COVID-19 Recovery Scenario’s for Young People in Melbourne’s Inner North

The Project

This scenario planning project developed research informed scenarios of possible futures (Chaotic, Unsustainable, and Sustainable Futures) for young people in Melbourne’s inner north in 2025. This project was a partnership with the Inner Northern Local Learning and Employment Network.

The scenarios of possible futures are summarised here, and a full account of these ‘future stories’ is presented in the Project report.

Outcomes

The Summary and Full Reports  of the COVID-19 Recovery Scenarios for Young People in Melbourne’s Inner North can be downloaded here.

• Download Report Summary
• Download Full Report

The Summary report also includes a brief outline of a project proposal to develop a cohort of Youth Activists for Sustainable Futures, and a micro-credential in Leadership for Sustainable Futures.

The Full report can be cited as follows: Brown, S., Goring J. and Kelly, P. (2021) COVID-19 Recovery Scenarios for Young People in Melbourne’s Inner North, UNEVOC@RMIT, Melbourne

Publications:

• ‘Young People’s Presents and Futures, and the Moral Obligation to be Enterprising and Aspirational in Times of Crisis’ by Goring, Kelly, Carbajo Padilla and Brown (2023) in Futures
• ‘Young people and post-pandemic futures: scenario planning as a radical politics of hope’ by Kelly, Brown and Goring (2021) in Qualitative Research Journal
• ‘COVID-19 and young people’s ‘Future Presents’: lockdown stories from the Anthropocene’ by Kelly, Brown and Goring (2021) in Journal of Youth Studies
• ‘Climate change, mental health services, a better education system: what marginalised young people told us needs to be fixed’ in The Conversation
• ”Being young’, ‘living well’, in/beyond the pandemic: Exploring the entanglements between COVID-19, the Anthropocene and young people’s wellbeing’ in Wellbeing: global policies and perspectives : insights from Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond

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