Current Projects
Adolescent Vulnerability and Resilience Research
Young and Resilient is working with World Vision South Asia and Pacific region to collate evidence on what is driving vulnerability for young people, what helps them navigate challenging conditions and what they want from policy makers and programmers.
AI, Equity and the Future of Learning
A collaboration with the GHD Foundation and Learning Creates Australia. This project asks a clear question: how can AI-enabled learning expand learning opportunity rather than deepen divides?
Child-centred evidence to drive meaningful social change for children
In Australia and the Pacific, children under 18 face increasingly uncertain futures, negatively impacting their capacity to claim their rights (UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) OHCHR 1989). However, there is a shortage of robust, child-centred research on cross-cutting child rights issues to drive effective, evidence-based systemic change initiatives in Australia and the Pacific.
COR Sandbox: Sandboxing and Standardising Child Online Redress
In a partnership between Y&R, Smile of the Child (Greece), the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and University College Dublin (Ireland), COR Sandbox is an international project that brings young people, online service providers, regulators and researchers together to explore fair and effective responses when children experience online harm. The project aims to ensure reporting, complaints and resolution processes are designed with children, not just for them.
Decolonising digital design: Towards safe and inclusive digital experiences for children and young people
This project will explore how we can decolonise digital design to foster an inclusive, just and safe internet that empowers, values, and represents diverse children and young people.
Examining Youth Digital Wellbeing in Australia and the Philippines
This project examines young people’s experiences of digital health interventions across Australia and the Philippines. By working closely with professional stakeholders and young people in each country, the project will co-design and co-develop targeted public health messaging, practitioner guidance and support as well as policy frameworks that enable youth health and wellbeing.
From Participation to Accountability in Health Care for young people
This project partners with young people in NSW to investigate what accountability in health means and to develop youth-centred evidence and mechanisms to support constructive change.
New Possibilities: Young People and Democratic Renewal
This project examines the way student leadership, organisation and participation occurs across online and offline spaces, shaping Australia’s political and democratic culture, during a time of global, social and political change.
The Development of Global Child and Adolescent-Centred Nutrition Indicators (CAN_I)
The overarching 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. The collection of indicator data will take place via a global digital platform.
The Digital Experiences of Australian Youth
A collaboration with the Telstra Foundation to establish a national baseline of young Australians’ perceptions and experiences of AI and identify how to support its safe and productive use.
Youth Voices on AI: Shaping a Safer Digital Future
This project uses generative AI to engage children and young people in shaping the design, implementation and evaluation of generative AI technologies, to help keep them safe from digital harms, including online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA).