis/engagement and the Development of Ability: A Relational Approach to Engagement. Vision Magazine, Volume 32, no. 1. Victorian Association for Gifted and Talented Children.
Masters Programs
The Youth Research Collective contributes to the Faculty of Education's world-renowned Master of Teaching program and the new Master of Education, which includes nine specialisation options.
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Master of Teaching
Discover the unique and innovative Master of Teaching curriculum, which combines theory and practice to offer powerful insights into children and young people, and how they learn.
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Master of Education
Delve into contemporary education issues, connect with the latest developments in the field, and garner the expertise to move beyond the classroom with a Master of Education.
Undergraduate Studies
The Collective contributes to a range of undergraduate studies, including a suite of breadth subjects on youth, citizenship and identity. Available breadth subjects include:
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Concepts of Childhood
This subject examines the questions raised by this continuing body of research and relates them to current understandings of childhood and to recent changes in policies regarding children in diverse local and international contexts.
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Youth Leading Change
This subject explores young people as change-makers and problem-solvers against a backdrop of social transformation in Australia and globally. It provides students with thinking tools for addressing local and global problems in everyday life and skills for leadership.
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Ethics, Gender and the Family
The family continues to be regarded as a private institution that should be immune to public scrutiny, despite the increasing intervention in the family by public institutions - notably, the law, education, medicine and social services.
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Learning and the Digital Generations
Students are introduced to the complex and emerging relationships between learning and digital communications. Drawing on the idea of digital generations, it enables students to gain an understanding of the ways in which digital communication is integrated into the lives of new generations.
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Youth and Popular Culture
Explore how children and young people construct and reconstruct their sense of selves against the backdrop of pervasive contemporary popular cultures.
Contact us
- yrc-info@unimelb.edu.au
- Phone
- (03) 8344 9633
- Fax
- (03) 8344 9632
- Postal address
- Youth Research Collective, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010
Location
Level 2
100 Leicester Street
Carlton, Victoria, Australia 3010