CURRICULUM VITAE 2009

Professor Johanna Wyn

ACADEMIC AND EMPLOYMENT DETAILS

Current employment position

Professor in Education and Director, Youth Research Centre

Leader, Education, Equity and Social Change cluster
Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne

Academic Qualifications

1986 Ph.D. Monash University, (Sociology)

1979 M.A. (research) The University of New England (Sociology)
1974 B.A. (Hons) Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

History of academic and professional appointments

1991-2009 Director Youth research Centre, Melbourne Graduate School of

Education
2005-2009 Cluster Leader Education, Equity and Social Change, Melbourne
Graduate School of Education
2002-2004 Deputy Dean Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne
2001-2004 Head of Department Education Policy and Management, University of
Melbourne
2001-2004 Assistant Dean (Regional) Faculty of Education, University of
Melbourne
2001 Professor Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne
1995-2001 Associate Professor, Department of Education Policy and Management,
University of Melbourne
1989-1995 Senior Lecturer, Division of Policy and Context Studies / Department of
Education Policy and Management, University of Melbourne
1983-1988 Lecturer, Department of Educational Sociology and Social Studies,
Melbourne College of Advanced Education.
1972-1982 Senior Tutor, Department of Educational Sociology, Melbourne State
College.
1977-1978 Tutor, Department of Educational Sociology, Melbourne State
College
1975-1976 Tutor, Centre for Behavioural Studies, Faculty of Education,
University of New England, Armidale, NSW
1974 Tutor, Sociology Department, Victoria University of Wellington, New
Zealand
PUBLICATIONS

Books

Wyn, J. 2009. Youth Health and Welfare: The Cultural Politics of Education and
Wellbeing, Oxford University Press: Melbourne.
White, R., & Wyn, J. 2004, 2008 (2nd Edition). Youth and Society: Exploring the
Social Dynamics of Youth Experience, Oxford University Press: Melbourne: vii + 274
pp.
Dwyer, P., & Wyn, J. 2001. Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future,
Routledge/Falmer, London: viii + 221 pp.
Wyn, J., & White, R. 1997. Rethinking Youth, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, and Sage
London: vii + 169 pp.
Wilson, B. & Wyn, J. 1986. Shaping Futures, Youth Action for Livelihood, Sydney:
Allen and Unwin: vi + 140.

Refereed Journals
Wyn, J. 2009. Young People’s Health and Wellbeing: contradictions in managing the
healthy self, ACHPER Healthy Lifestyles Journal 56(1) 5-10.
Wyn, J. 2009. The Changing Context of Australian Youth and its Implications for
Social Inclusion, Youth Studies Australia, 28(1) 46-50.
Harris, A and Wyn, J. 2009. Young people’s politics and the micro-territories of the
local, Australian Journal of Political Science. In press, accepted for publication
December 2008.
Green J., Lo Bianco J., Wyn J. 2007. ‘Discourses in Interaction: The intersection of
literacy and health research internationally’, Literacy and Numeracy Studies 15(2) 19-
37.
Wyn, J. 2007. Learning to become somebody well: challenges for educational policy,
Australian Educational Researcher, 34(3) 35-52.
Harris, A., Wyn, J., & Younes, S. 2007. Young People and Citizenship: An Everyday
Perspective, Youth Studies Australia, 26(3) 18-26.
Stokes, H. & Wyn, J. 2007. Young people’s identities and making careers: young
people’s perspectives on work and learning, International Journal of Lifelong
Education 26(5) 495-511.
Wyn, J. and Woodman, D. 2007. Researching Youth in a Time of Change: A Reply to
Roberts, Journal of Youth Studies, 10(3) 373-381.
Wyn, J., 2007. Young People’s New, Diverse Patterns of Life and Their Implications
for Recognising Participation in Civic Society, International Journal of Children’s
Rights, 15(1): 165-179.
Wyn, J., & Woodman, D. 2006. Generation, Youth and Social Change in Australia,
Journal of Youth Studies, 9(5) pp. 495-514.
Eckersley, R., Wierenga, A., & Wyn, J. 2006. Success and Wellbeing: A Preview of
the Australia 21 Report on Young People’s Wellbeing. Youth Studies Australia, 25:
10-18.
Eckersley, R., Wierenga, A & Wyn, J. 2005. Life in a time of uncertainty: optimising
the health and wellbeing of young Australians, Medical Journal of Australia, 183 (8),
pp. 3 – 6.
Wright, J., MacDonald, D., Wyn, J., & Kriflik, L. 2005. Becoming somebody:
Changing priorities & physical activity, Youth Studies Australia, 24(1), pp. 16 – 21.

