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Young People and the Climate Crisis

Intergenerational Justice, the Climate Crisis and Young People’s Futures

In the context of the climate crisis, current ideas about intergenerational justice are focussed on contemporary populations of young people, and as yet un-born generations, and the futures that our past and present actions will visit on these generations.
8 September 2022
Geelong

Young People’s Voices and Participation and the Beginnings of ‘Co-Design’

In their recent book – Youth rising?: The politics of youth in the global economy – Mayssoun Sukarieh and Stuart Tannock (2014, p. 143) reflect on the problematic character of young people’s voices and participation in movements against such things as the climate crisis, war, and racism, and their encounters with the institutionalised promise of ‘youth participation’.
10 March 2022
Geelong

Young People’s Mental Health and Well-being in the Pandemic

Throughout the different waves and stages and responses to the pandemic there has been much commentary about the impacts of the crisis on the health and well-being of young people, including from agencies such as the National Youth Commission, YACVic and Mission Australia.
9 March 2022
Geelong

Aspiration and Young People’s Sense of their Futures in the Time of COVID

8 March 2022
Geelong

Introduction: Young People’s Aspirations, Health and Well-being and Voices in Geelong During the COVID-19 Pandemic

In a series of blogs we will provide an outline of three of the key themes that have emerged during the first year (2021) of a three (3) year project that we are conducting in Geelong, Victoria’s (AUSTRALIA) second largest city.
8 March 2022
Inner North of Melbourne

COVID-19 and young people’s ‘Future Presents’: lockdown stories from the Anthropocene

31 January 2022
Young People and the Climate Crisis

School Strikes for Climate: Young People, Dissent and Collective Identities in/for the Anthropocene

23 January 2022
Inner North of Melbourne

Ash’s Story

21 October 2021
Geelong

COVID, Lockdowns and Young People’s Mental Health and Well-being: A Perspective From Geelong

6 October 2021
Young People and the Climate Crisis

Blah, Blah, Blah: Young People, the Climate Crisis, Hope and the ‘Dithering’ of Adults

5 October 2021
Young People and Digital Disruption

Young People as Biocultural Creatures: Re-imagining Sociologies of Young People’s Well-being

5 October 2021
Inner North of Melbourne

Bella’s Story

4 October 2021
Inner North of Melbourne

Connor’s Story

4 October 2021
Inner North of Melbourne

Carmen’s Story

4 October 2021
Inner North of Melbourne

Rosie’s Story

4 October 2021

‘Being young’, ‘living well’, in/beyond the pandemic

We (Peter Kelly, Seth Brown and James Goring) have just had a chapter published in a new international collection - Wellbeing: Global Policies and Perspectives, Insights from Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond - edited by Annelies Kamp, Cheryl Brown, Trish McMenamin, and Veronica O’Toole. The chapter is titled ‘Being young’, ‘living well’, in/beyond the pandemic: Exploring the entanglements between COVID-19, the Anthropocene and young people’s wellbeing.

The Young People’s Sustainable Futures Lab (YPSFL) is a collaborative research lab that brings together researchers and other stakeholders to co-design young people’s sustainable futures in times of crisis and disruption. The starting point for YPSFL is situated in our concern with, and for, young people’s well-being, and their education, training and employment pathways in these unfolding crises.

We acknowledge the First Peoples who are the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia, and we celebrate their enduring connections to Country, knowledge and stories. We acknowledge that these lands were stolen, and that sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.

The artwork for the YPSF Lab logo is being used with the permission of the author Seth Brown, ‘Water 2’ Water Series, 2009, Relief Print. Banner Image: Jay Wennington via ‘Unsplash’.

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