Capturing children’s and adolescent’s views about their lives and issues that affect them will deepen understanding about contemporary childhood, lead to better decisions and offer young people a chance to learn about their rights and powers as citizens. Yet, there is currently no effective way of doing this on a large scale. The seed project is the start of a ground-up process for capturing the views of 10,000 young people aged 6-18 years nation-wide. It involves consultations with young people and parents in pilot schools about the project ideas, ethical protocols and the young people’s user interface.
Researchers
Sarah Wise [Department of Social Work]
Kylie Smith [Melbourne Graduate School of Education]
Cathy Humphreys [Department of Social Work]
Johanna Wyn [Youth Research Centre]
Ann Sanson [Department of Paediatrics]
Marie Connolly [Department of Social Work]
John Tobin [Melbourne Law School]
Lisa Gibbs [Melbourne School of Population and Global Health]
Susan Finch [Department of Mathematics and Statistics]
Gavan McCarthy [eScholarship Research Centre]
Margaret Hamley [Berry Street]
Anne Graham [Southern Cross University]