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Wyn, J. 2004. Becoming Adult in the 2000s: new transitions and new careers, Family
Matters 68 (Winter), pp. 4-10.
Wyn, J. and Harris, A. 2004. Youth Research in Australia and New Zealand, Young
12(3), pp. 269-287.
Freeman, E., Strong, D., Cahill, H., Wyn, J., & Shaw, G. 2003. Enhancing
Professional Practice: an innovative professional development strategy to support
teachers in school-based mental health promotion, Journal of In-Service Education,
29 (2), pp. 277-293.
Wyn, J., Cahill, H., & Shaw, G. Making a Difference: Evaluating a student welfare
approach to health promotion and while-school change, Learning matters. 7(1), pp.
12-15 (2002)
Willis, E., Miller, R., & Wyn, J. - Gendered embodiment and survival for young
people with cystic fibrosis. Social Science & Medicine, 53(9): pp.1163-1174 (2001)
Wyn, J. 2001. The meanings of youth ‘marginalisation’. Health Promotion Journal of
Australia, 12(3): pp. 11-12.
Brown, S., Johnson, K & Wyn, J. 2001. Minimising the health Impacts of Gambling:
Horn of Africa Community. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 7(1): pp.124-124.
Wyn, J., Acker, S., & Richards, E. 2000. Making a Difference: Women in
management in Australian and Canadian Faculties of Education. Gender and
Education, 12(4): pp. 435-448.
Wyn, J. Cahill, H., Carson, S., Holdsworth, R. & Rowling, L. 2000. Mindmatters, a
whole school approach promoting mental health and well-being. Australian and New
Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 34(4): pp. 594-601.
Wyn, J. & White, R. 2000. Negotiating Social Change: The Paradox of Youth. Youth
and Society. 32(2): pp. 165-183.
Wyn, J. & Dwyer, P. 2000. New Patterns of Youth Transition in Education.
International Social Science Journal. 164: pp. 147-159.
Wyn, J. & Dwyer, P. 1999. New Directions in Research on Youth Transitions.
Journal of Youth Studies 2(1): pp. 5-21.
Dwyer, P. J., & Wyn, J. 1998. A new agenda: changing life-patterns of the post-1970
generation. International Bulletin of Youth Research. 17: pp. 27-34.
Brown, S., Johnson, K., Jackson, A., & Wyn, J. 1998. Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?
The health implications of gambling for women. Australian Journal of Public Health
Interchange. 4(3): pp. 156-162.
White, R. & Wyn, J. Youth Agency and Social Structure. 1998. Australian and New
Zealand Journal of Sociology. 1(1): pp. 23-38.
Dwyer, P & Wyn, J. 1998. Post-Compulsory Education Policy in Australia and its
impact on Participant Pathways and Outcomes in the 1990s. Journal of Education
Policy. 13(3): pp. 285-300.
Wyn, J. 1998. The Post-1970s Generation, issues for researching young people in
Australia today. Family Matters. 49: pp. 44-46.
Wyn, J. & White, R. 1998. Young People, Social Problems and Australian Youth
Studies. Journal of Youth Studies, 1(1): pp. 23 – 38.

