Research shows that the drivers of resilience are complex and thus require holistic, socio-ecological responses. Underpinned by interdisciplinary approaches and youth-centred, participatory methods, the Young and Resilient Research Centre (incorporating the Intergener8 Living Lab) generates evidence-based policy and practice outcomes that leverage the digital to strengthen the resilience of young people and their communities.

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Wellbeing Health and Youth Matters Project Survey
The Wellbeing Health and Youth Matters Project survey invites young people 12-24 years to share their views, experience and interest in young people's involvement in health research, policy and services.
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Dr Benjamin Hanckel awarded DECRA!
We would like to congratulate Dr Benjamin Hankel, our VC Fellow, on being awarded a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)! Ben's project will be examining Youth Digital Wellbeing in Australia and the Philippines.
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Role of online engagement and mentoring to support Veterans transition to student life
Y&R Member Dr Anna Denejkina is investigating the role of online engagement and mentoring through Zoom to support Student Veteran’s transition from military life into student life, by creating a peer and external support network in their first year at university.
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The implications of sharing violent mobile phone recordings online
Alex Barwick from ABC Alice Springs interviews Prof Amanda Third, Young & Resilient Research Centre Co-director, regarding sharing video recordings of violent content on social media, after a fight at the local bus interchange between students was uploaded to a Facebook community group. The recordings have since been removed by Facebook for breeching their community standards.
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Ethical Research Involving Children features Youth-Research Toolkit
The Ethical Research Involving Children (ERIC) initiative is featuring our Youth Co-research Toolkit on their library homepage!

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ICA 2024 Pre-conference and Call for papers
We invite postgraduate students, emerging and senior researchers, children and young people who have participated as co-researchers in media and communications research, to attend and contribute their original research, findings, and innovative ideas to our interdisciplinary discussion. This one day preconference will occur in Brisbane on 20th June 2024.
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Resource: Youth Co-research Toolkit for Researchers
This toolkit offers guidance, advice, tips and practical tools to support collaborative co-research partnerships between researchers and young people. The information draws on the experiences and learnings of researchers working in the fields of social and cultural youth studies. However, you can apply the resources in diverse research settings.
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Project: The Development of Global Child and Adolescent-Centred Nutrition_Indicators (CAN_I)
The aim of this project is to collaborate with children and adolescents to co-develop child and adolescent-centred nutrition indicators for implementation in policy and public health programs across the globe.

Study With Us

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Interested in undertaking higher degree research in an innovative and exciting research environment? Young and Resilient fosters excellence in engaged research and scholarship, and offers unique opportunities to think, design and develop solutions to social challenges.. Read more about

Co-Research Toolkit

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Our digital co-research toolkit allows us, and our partners, to generate evidence on phenomena shaping the resilience of young people and their communities to impact policy and practice. These bespoke data-gathering tools are youth-centred and offer creative new ways to undertake co-researches.. Read more about

Our Partners

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At Young and Resilient Research Centre, we pool the strengths of different stakeholders ranging from academic institutions, government bodies, international and local policymakers, private industries, social entrepreneurs, to young community.. Read more about


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