Youth, Diversity and Wellbeing
in a Digital Age

CRIS Webinar 6th December 2022 | Online

Professor Amanda Keddie, CRIS, Deakin University
Professor Michael Flood, Queensland University of Technology
Shelley Hewson-Munro, Victoria University
Maria Delaney, Deakin University

There are now many programs that focus on creating more respectful, caring and inclusive men and boys. These programs are important especially given the renewed attention to gender-based violence and the harms of this violence for women, children and other men. However, they may not necessarily support social and gender justice.

The Working with Men and Boys for Social Justice Assessment Tool has been developed to support leaders, designers and facilitators of programs for boys and men to evaluate the social and gender justice capacities of their program.

CRIS Webinar 15th August 2022 | Online

Professor Amanda Third, CRIS
Soo-Lin Quek, CRIS & Centre for Multicultural Youth
Associate Professor Philippa Collin
Alex Lee. Explore
Komal Grewal, Explore
Michelle Lim, Explore
Peter Savat, Explore

Are you a young person who would like to know more about the world of research? Or a researcher who wants to work with young people to do research in meaningful and relevant ways?

Join our team of young researchers from the Centre for Multicultural Youth and (not so young) researchers from the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies as we launch our new Youth Co-Research Toolkit!

Young people, researchers and allies have long advocated for better ways to conduct research with and for young people. A team of young researchers, in partnership with the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies and the Centre for Multicultural Youth, has been experimenting with how to embed young people in research projects as research team members. They have pulled together their key insights about this work into a resource, designed to support researchers to get the most out of working together in intergenerational research teams. The toolkit has been developed with a general audience of young people and professional researchers in mind but can be tailored to different settings as needed.

Hear how the Toolkit was developed; listen to young researchers’ perspectives on the key ingredients of a successful research project; and brainstorm how we can put this Toolkit into action.

CRIS Race and Media Webinar Series

26th November 2020

Dr Tristan Kennedy, Lecturer, Department of Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University
Associate Professor Alana Lentin, Western Sydney University
Daizy Maan, Entrepreneurship Program Manager, Deakin University – SPARK Deakin
Leah Jing Mcintosh, Editor of Liminal Mag and PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne
Moderated by: Dr Sherene Idriss (Deakin University)

Young people use new media in disruptive, innovative and spontaneous ways and as such are commonly perceived as ‘digital natives’. The efforts of Greta Thunberg and the global BLM movement, spearheaded in Australia in large part by young people, has led to the assumption that all young people are avid social media users who engage in political discussion, debate and anti-racist movements online with ease. However, research shows that data literacy and digital participation is not a universally even experience. Factors like gender, class and race critically shape online engagement.

This seminar will ask how these broader structural factors shape young people’s involvement in digital media and anti-racist movements; how COVID-19 has opened new challenges and possibilities for the emergence of local and transnational antiracist movements; as well as how race affects our general understanding of the kinds of vulnerabilities facing young people, especially children, who experience hate speech, bullying and predators online.