Chapters in books
Wyn, J. 2009. Educating for Modernity, in A. Furlong (Ed), Handbook on Youth and
Young Adulthood: New perspectives and agendas, Routledge: London
Wyn, J. 2009. Social Determinants of Young People’s Health in a Risk Society, In H.
Keleher (Ed), Understanding Health, A Determinants Approach (2nd Ed), Oxford
University Press, Melbourne

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Wyn, J. 2008. New Youth Transitions in Education, In R. Bendit and M. Hahn-
Bleibtreu (Eds.), Youth and the future. Processes of social inclusion and patterns of
vulnerability in a globalised world. Opladen & Barbara Budrich Publishers,
Farmington Hills, USA
Fyfe, J. & Wyn, J. 2007. Young Activists Making the News: The role of the Media in
Youth Political and Civic Engagement, in K. Edwards, M. Print and L. Saha, (Eds),
Youth and Political Participation, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam
Wyn, J. 2006. Youth Transitions to Work and Further Education in Australia, in
Lifelong Learning, Participation and Equity, P. Cartwright, J. Chapman and E.
McGilp (Eds), Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, pp. 217-242.
Wyn, J. 2005. Youth Research in Australia and New Zealand, in H. Helve, G. Holm,
(Eds), Contemporary Youth Research: Local Expressions and Global Connections,
London: Ashgate. Pp. 51-62.
te Reile, K., and Wyn, J. 2005. Transformations in Youth Transitions in Australia,
Chapter 7 in N. Bagnall (Ed). Youth Transitions in a Globalised Marketplace, New
York: Nova Science Publishers. Pp. 119-139.
Wyn, J. 2005. What is happening to “Adolescence”? Growing up in changing times,
in J. A. Vadeboncoeur, and L. P. Stevens, (Eds), Re/Constructing the “Adolescent”:
Sign, Symbol and Body, New York: Peter Lang.
Wyn, J. 2005. Youth in the Media: Adult stereotypes of young people, in A. Williams
and C. Thurlow, (Eds). Communication in Adolescence: Perspectives on Language
and Social Interaction in the Teenage Years, Peter Lang: New York.
Wyn, J. 2004. The Transition of young people to adulthood in changing times and
contexts, in R. Galbally (Ed), Healthy Minds, Healthy Bodies, Healthy Nation:
Connecting Education and Health, College Yearbook 2004, Canberra: Australian
College of Education, pp. 93-102.
Wyn, J. 2005. Youth, risk and Education, in S. Richardson and M. Prior (Eds), No
Time to Lose: the Wellbeing of Australia’s Children, Carlton, Australia: Melbourne
University Press, pp. 225-280.
Wyn, J. 2002. Children, Families, Schools and Change: Shaping new, participatory
agendas, In Prior, M. (Ed). Investing in our Children: Developing a Research Agenda,
Canberra: Academy of Social Sciences, pp. 69-83.
Rennie, P., & Wyn, J. 2002. Who are the Learners? In, Knowledge Builders: Fresh
thinking about learners and their teachers, Canberra: Australian National Training
Authority, pp. 8-17.
Sheehan, M., Cahill, H., Rowling, L., Marshall, G., Wyn, J. 2002. Establishing a role
for schools in mental health promotion: The MindMatters project, in L. Rowling, G.
Martin & L. Walker eds., Mental Health Promotion, pp. 111-126.
Wyn J. 2000. The Postmodern Girl: Education, “success” and the construction of
girls’ identities, in Researching Youth, ed. J. McLeod & K. Malone, Australian
Clearinghouse for Youth Studies, Hobart: pp. 59-70.
Wyn, J. 2000. Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the New Millennium, in Social
Changes and Youth Development Policies in the New Millennium – Promoting Youth
Rights and Adolescents’ Social Participation, Korea Institute for Youth Development,
Seoul: pp. 313-333.
Wyn, J. & Stokes, H. 2000. Young People in Rural Australia in the 1990s: Challenges
and Community Action, in The Dead Centre: Regional Australia in Crisis, ed. I. Falk,
Allen and Unwin, Sydney: pp. 32-41.

