Youth & community research
Youth and community studies is a multidisciplinary area of inquiry focused on:
- the social inclusion of young people
- community development
- inclusive and transformational education and social justice
- applied youth studies
- professional youth and community work.
The Youth and Community Research group encompasses academics from the youth and community teaching programs within the College of Arts, Business, Law, Education and IT and researchers focused on Young People & Social Inclusion within ISILC.
The Youth and Community Research Group is establishing the ‘Centre of Excellence – Young People and Disasters’ funded by the Federal government, in partnership with the Youth Affairs Council of Victoria.
Research areas
- Professional youth work
- Professional community work
- Sociology of youth
- Applied youth studies
- Social pedagogy
- Youth policy
- Human rights and young people
- Community development studies
- Informal, non-formal and community education
- Community justice
- Criminal justice and young people
- Sociology of education
- Social justice and social inclusion
- Inclusive education
- Exclusion – social, political, media, race
- Community resilience
- Critical disability
- Critical discourse
- Critical pedagogy
- Critical feminism
- Globalisation and culture
- Youth activism
- Intercultural relations
- Youth identities and belonging
- Young people and disasters
- Young people and climate change
- Participatory and community based creative research approaches
- Mixed methods and pragmatic research approaches
Research projects
Read about our current research into youth and community.
Researchers
Find out who's in our team, and read our researcher biographies via the links.
Partners, funders & collaborators
We collaborate with high-profile public and private organisations, as well as Australian and international universities.