Leaders and organisations across Africa need to seriously rethink how they work with young people.
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The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child outlines children’s right to peaceful assembly.
There seems to be a vacuum for these influencers to fill.
Parents can feel judged for taking their child to a doctor too soon or too late.
Young people living in highly polluted areas were 28% more likely to suffer from long COVID.
Children and teenagers can add to our knowledge of the natural world through citizen science projects.
Children who arrive alone in the UK should be treated equally to other children.
We interviewed 11- to 17-year-olds and they told us gambling advertising is so pervasive in their lives, it’s become normalised.
New research finds that some common houseplants take in nutrients from outside the soil.
With less adherence to party politics and a broadly progressive viewpoint, young people will play a key role in the outcome of the Voice to Parliament referendum.
Young Nigerians actively discuss politics and governance despite being kept on the sidelines. They seek a government that would promote their inclusion and solve problems affecting them.
The US surgeon general says 13 is ‘too early’ to be on social media. But an expert on parenting and digital media cautions against a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach.
Children and their parents reported facing discriminatory attitudes from teachers.
The emotional stress of growing up in a poor household may contribute to obesity.
Disabled young people from a low social class background fare much worse in the labour market.
Children may struggle to recall basic words in their first language within a couple of months of stopping using it.
BNPL is now the second most common form of consumer credit used by young Australians - except technically it’s not credit.
New research looks at young people’s experiences of bullying in their own words.
About 27% of 18- to 29-year-olds voted in the midterms, marking the second-highest voter turnout in midterms in 30 years.
Most young people regard reining in the big social media platforms as only part of the solution to the ‘relentless stream’ of abuse and shaming they experience online
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Professor of Education Policy and Practice, Youth Studies, Monash University
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Professor of IT Ethics and Digital Rights, Bournemouth University
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Professor of Political Sociology, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer in Government, Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies, Flinders University
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Associate Professor in Criminology, University of Surrey
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Lecturer, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Law, Australian National University
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Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Research Officer at Medical School, Swansea University
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Rosalind Hollis Professor of Education for Social Justice, University of Hull
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Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Newcastle
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Chief Policy Fellow, University of Leeds
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Professor of Adolescent Health, Co-Head of the General Practice Clinical School, University of Sydney