Professional journals

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Wyn, J. Learners of the Future. 2007. Are Schools, Teachers and Parents Ready for
Them? Learning Matters, 12(1) pp. 30 – 32.
Wyn, J. 2005. Education and Gender: are the boys losing? Seeing Red, (3), pp. 12 –
14.
Wyn, J. 2004. New Generation: New Life Patterns, Independent Education,
November, pp. 16 – 20.
Wyn, J. 2002. Post-compulsory schooling: a perspective from youth research, Journal
of the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English, Special Issue: Post-
Compulsory Pathways: through the dark wood with the white rabbit and into the
minotaur cave, 38(3) pp. 6-12.
Wyn, J. 2001. Rethinking Youth: Perceptions of Young People Shape Public Agenda.
The Nonprofit Quarterly. 8(4) pp. 12-15.

Monographs and Research Reports

Wierenga, A., Wyn, J., Guevera, J., Gough, A., Schulz, L., Beadle, S., Ratnam, S.,
and King, G. 2008. Youth-led learning: Local connections and global citizenship,
Youth Research Centre: Melbourne.
Harris, A., Wyn, J., and Younes, S. 2008. Rethinking Youth Citizenship: Identity and
Connetion, Australian Youth Research Centre: Melbourne.
Wyn, J., Smith, G., Stokes, H., Tyler, D., and Woodman, D. 2008. Generations and
Social Change: Negotiating Adulthood in the 21st Century, Australian Youth Research
Centre: Melbourne.
Eckersley, R., Cahill, H., Wierenga, A., & Wyn, J. 2007. Generations in Dialogue
about the Future: The hopes and fears of young Australians, Youth Research Centre
and Australia 21: Melbourne.
Eckersley, R., Wierenga, A., & Wyn, J. 2006. Flashpoint & Signposts: Pathways to
Success and Wellbeing for Australia’s Young People, Melbourne: Youth Research
Centre.
Dwyer, P., Smith, G., Tyler, D. & Wyn, J., 2005. Immigrants in Time: Life-Patterns
2004, Research Report 27, Youth Research Centre: Melbourne.
Wyn, J., Stokes, H., and Tyler, D. 2004. Stepping Stones: TAFE and ACE program
development for early school leavers, Adelaide: National Centre for Vocational
Education Research.
Stokes, H., Wierenga, A., Wyn, J., 2004. Preparing for the future and living now:
young people’s perceptions of Career Education, Enterprise Education and Part-time
Work, Research Report 24, Youth Research Centre: Melbourne.
Cahill, H., Wyn, J. & Smith, G., 2004. The Welfare Needs of Victorian Catholic
Schools, Research Report 25, Youth Research Centre, Melbourne.
Cahill, H., Shaw, G., Wyn, J., Smith, G. 2004. Translating Caring into Action: an
evaluation of the Victorian Catholic Education Student Welfare Professional
Development Initiative, Research Report 26, Youth Research Centre: Melbourne.
Wierenga, A., Wyn, J., Glover, S., Meade, M. 2003. Application of Enabling State
Principles in the Delivery of Youth Services, Research Report 21, Melbourne:
Australian Youth Research Centre.
Dwyer, P., Smith, G., Tyler, D., and Wyn, J. 2003. Life-Patterns, Career Outcomes
and Adult Choices, Research Report 23, Melbourne: Australian Youth Research
Centre.
Wyn, J., & Willis, E. 2001. International Labour and Education Markets for Youth:
the Case of Young Australians at Whistler, WRNET Working Paper 01.03, WRNET:
Vancouver. pp. 1-30.

