The latest Our Voices reports have been gaining attention around the country, as the importance of education and school attendance remains topical in the news. Dr. Emma Marks, a research fellow in the Our Voices team, gave an in-depth interview to Kathryn Ryan on...
With an acceptance rate of ~20%, it is a real testament to Bo Pang and the quality of his research that he was selected to present at the highly ranked European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2025 conference in Lucca, Italy. Bo’s research was focused on...
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...
