What type of data do you get if you leave young people talking and walk away? This is a strategy Bronwyn Wood and Dr Brian Ristow critically evaluate in their new article Everyday talk ow.ly/YneV50Lqvhj #socialresearch #methodology

Great to see this fabulous paper out on youth voting and citizenship Philippa Collin and Faith Gordon

A changing world needs arts and social science graduates more than ever – just ask business leaders theconversation.com/a-changing-wor… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Complex education policy for complex times - this special issue on education policy that I edited with Assoc Prof Joanna Higgins is just out now - all articles open access ojs.victoria.ac.nz/pq/article/vie…

Please read our new study where we evaluated effectiveness of a locally developed group intervention, Nae Umeed, in informal urban parts of Dehradun. We found statistically significant improvements in mental health and social participation. Groups work 💪 doi.org/10.1017/gmh.20…

See below an opportunity to register for a new Youth Studies Network in Aotearoa NZ that Janina Suppers and I are hosting - all welcome - see link below:

Great post on how generative AI reduces critical thinking. Full stop.

Mind the gap - in this (open access) commentary I argue that significant 'gaps' still remain in citizenship youth studies that distort our understandings toward elite, White and Global North youth. Thanks Julia Cook Benjamin Hanckel for the invite! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Great paper about the importance of psychosocial help to strengthen mental health in South Asia by Kaaren Mathias 🏔️ 🇮🇳 🇳🇿

Join us for the 1st virtual hui of the Aotearoa New Zealand #YouthStudies Network on 🗓️18th October 2023 at 12pm (NZST). We will get to know each other, learn about our work & have presentations from Ben K. C. Laksana 🌹 and me. DM Bronwyn Wood or me for Zoom Link. Full invite below👇

Letter box tally in Central Wellington in final week. Time to have a conversation about political party funding??

Join us tomorrow, 🗓️18th October at 12pm (NZST) for our first Aotearoa New Zealand #YouthStudies Network virtual hui. See info below 👇

The potential for group therapy for youth mental health is an effective model NZ needs to trial - as research by Kaaren Mathias 🏔️ 🇮🇳 🇳🇿 shows

Lovely to join this Australia-NZ team of researchers to explore what academic resistance looked like during Covid. And we welcome further research ideas on our typologies of resistance:

"The Covid pandemic certainly led to forms of resistance by academics – but these were also at times difficult to see." New blog post from Bronwyn Wood, Rosalyn (Ros) Black and Kerry Garrard about #precarity and #resistance in #highereducation. …achinginhighereducation.wordpress.com/2024/04/07/wha…

Key education policy decisions in the early 2000s have not produced the desired results. But broad bipartisan agreement is now needed to give children and teachers the greatest chance of success, write Bronwyn Wood + Taylor Hughson. theconversation.com/nz-education-s…

New paper about Co-design with Young People in Youth Work & Youth Studies. 📑 ✍ A pleasure to write this with Joel McGregor & Bronwyn Wood FREE ACCESS 👇 Thank you special issue editors Sinead Gormally, Dr Frances Howard & Prof Mike Seal rdcu.be/dFy9P

The call for sessions for the V ISA Forum of Sociology 2025 in Rabat, Morocco 🇲🇦 opens up! Mark your calendars 📷 for May 2nd to submit your RC/WG/TG session proposals online. #ISAforum25

How can we live together with difference? In this article I explore the significant role that teachers can play in creating conditions for inclusive classrooms where democracy can be lived and learned - open access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…