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Wyn, J., Stokes, H., Forth, G., & Howell, K. 2001. Evaluation of the Victorian Youth
Enterprise Pilot, South West, Research Report 20, Youth Research Centre,
Melbourne: pp. 1-40.
Wyn, J., Semmens, B., Falk, I., & Guenther, J. 2001. Education for Rural
Development in Australia 1945 – 2001, Working Paper 22, Youth Research Centre,
Melbourne: pp. 1-48.
Lamb, S., Dwyer, P., & Wyn, J. 2000. School Non-Completers, Australian Council
for Educational Research, Melbourne: pp. vi-65.
Brown, S., Johnson, K., Jackson, A., Fook, J. Wyn, J & Rooke, C. 2000. Healthy,
Wealthy & Wise Women: The Health Impacts of Gambling on Women in
Melbourne’s Western Metropolitan Region, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation,
Melbourne: pp. I-128.
Brown, S., Johnson, K., Jackson, A., Wyn, J. 1999. Who Picks up the Tab? Issues and
Dilemmas for services providing mainstream support to women affected by gambling
in Melbourne’s Western Metropolitan Region, Women’s Health West, Melbourne: pp.
i-56.
James, R. (2002). Equity of participation for people from lower socio-economic
backgrounds and rural and isolated areas, Submission to Review of Australian Higher
Education.
James, R., Wyn, J., Baldwin, G., Hepworth, G., Mcinnis C., & Stephanou, A. (1999).
Rural and Isolated Students and their Higher Education Choices: A re-examination of
student location, socioeconomic background and educational advantage and
disadvantage, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra: pp. i-121.
Dwyer, P., Harwood, A., Costin, G., Landy, M., Towsty, L., & Wyn, J. 1999.
Combined Study and Work Paths in VET: Policy Implications and Analysis, National
Council for Vocational Education and Training, Leabrook: pp. 1-43.
Wyn, J., Stokes, H., & Stafford, J. 1998. Young People in Rural Australia, Research
Report No. 16, Youth Research Centre, Melbourne: pp. 1-40.

Editor of Special Issue

Wyn, J. 2001. Rural and Remote Community and Health, Health Education Australia,
Health Education Association of Victoria 1 (3).
Wyn, J. 1999. Education and Sexualities, Melbourne Studies in Education, Special
Issue. (40)2: pp. 1-150.

Refereed conference publications

Wyn J. 2003. Youth, Transition, Risk and Social Exclusion, in K. Heggen, R.

Bergem, R. Høydal, R. Kvalsund & J. O. Myklebust (Eds), Marginalisation and
Social Exclusion, Volda: Møre Research and Volda University College, pp. 37-50.
Wyn, J. 2003. Is there evidence of a New Adulthood? Youth, adulthood and social
change, Conference Proceedings, The Australian Sociological Association, Armidale
NSW, pp. 1-10.

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

Book

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Andres, L. Wyn, J. The Making of a Generation: Young Adults in Canada and
Australia, Toronto University Press. 2009.

RESEARCH

National Competitive Grants (Chief Investigator) in the last seven years:

Youth-Led Learning: Local connections and global citizenship, with Ani Wierenga
(Australian Youth Research Centre), Jose Guevara and Annette Gough (RMIT) and
Plan International Australia (Industry partner), $230,000
Pathways Then and Now: new student transitions to adulthood in a comparative
context, 2005 – 2009 Australian Research Council (Discovery) $432.000
Youth civic participation and social connection in post-industrial society, with Dr.
Anita Harris, Monash University, 2005 – 2007, Australian Research Council
(Discovery), $150,000
Flexible career patterns: graduate redefinitions of outcomes in the new labour
market, 2002 – 2004, Australian Research Council (Discovery), $186.000
Successful re-entry models for young people into TAFE, 2001
National Council for Vocational Education Research, $60.500
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Student Welfare Professional Development, with
Catholic Education Office (Victoria), 2000 – 2003, Australian Research Council
(SPIRT) $250.000
Young People and Physical Activity, with: Jan Wright (University of Wollongong),
Doune MacDonald (University of Queensland), 2001 – 2003, Australian Research
Council $150.000
Vocational integration of post-Compulsory education and training 1998 – 2000,
Australian Research Council (Large Grant) $156.000

International competitive Grants (Chief Investigator)

Comparative study of Canadian and Australian transitions, Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council, (Canada), 2005-2007, $200,000.

Other research grants and consultancies

Over the last six years, in addition to the above competitive grants, I have received
research support from state governments and the federal government, foundations and
research organisations for over 30 separate research projects and research
consultancies, amounting to $800,000.

