Engaging Youth in Regional Australia: Youth Perspectives (original) (raw)

Engaging Youth in Regional Australia Study: Processes, Preliminary Findings, and Future Directions

New Community, 2021

In this article, I describe preliminary findings from a three-year research project called Engaging Youth in Regional Australia, funded by the Australian Research Council from 2019-2021. Through a combination of qualitative research and creative methods, the project sought to better understand the reasons why young people stay, leave, or return to regional areas of Australia, and how local governments and community organisations might better engage with regional youth. By adopting a narrative style throughout the paper, I reflect on the processes of completing this large project as well as the challenges of adapting the research during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Changing Context of Australian Youth and Its Implications for Social Inclusion

Youth Studies Australia, 2009

The proceedings are aimed at fostering, informing and stimulating public reflection, discussion, debate, research, and policy initiatives to address one of the central challenges facing contemporary Australian governments, industries and communities. They are published on the Brotherhood of St Laurence's website at: http://www.bsl.org.au/main.asp?PageId=6175 These proceedings were edited by Annelies Kamp with assistance from Arnaud Gallois. Assistance with online publication by Kristine Philipp.

Tapping the Pulse of Youth in Cosmopolitan South-Western and Western Sydney

2007

A research project funded by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship. As a pilot project, the main purpose of this research was to test the efficacy of conducting surveys of minority young people in Australia as a way of gaining Tapping The Pulse of Youth in Western and South-Western Sydney 2 information that would provide insights into their lives and the ways that they connect to their friends, their family, and their community. The aim was to provide a snapshot of the attitudes and aspirations of young men and women from minority backgrounds living in Western and South-Western Sydney and of the state of inter-ethnic youth relations in the region that has the greatest density of minority youth in all Australia. This was because there were many claims about how Australian multicultural society was or was not working, but little evidence to back these claims. We were also interested to explore aspects of the lives of minority youth related to education, work, identity, people ...

Youth Driven Engagement in the Homestay Program

Jurnal Pendidikan Teknologi dan Kejuruan, 2017

Community-based tourism (CBT) is one of the tourist attracting ways involving local community which aims to develop and to enhance the era as well as to bring renewal to the local community. It includes the involvement of youth. CBT comes in various types and this study was conducted to find how CBT can create youth engagement in the homestay program. There were various factors that motivate youth to participate in homestay program. This study involved one case study of a qualitative study conducted in a district in Sabah, namely in Kundasang. In this study, Mersilou Homestay and Walai Tokou Homestay were chosen to be used as a place of study to review factors youth engagement in the homestay program. Data collection was through interviews in partial structures. Data were analyzed using NviVo 10 software and based on certain themes. The findings shown that there were several factors which drive engagement of youth in the homestay program in terms of interests, income, parental e...

Everyday youth participation? Contrasting views from Australian policymakers and young people

Young, 2010

Youth participation, as a form of consultation within policymaking processes in Australia, has been largely critiqued for its reliance on formal participation mechanisms that are rarely inclusive or representative of a range of young people's experiences. This article shows that policymakers who are critical of formal methods of youth participation can identify contemporary effective practice and believe initiatives ought to be youth-led, purposeful, provide feedback and be creative and fun. Thus, there is a new awareness by policymakers of the effectiveness of integrating young people's everyday perspectives into participation. Similarly, it was found that participation and active involvement in decision making was meaningful for young people when it was youth-led, fun and informal, and based on relevant, everyday issues rather than complex policy processes. So why has youth participation remained static and focused mainly on new formal initiatives? To examine this contrast in views and practices, the article presents fi ndings from four discussion groups convened with senior government and community policymakers and a qualitative examination of both marginalized young people's understanding of youth participation mechanisms and their capacity to infl uence policymaking that affected their everyday lives.

What matters to young Australians: exploring young people's perspectives from 2010-2018

2020

About the Whitlam Institute The Whitlam Institute is building a nationally significant institution delivering distinctive, bold and inspiring policy research and programs that promote common ground, inclusive national identity and civic engagement for all Australians. We seek to be recognised across the political spectrum as delivering a nation-building agenda. "...help the great and continuing work of building a more equal, open, tolerant and independent Australia. " Gough Whitlam 2010 For more information about the Whitlam Institute, please visit our website whitlam.org Cover photo by Jay Wennington on Unsplash collection. This was no easy task and many techniques had to be trialled in an effort to extract insights from the diverse ways young people write and express their ideas. Western Sydney University Summer Intern, Rachel Rae, helped advance the project through initial interview analysis and experimentation with topic analysis. We are also indebted to Whitlam Institute staff who assisted with various administrative aspects from coordinating recruitment for interviews to digitisation of the corpus and publication of this report. We also thank Dr Nukte Ogun who provided editorial advice on the final report.