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In Lagos, cinema audiences don’t go to the movies for the film alone. There’s more.
COVID-19 vaccine testing on children is just getting started, and only in adolescents.
Media depictions of youth during the pandemic are distorting the actual experiences, practices and attitudes of young adults during COVID-19, as well as the pandemic’s impact on them.
Communicators must listen to the frustrations, fears and concerns of young people about COVID-19. Then they need to speak to them like human beings, rather than talk at them.
With 70 percent of its people under 30 years, Nigeria needs to harness the strength in its youthful population.
They are often framed as lazy and fraudulent and are constantly harassed by the police. Now, it seems they have had enough. We explore what it takes to be a young Nigerian living in Nigeria.
Although the Nigerian government has announced the disbanding of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, protesters have not let up. They are now calling for wider reforms.
The story map reveals that like any part of society, street youth are both subject to and willing to conform to rules and conventions, in this case for their own and others’ safety.
While community transmission remains a challenge, we must understand the effects the pandemic is having on younger adults to design effective public health responses and messaging.
An app that young people use to share videos of themselves dancing might seem like a silly diversion, but it’s become a powerhouse social media platform.
Young people’s lives in the Niger Delta have not improved because development agencies have been hijacked by local leaders
Waterloo Region District School Board’s suspension of the Student Resource Officer program is one step toward ending racism in schools but much more still needs to be done.
Is there a single master gene that controls longevity in all mammals? Or are ‘Fountain of Youth’ genes little more than a myth?
The federal government should create a federal child and youth advocate — a children’s commissioner — in order to help Canada’s crossover youth.
There are five transitions young people aged 16-25 make between school and employment. Most involve some vocational education and training. Some involve university and others no education at all.
Current legislation focuses on the flavor of e-cigarettes. But the latest research shows the attraction isn’t about taste.
Now that Canadian youth can work part-time without becoming ineligible for government assistance, many will be incentivized to work in jobs in increased demand during the COVID-19 shutdown.
The Trudeau government took the first step to federally ban conversion therapy — a practice intended to change sexual orientation.
Research on the everyday lives of Indonesian young people and their religious interactions may help shed light on why they are becoming more conservative.
Top contributors
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Social Science, York University, Canada
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in School-Based Mental Health and Violence Prevention, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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PhD candidate (health), Dalhousie University
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Professor, Département des sciences de l'activité physique, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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ARC Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Sociology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Faculty of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Full Professor and Associate Vice-President, Research, Mount Saint Vincent University
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Dean of Programs, EM Lyon Business School
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Professor of Geography, The University of Melbourne