The Youth Research Centre

Under my leadership the Youth Research Centre has become recognised as the one of
Australia’s foremost youth research organisations. Now in its 20th year, the Centre has
played a significant role in shaping debates and issues in the field of youth studies.
Based in the Graduate School of Education, the Centre has a strong track record of
work with multi-disciplinary teams to generate knowledge about young people’s lives
in a context of social change. With a focus on applied and policy-related research,

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projects tend to be inter-disciplinary and partnership-based. The Centre’s work can be
accessed on www.yrc.edfac.unimelb.edu.au

AWARDS

2005, Edward Clarence Dyason Universitas 21 Fellowship. Awarded by the

University of Melbourne to undertake a study program at Glasgow University and the
University of British Columbia.
2005, Inaugural recipient of the Adam Smith Award, University of Glasgow.
Awarded for research in the social sciences.
2000, Canadian Studies for Foundations in Education (CAFE) Award. Awarded for
the most significant contribution to the foundations of education 1999-2000 for the
article: Wyn, Acker & Richards, 2000, Making a Difference: Women in management
in Australian and Canadian Faculties of Education, Gender and Education, pp. 435-
448.
2000, Award for Innovation and Excellence in Primary Health Care (Community
Participation). Presented by Australian Institute for Primary Care and School of
Public Health, LaTrobe University. Awarded for outstanding community-based
outcomes from the Women and Gambling research project, funded by the Victorian
Health Promotion Foundation.
1999, Edward Clarence Dyason Universitas 21 Fellowship. Awarded by The
University of Melbourne to undertake a 6-month program of research at the
University of British Columbia and Glasgow University.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Youth Substance Abuse Service, Melbourne, Board of Directors

Australian Council for Educational Research: Standing Committee on Research
Juvenile Justice and Youth Services Advisory Group, Melbourne
Australian Youth Transitions Clearinghouse, Board of Directors
Elwood School Council: Community Representative
Editor, Melbourne Studies in Education (1997 – 2001)
Vice President (Oceania), International Sociological Association, Research Section 34
(Youth Research). 1998 – 2005.
Editorial boards of refereed Journals:
Young, International Youth Research Journal
Journal of Youth Studies
Children, Youth and Environments

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RECENT KEYNOTE AND INVITED ADDRESSES

Young people’s wellbeing and learning, Northern Metropolitan Education Region,

Professional Development Day, January 28th 2009. Darebin.
Researching the Glocal Generation, International Conference on Youth Research
2008 (Malaysia), 15-18 December 2008, Putrajaya, Malaysia.
Leadership and promoting young people’s wellbeing, Beijing Normal University and
London Institute of Education, Beijing 11 November 2008.
Challenges for education: setting the context of young people’s lives, Brotherhood of
St Laurence, Melbourne, 29 October 2008.
Changing patterns of life and education, Princes Hill Secondary College, Melbourne,
6 October 2008.
Young people, wellbeing and social change Trondheim University, Norway, 16
September 2008.
What works with Generation Y? Stonington City Council AGM, Melbourne, 24 June
2008.
Attracting and retaining Generation Y in workplaces. Breakfast meeting of Slade
Group Melbourne, 22 May and 29 May 2008..
Continuity and Change in Young People’s experiences of work, National Institute of
Labour Studies, Flinders University. 16 October 2007.
Learners of the Future: what do teachers and parents need to know? Catholic
Education Office, Tacey Centre, 28 August 2007.
New youth and educational responses, Catholic Regional College Professional
Development Day, Melbourne, 17 August 2007.
Flashpoints and Signposts: towards young people’s wellbeing. Southern Metropolitan
regional Conference, Caulfield, 1 August 2007.
Addressing young people’s Learning Needs, Chisholm Institute of Tafe Board
meeting, 45 July 2007.
Researching and publishing in Academia today, Sociology Health Conference,
Beechworth 23 June 2007.
Learners of the future: what do we need to know? Regional Deans Conference,
Melbourne. 6 June 2007.
Generation, Youth and Social Change. Seminar to Sociology Department, Macquarie
University, Sydney. 24 May 2007.
Student engagement in post-compulsory education and training. University of South
Australia. Workshop: student engagement with post-compulsory education and
training: meaning making in a context of blurred boundaries and shifting policy and
work contexts funded by Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.24 May 2007.
New Patterns of Transition in Education. International Council for National Youth
Policy conference, Vienna, 11 – 14 December, Vienna 2006.
Young people, ICTs and Wellbeing in Australia. Australia Korea Foundation
Conference: Digital Natives in Australia and Korea. Melbourne, 20 Nov. 2006.
Reclaiming ‘Youth’ from the margins. Reclaiming the Margins: Youth, Research,
Activism, University of Western Sydney, 3-4 November 2006.
Response to Burbules. Rethinking the Virtual Conference, Deakin University, 15
June, 2006.
Schools and social change, Junior School Heads Association of Australia, Caulfield,
17 May, 2006.

