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Seminar series: linking research, policy and practice

Research and evaluation in New Zealand, and overseas, is the focus of the Ministry of Youth Development Seminar Series.

The Ministry aims to:

• showcase the latest in research, good practice and thinking around young people
• encourage discussion and develop best practice in the understanding and use of youth research and evaluation.

• Identity and Indicators: Driving behaviour and outcomes for young people - 2 May

• New Zealand's National Youth Health and Wellbeing Surveys: The cross roads of research and policy - by Professor David M Fergusson
• The Christchurch Health and Development Study - Some Key Findings Related to Young People by Professor David M Fergusson
• Violence and young people by Terry (Theresa) Fleming
• Youth in Focus: Key Findings from Recent Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Young People by Chris Ryan and Anastasia Sartbayeva
• Youth Participation and Sexual Health: learning from Brook by Simon Blake, Chief Executive of Brook
• The health and wellbeing of young people: challenging orthodoxies and setting new directions by Richard Eckersley
• What skills do parents need to survive living with their adolescents? - Dr Sue Bagshaw, Director of 198 Youth Centre, Christchurch
• Hormones raging in immature minds: how the mismatch between biology and society has led to the problems of adolescence - Prof Peter D Gluckman, Professor of Paediatric and Perinatal Biology
• What do recent South Australian research findings tell us about the health and wellbeing of children and youth? - Associate Professor Colin MacDougall, Deputy Head (Research), Department of Public Health, School of Medicine (Flinders University, Adelaide)
• Youth and the Internet: the positives, the challenges and New Zealand developments - Dr. Jo Kleeb, Research Fellow, Youth Connectedness Project, Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families, Victoria University of Wellington
• What longitudinal studies can tell us about the life chances of New Zealand youth - Professor Richie Poulton, Director, Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit, Department of Preventive & Social Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine
• The Changing Nature of the School-to-Work Transition in OECD Countries - John P. Martin, Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD
• How to Raise Young Resilient Young People - Dr Ken Ginsburg, renowned paediatrician specialising in adolescent medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• Promotion of Social Inclusion in Secondary Schools: Effects on Adolescent Health -Professor George Patton and Professor Susan Sawyer from the University of Melbourne
• Te Kotahitanga Project -  Professor Russell Bishop, Professor and Assistant Dean of Maori Education, University of Waikato
• Social Marketing for Young People - Dr Richard Griffiths, Research and Insights Manager at 18 Ltd
  
• Identity, Acculturation and Adaption in Migrant Youth - Professor Colleen Ward
  
• Climate Change and Young People - Professor Jonathan Boston, Rachel Tallon and Eva Lawrence.
• Youth political participation - what's the issue? Professor Jack Vowles, Dr Helena Catt and Anthony Hass.
  
• Improving outcomes for young people - Kaye McLaren on what are effective interventions with young people and how you can ensure the services you provide are making a difference.
• The many faces of New Zealand young people - Dr Peter Watson and Dr Simon Denny (Adolescent Health Research Group of the University of Auckland) on the Youth2000 research project, the national youth health and wellbeing survey
• Current and future UK/EU policy initiatives that impact on young people - Tom Wylie, CEO The National Youth Agency
  

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