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ItemResearching Young Lives: Methodologies, Methods, Practices and Perspectives. Volume 2.(Youth Research Centre, 2018)Within each report, each case study is a snapshot of an actual research project currently being conducted in the YRC. Our researchers are sharing their experiences and offering their advice for conducting social research in an increasingly complex and diverse societal environment. The practices presented in this series of research reports reflect the innovative and contemporary research methodologies and methods undertaken by YRC staff and students. Some of the methods illustrated here are traditional but employed in new ways; while other methodologies and methods depart from conventional research practices to cover more innovative practices to investigate and understand the multidimensional ways of being young in the twenty-first century.
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ItemStimulating curriculum and teaching innovations to support the mental wellbeing of university students(Australian Government Department of Education and Training, 2017)The aim of the project Stimulating Curriculum and Teaching Innovations was to build the capacity of university educators to develop policies, curriculum, and teaching and learning environments that enhance student mental wellbeing. The growing prevalence and severity of mental health difficulties across student populations in higher education is an issue of significant concern for universities. This project aimed to foster sector wide conversations, promote a whole-of-institution approach to promoting student mental wellbeing in universities and develop a suite of research-informed resources to help academic educators identify curriculum and teaching approaches that can promote and support students’ mental wellbeing.
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ItemLearning Across the Life Course.(Youth Research Centre, 2018)This research report focuses on Life Patterns Cohort 1 participants who left secondary school in 1991 amidst deep social, labour and economic restructuring of Australian society. Amidst this backdrop, we draw on existing quantitative and qualitative data from the Life Patterns Project to examine the educational, employment and personal factors which generate the need to upskill or re-train over the life course. Our aim is to examine why some participants, despite already having a post-secondary school qualification, re-engaged in education and training and thus became lifelong learners.
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ItemGlobal Youth and Spaces of Belonging in China, Australia and Tanzania(Youth Research Centre, 2017)The question ‘where and how do young people belong?’ is central to youth studies, as young people are increasingly mobile, and many are ever more marginalised from economic participation. On a global scale it is common for young people to move to metropolitan areas for education, responding to global labour markets and seeking refuge from environmental and economic degradation, and asylum from violence. This mobility inevitably raises questions about the nature and quality of young people’s connections with people and place (or ‘belonging’).