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Young people, transitions and change: an overview. Central Ranges Local Learning
and Employment Network Annual General Meeting, Flowerdale, 15 May 2006.
Generation, Identity and Class, Children and Young People as Social Actors,
University of Otago, New Zealand, 8 – 9 Feb. 2006.
Negotiating Uncertainty: creating new adulthoods in Australia, International
conference “Youth: an uncertain future? To be young in the new century: an
international perspective, 18 – 19 February, Salerno, Italy (2005)
Young people and wellbeing, St Aloysius College School Review Conference,
Melbourne, 30 July (2004)
Young people’s transitions today, At Risk Young people in VET conference, Equity
Research Centre, Melbourne, 23 June (2004)
Young people’s wellbeing and risk society, Human Potential Project Conference,
Melbourne, 26 May (2004)
The big picture: young people’s life patterns and social change, National Conference
of Science, Mathematics and Environmental Education, Melbourne, 20 May (2004)
Young people, social change and new careers, South East Local Learning and
Employment Network Annual Conference, 18 March (2004)
Enhancing post-compulsory Education and Training Outcomes – Reflections on the
Life-Patterns study, 1991-2004, Eastern Metropolitan Region VET Forum, 15 March
(2004)
Becoming Adult in the 2000s: new life patterns and new challenges, Public Lecture,
Latrobe University, Wodonga Campus, 27 November, (2003)
Reflections on the Life-Patterns study, Research Workshop, Deakin University,
Toorak campus, 24 November, (2003)
Professional development for student wellbeing, Schools as Core Social Centres
Conference, Catholic Education Office and VicHealth, 20 November, (2003)
Young people and social change, Not Another Youth Conference: Foundations for
Reform, Melbourne, 20 November, (2003)
Educational Reform in a post-industrial society: a perspective from youth research,
Inaugural Professional lecture. The University of Melbourne, 17 November, (2003)
Life-Patterns and transitions, Youth Transitions Conference, University of
Canterbury, New Zealand, 11- 12 November, (2003)
New Life Patterns, new working patterns, The Future of Work Conference, Public
Sector Association of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, 4-7 November, (2003)
Australian Youth, civics and citizenship, with Anita Harris, European Science
Foundation/Standing Committee for the Social Sciences Exploratory Workshop on
New Forms of Citizenship and Young Generations, Strasbourg, France, 2-4 October,
(2003)
The implications of the Life-Patterns study for longitudinal research, European
Science Foundation/Standing Committee for the Social Sciences Exploratory
Workshop on New Forms of Citizenship and Young Generations, Strasbourg, France,
2-4 October, (2003)
Young people’s Life Patterns: implications for education, Incorporated Association of
Registered Teachers of Victoria Seminar, Melbourne Grammar School, 31 July,
(2003)
Is there evidence of a ‘new adulthood’? Reflections from the Life-Patterns project,
Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, 19 June, (2003)
Youth, Transition, Risk and Social Exclusion, International Conference on
Marginalisation and Social Exclusion, Alesund, Norway, 26 May (2003)
Who are the Young People We Work With? Southern Metropolitan Region Later

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Years of Schooling Conference, Melbourne, 3 April, (2003)
Young People and Social Change: Implications for Education, Department of
Education, Barwon Southwest Region Well-being and Drug Education Conference, 2
April (2003)
Social Change and Youth Health: Shaping New Research Agendas, Victorian Health
Promotion Foundation Symposium, Darebin Arts Centre, 27 March (2003)

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