Seminar: The life patterns of two generations of young Australians: what we have learned, how we have learned it and how this has impacted on thinking about young people

Youth Research Centre Seminar Series 2015 No.3 with Professor Johanna Wyn & Dr Hernan Cuervo, Youth Research Centre, MGSE and Dr Dan Woodman, School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

The Life Patterns research program of the Youth Research Centre has been running for almost as long as the Centre itself (24 years).

The research program consists of two panel cohort studies, one initiated with Victorian school leavers in 1991 and one with Year 11 students in 2005. They have been surveyed and interviewed almost every year to provide a rich data base on the nature and experience of Australian youth, their transitions through education and work and their wellbeing, wider life experiences and relationships.

In this seminar, members of the Life Patterns team discuss what has been learned about Australian youth who have navigated their way through significant historical events, including two global recessions, the emergence of tertiary education as the new mass education sector, the introduction of fees for education, the deregulation of labour markets and the rise of precarious work.

The seminar highlights the approaches used in the research to keep a balance between the continuity of questions needed for comparative analysis and the introduction of new questions that enable the study to remain relevant. Over the quarter of a century that this project has been running, it has made significant contributions to youth policies and to the field of youth studies. The seminar provides an opportunity to reflect on these contributions and their impact.

Tuesday 30 June 2015, 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm, Frank Tate Room, Level 9, 100 Leicester Street Building, University of Melbourne

rsvp Kate Alexander by 19 June 2015

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