2015

Andrew Hill of the University of South California has found that opposite gender friends have a negative impact on academic achievement. His research showed that students aged 16 and over who had higher numbers of opposite gender friends had lower grades across all subjects (Hill, 2015, p. 148) and were less…

Australia’s largest ever survey of youth mental health, The Mental Health of Children and Adolescents: Report on the second Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing (2015), reveals that rates of mental health disorders among young Australians have remained stable for the past fifteen years, with 14%…

According to research released by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research in its 2015 HILDA survey, there have been dramatic changes in educational and labour market outcomes for women over the past fifty years. Today’s young women are substantially more likely than older women to have finished…

An American survey investigated the issue of parents sharing information about their children on the internet (known as ‘sharenting’), finding that 74% of parents feel that another parent has shared too much information online (University of Michigan, 2015b). The National Poll on Children’s Health, conducted by the University of Michigan’s…

Research by the Harvard Business School Gender Initiative shows that mothers who return to work before their daughters turn 14 years old have a positive effect on their daughters’ future income and job prospects. Daughters of working women were found to occupy higher-level positions and earn more than their peers…

While there is much talk of the need to combat domestic violence against women and children, there is another area of gender-based violence that particularly affects girls and young women: dating violence, sexting and revenge porn. In this context, education on respectful relationships — which aims to address the drivers…

Renowned expert, Michael Osborne, Associate Professor in Machine Learning at Oxford University, visited Australia in early 2015 warning that the rapidly increasing use of computers and robots in the workplace will dramatically change the face of employment in the future. In fact, in a 2013 paper, Osborne and his Oxford…

In 2015, Oxford University launched a free downloadable guide for parents and carers coping with the difficult situation of their child’s self-harm. Based on in-depth research with parents showing that they often feel isolated and don’t know where to turn, the guide contains topics including understanding self-harm, managing injuries, and looking after parents’…

Mission Australian’s annual youth survey has revealed that half of the 19,000 young people aged 15-19 who participated in this year’s survey reported barriers to achieving their goals. The top three barriers were academic ability, financial difficulty and a lack of jobs. Catherine Yeomans, CEO of Mission Australia, said that…