Books
Future Right Now
New Possibilities Collective
Written by more than 40 young people in collaboration with Y&R's New Possibilities project, Future Right Now is a captivating pictorial book which reflects the art, ideas and passion of the Australian youth climate movement. The book was awarded runner up in the 2026 CHASS Prize for Distinctive Works in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
Youth Studies in Australia and the Climate Crisis: Time for Action
Philippa Collin, Judith Bessant, Michelle Catanzaro
This special issue of the Journal of Applied Youth Studies brings together youth-centred research from Australia on young people's engagement with the climate crisis. Contributors explore First Nations knowledge, climate anxiety, lowering the voting age and youth participation in UN processes, and the editors call for climate policy centred on young people and climate justice.
Researching with Young People: An Introduction to Youth-Centred Research Methods
Frances Howard, Benjamin Hanckel, Karenza Moore, Sophie Atherton, Janina Suppers
Undertaking research with young people is an expanding approach within education, sociology, criminology, politics, youth work and psychology. Researching with Young People: An Introduction to Youth-Centred Research Methods introduces existing research methods such as interviews, focus groups, ethnography and creative methods, as well as covering newer methods including place-based methods, digital methods, co-production and co-authorship.
Youth Digital Health and Online Platforms: Dialogue with Peers on Reddit
Martyna Gliniecka
Youth Digital Health and Online Platforms focuses on young people’s use of the digital platform Reddit for health. Drawing upon dialogism theory, the book explores how young people produce a youth-led discourse of youth digital health, different from the adult-led framing represented in youth digital health research, policy, and service delivery.
Research Handbook on the Sociology of Youth
Judith Bessant, Philippa Collin, Patrick O'Keeffe
Researchers from the Global North and South examine the social, political, cultural and ecological processes that inform what it means to be young. With commentaries by young people from across the world, the Research Handbook on the Sociology of Youth shows how they are already tackling issues such as climate justice, racism, inequality, forced migration and mental health.
LGBT+ Youth and Emerging Technologies in Southeast Asia: Designing for Wellbeing
Benjamin Hanckel
LGBT+ Youth and Emerging Technologies in Southeast Asia investigates queer young people’s use of digital tools for health and wellbeing in Southeast Asia. It presents an innovative exploration of how technologies are developed, designed and used across the region, and expands our understanding of the role of digital objects in Southeast Asia.
Young People in Digital Society: Control Shift
Amanda Third, Philippa Collin, Lucas Walsh, Rosalyn Black
Adopting a critical youth studies approach, Young People in Digital Society examines how ideas about cyber-safety, digital inclusion and citizenship are mobilised. Drawing on fieldwork with young Australians aged 12–25, the authors show how moving beyond a paradigm of control opens up a deeper understanding of the capacities generated in and through digital life for young and old alike.
Foster Youth in the Mediasphere: Lived Experience and Digital Lives in the Australian Out-Of-Home Care System
Milissa Deitz, Lynette Sheridan Burns
Foster Youth in the Mediasphere is the first study of social media and the development of ontological security among Australian young people in foster care. It shows how social media can support belonging and resilience for foster youth, and contrasts mainstream media's portrayal of them as the 'other' with their own self-representation online.
Doing Research In and On the Digital: Research Methods Across Fields of Inquiry
Cristina Costa, Jenna Condie
As a site of mediated interactions, the digital has become a space of creation as well as information. Doing Research In and On the Digital details how researchers are devising innovative methods for and within the digital sphere, from harvesting digital data to participatory methods and data stories, and discusses the ethical challenges these approaches raise.