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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
Young people in high-income countries now drink much less than their counterparts 20 years ago. But the opposite is happening in developing countries. Why? Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Young people provide timely and personalised mental health support to friends – but sometimes find looking after their own needs difficult in the process.
Use props, break the problem down and stay positive.
Top contributors
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University
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Lecturer in Government, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Surrey
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Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Researcher and PhD Candidate in Education, Monash University
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Professor of IT Ethics and Digital Rights, Bournemouth University
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Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in the Specialty of General Practice, University of Sydney
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Research Officer at Medical School, Swansea University
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Associate Professor in Law, Australian National University
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Research Fellow – Quantitative Data/Statistics, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, The University of Edinburgh
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Science, University of Bedfordshire
