Newcastle Youth Studies Centre

21/01/2026

Congratulations to our new research team member Dr Niamh White on her PhD conferral and becoming a newly minted Dr! We look forward to working with you on young people and fintech over the next few years

08/10/2025

Julia Cook on unorthodox approaches young people are using to buy their first home

While these strategies work for some people, they are not necessarily possible for most aspiring first home owners.

06/10/2025

NYSC online seminar on ‘The Materialities of Inequality: Mould, Acid and Glitter’ featuring Beckie Coleman, Bev Skeggs, Imogen Tyler and Roger Burrows is on tomorrow night, Wednesday October 8 at 7pm (9am London time).

How Stuff Matters

24/09/2025

Hope to see you at today’s seminar on The Political Dynamics of the Weird World of Wellness at 3pm, please see details at the below

Explore how contemporary discourses of wellness are aligned with the enactments and dynamics of everyday politics, and their consequences.

18/09/2025

Next Wednesday at 3pm AEST we have our third NYSC online seminar taking place on zoom.

The topic is The Political Dynamics of the Weird World of Wellness featuring Naomi Smith (University of Sunshine Coast), Natalie Ann Hendry (University of Melbourne) and Matt Wade (La Trobe University).

You can register at our Eventbrite.

Explore how contemporary discourses of wellness are aligned with the enactments and dynamics of everyday politics, and their consequences.

18/08/2025

Please join us for the second in our Newcastle Youth Studies Centre Series Online seminar on Wednesday August 20 at 3pm to hear all about 'New Possibilities: Young People and Democratic Renewal', featuring Philippa Collin, Judith Bessant, Luigi Di Martino, Rob Watts and Varsha Yajman.

This panel shares some of the findings of the New Possibilities project

05/08/2025

No silver bullet: why social media ban is full of holes
https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/9032284/social-media-bans-fail-to-protect-under-16s/

29/07/2025

Tomorrow at 3pm AEST we have our first NYSC online seminar taking place on zoom.
The topic is Automating Everyday Life and we are joined by Nicholas Carah and Lauren Hayden, Joel Stern, and Thao Phan and Fabian Offert.
You can register at Eventbrite for it here

As everyday life has been digitalised, more and more of the things we do, like and consume are being automated.

28/07/2025

Check out Filtered Reality, a short film that discusses aspects of the ARC DP project led by Julia Coffey ‬on how photo editing apps, tools and filters affect young people’s self-image.

New Research Shows the Hidden Cost of Perfect Images in a Filtered World New findings from research led by the University of Newcastle has uncovered how phot...

24/07/2025

Our 'Automating Everyday Life' online seminar is less than a week away, 3pm Wednesday July 30.
Get you Eventbrite ticket here:

As everyday life has been digitalised, more and more of the things we do, like and consume are being automated.

17/07/2025

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