Research shows that the drivers of resilience are complex and thus require holistic, socio-ecological responses. Underpinned by interdisciplinary approaches and youth-centred, participatory methods, the Young and Resilient Research Centre (incorporating the Intergener8 Living Lab) generates evidence-based policy and practice outcomes that leverage the digital to strengthen the resilience of young people and their communities.

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Unlocking Collaboration: Successes and Insights from the Youth Co-Research Masterclasses
Three Youth-Co-Research masterclasses, hosted by the Young and Resilient Research Centre and the Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY), took place to launch our new Youth Co-Research Toolkit designed for researchers supporting young people in research roles across any industry. We are excited to offer a recording of the online masterclass so you can gain confidence in using this resource for your own work. This project was generously funded by the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies. 
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Exchanging ideas and inspiring action at the 2023 AAAH Conference
The AAAH conference is an opportunity for young people, researchers, health care professionals, academics, youth advocates and policymakers to come together and learn from each other. Our team was once again honoured to participate in the Adelaide event, and to co-facilitate a pre-conference workshop.
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Unique and Strategic: How young people in India navigate local and global communities
Professor Manisha Pathak-Shelat presented the findings of a 6-year long ethnographic study focused on Gen Z content creation and consumption in India. Featuring insights from her upcoming book, co-authored with Kiran Vinod Bhatia, you can now watch the hybrid event on demand.
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NSW Youth Work Awards – Celebrating our partnership with UNICEF Australia
We are excited to announce our work with UNICEF Australia was recognised by the NSW Youth Work Awards 2023, where we were nominated for our ‘Outstanding Partnership’. Together we worked on a project called ‘Children, young people and climate change: developing child-centred indicators for climate justice’.
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Young & Resilient Wins Real Impact Award!
Young & Resilient wins 'Mobilising research into action’ category in Emerald Publishing Real Impact Awards.

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ICA 2024 Pre-conference and Call for papers
We invite postgraduate students, emerging and senior researchers, children and young people who have participated as co-researchers in media and communications research, to attend and contribute their original research, findings, and innovative ideas to our interdisciplinary discussion. This one day preconference will occur in Brisbane on 20th June 2024.
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Resource: Youth Co-research Toolkit for Researchers
This toolkit offers guidance, advice, tips and practical tools to support collaborative co-research partnerships between researchers and young people. The information draws on the experiences and learnings of researchers working in the fields of social and cultural youth studies. However, you can apply the resources in diverse research settings.
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Project: The Development of Global Child and Adolescent-Centred Nutrition_Indicators (CAN_I)
The 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.

Study With Us

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Interested in undertaking higher degree research in an innovative and exciting research environment? Young and Resilient fosters excellence in engaged research and scholarship, and offers unique opportunities to think, design and develop solutions to social challenges.. Read more about

Co-Research Toolkit

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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 about

Our Partners

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At Young and Resilient Research Centre, we pool the strengths of different stakeholders ranging from academic institutions, government bodies, international and local policymakers, private industries, social entrepreneurs, to young community.. Read more about


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