Just had the pleasure of presenting my work on digital inequality at #isa18wcs in Toronto - big thanks to #bradyjay for the great play-by-play! x.com/bradyjay/statu…

Triple J's survey of 11,000 Aussies aged 18-29 finds majority are in debt (non-HECS/HELP), w/ few savings, & believe mental health & housing affordability are the most pressing issues they face. Plus interesting questions about drugs, relationships & online behaviours.

Good discussion w/ @HookwayNicholas about the reasons for (& implications of) young Australians living at home longer. How is the trend reshaping their relationships with parents? Great to see a focus on the potential positives of such arrangements for a change.

People with disability have the right to a stand-alone & targeted Royal Commission that will interrogate and address the full scope of violence, abuse and neglect of people with disability - Joint statement by Contract deployment agency合约代理部署/社交媒体运营(Tabi 🟧 ) & DPO Australia Read full statement cyda.org.au

Are you more cynical than the typical Australian? abc.net.au/news/2018-09-2…

Young Aussies tend to 'inherit' support for the Australian Greens from their parents much like they do for the older & more established major parties - but there's a catch - it is more unstable over time. Our new paper (w/ Bruce Tranter) just came out! tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

New paper: "Young adulthood in uncertain times: The association between sense of personal control and employment, education, personal relationships and health", by Chesters, Smith, et al. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/yHykzZE…

Work for Airtasker? Uber? Deliveroo? Fill in this 5 minute survey about working in the gig economy Australian Unions Unions NSW AWU - Australian Workers' Union TWU Australia Sally McManus Michele O'Neil Victorian Trades Hall Council Fair Gig For All

Politicians ignore the young at their peril smh.com.au/politics/feder…

POSTDOC OPP: Excited to announce a 3-year #sociology #postdoc job working on our longitudinal mixed-methods Life Patterns project. Great research team led by Prof Johanna Wyn (w/ Cahill, Professor Dan Woodman Chesters, Cuervo, Fu, Cook & Leccardi). Please RT! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/898…

Young people care deeply about politics (even if they can't get excited about the election) abc.net.au/life/do-young-… Grace Jennings-Edquist Monash Politics & IR Monash Arts Monash University #auspol

We're looking for a great quantitative researcher to join us on the Social Futures and Life Pathways ('Our Lives') project, details below but feel free to DM me for more info! seek.com.au/job/41289716?t…

How much time do you spend in paid work? On childcare, caring for other family members or people living with a disability? Has this changed since #COVID19Aus? Please complete this short time use survey on work + care in the time #COVID19: unimelb.edu.au/covidcare (PLS RT!)

Our new article on Australian non-partisans is out! Co-authored with University of Tasmania Prof. Bruce Tranter 😊 Australian Catholic University #auspol

This data from the young QLD'ers we have tracked since 2006 (ourlives.org.au) also indicates young women fared worse psychologically than young men during national COVID restrictions earlier this year & underscores importance of #jobseeker & #jobkeeper for youth wellbeing

Ok-deep breaths. I wrote a deeply personal piece re some of my experiences/observations of family violence. Sharing such stories can be part of the collaborative effort to denounce violence against women, girls & people of all genders. Monash Arts Pls RT lens.monash.edu/2021/04/28/138…

Delighted to be a part of this very first publication by Nathan McMillan, which examines what happiness means to young Australians in the long-running Our Lives cohort study. And you'll be happy to know it's free to read 😀

Any Aus based quants-trained folk out there looking for a few months part time casual research assistant work? We’ve some super interesting data about young people and family violence needing secondary analysis… if you want to know more - Hit me up! #research #job #surveydata

In 2020 & 2021, we did some research with APS Reform. 1) Research with young adults and their experience with public services, within a youth transitions context. 2) Research with then-unreleased data about citizen's satisfaction with services, within a life event framing.

Massive congrats to Dr. Catherine Waite Cathy Waite who graduated yesterday! Findings from her outstanding thesis on rural young people & place making are already in print here: rdcu.be/OW9L (& no doubt more articles to follow!) Account Closed TASA