In Aotearoa, young people spend around 190 days at school each year, making it a critically important developmental context for promoting wellbeing. Schools cannot be focused on academic achievement and attendance alone. Nor can they, in the words of one young person,...
Peer friendships and caring social connections with teachers, family and other community members are centrally important to students’ wellbeing and experiences of school. The latest report from Our Voices – Social Connections: In-person and Online –...
There is no universal experience of school, and no one is likely to have an easy time at school all of the time. Young people in Aotearoa face many challenges in and out of school, and there is significant variation in what those challenges are and who experiences...
Seeing friends, learning, preparing for the future and fulfilling parent expectations are some of the key motivators for young people to attend school according to young people in Growing Up in New Zealand who have taken part in the Our Voices study. Understanding the...
In partnership with Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum, the Our Voices team has developed a free, interactive exhibition that offers visitors to the Museum an opportunity to learn about the Our Voices project, and connect with the hopes, concerns,...
Understanding how complex lives and experiences change and evolve across the lifespan is the broad focus of the Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies (SLLS), which held its annual conference in Essex, UK in September. Now in its 13th year, this year’s theme...
