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Y&R publishes its 2025 Annual Report
16 April, 2026: Last year marked another outstanding year for the Young and Resilient Research Centre. See all of the year's events, highlights and achievements in our annual report.
Young people take the lead in online safety research
15 April, 2026: Young Parliamentarians in Liverpool were invited to step into the role of researchers and advocates as part of this year’s 2168 Children’s Parliament program, tackling issues like online safety and cyberbullying.
Interview with Dr Benjamin Hanckel on his new book
March 31, 2026: Y&R Member Dr Ben Hanckel talks about his new book "Researching with young people" and how to put youth-centred project ideas into practice.
National Children's Commissioner Deb Tsobaris launches Hope and Resilience report
February 25, 2026: Members of the Young & Resilient Research Centre (Y&R) gathered recently with a broad range of academics, researchers, students, youth advocates, and professionals working in the youth space to celebrate the launch of the "Hope and Resilience: Young Australians' reflections on hope in a complex world" research report.
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Highlights
Young and Resilient 2025 Annual Report
See all the key highlights, publications, events & activities of Y&R in our 2025 annual report.
African children's rights in relation to the digital environment report
Produced in partnership with the London School of Economics and Political Science, this report documents the key concerns, insights and aspirations of 599 diverse African children, aged 9-18, from 14 countries, who participated in four child-centred consultations between 2019 and 2024
Hope and Resilience report
This report presents the key findings of a project which worked with 1,038 young Australians aged 12 to 19, to investigate their hopes and aspirations for the future in relation to the key domains of technology, employment, finances, education, health, family, relationships and friendships, and the natural environment.
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Co-Research Toolkit
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
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