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PUBLICATIONS

  • Gordon, F. (2024). Climate Harm and Future Generations: Young People Pushing for Australian Law to Change with the Times. Court of Conscience, (18), 47-52. https://issuu.com/unswlawsociety/docs/court_of_conscience_-_issue_18_2024/60

  • Di Martino, L. (2024). Strategic authenticity in the promotion of a protest action on social media: the case of the School Strike 4 Climate in Sydney. Communication Research and Practice, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2024.2417140

  • Rodgers, N. & Gordon, F. (in press) Courtroom and Other Tales of the Climate Generation, in the forthcoming collection - 'The Public Child: Media Power, Strategic Silencing and Children’s Rights in Australia', Palgrave’s Childhood and Youth Studies Series.

  • Watts, R., Bessant, J., Catanzaro, M., Collin, P., Jackson, S., (2024) The Political in the Anthropocene: Reflections on a Ministerial Veto, 2021. Australian Journal of Environmental Education. 2024:1-14. https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2023.37

  • Catanzaro, M., (2023) Understanding Young People’s visual politics: Making young people’s participation (more) visible, in J. Bessant, P. Collin, P. O’keefe (eds) Research handbook for the Sociology of Youth, Edward Elgar Publishing.

  • Bessant, J., Collin, P., and Watts, R., L., (2023), ‘Blah, Blah, Blah … [not] business as usual’: politics through the lens of young female climate leaders, Australian Journal of Political Science. https://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2023.2224239

  • Arnot G, Pitt H, McCarthy S, Collin P, Thomas S. Supporting young people as genuine political actors in climate decision-making. Health Promot Int. 2023 Dec 1;38(6):daad148. doi: 10.1093/heapro/daad148. PMID: 37952200.

  • Collin, P., & Gordon, F. (2023). Children and young people contesting citizenship. In J. Wyn, H. Cahill, & H. Cuervo (Eds.), Handbook of Children and Youth Studies (pp. 1-14). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-96-3_80-1

  • Bessant, J., Collin, P., Watts, R. (forthcoming). A Revisionist Account the Democratic Crisis and Youth Participation. In Bessant, J., Collin, P., O’Keeffe, P. (Eds.), Research Handbook for the Sociology of Youth, Edward Elgar Publishing.

  • Tasker, S. & Collin, P. (2022) Young people shaping wise futures. in Joy Higgs, Dr Diane Tasker, Jan Orrell, and Dr Narelle Patton (eds) Shaping Wise Futures, Brill Publishing, Leiden: pp 396-415.

  • Catanzaro, M. & Collin, P. (2021) “Kids Communicating Climate Change: Learning from the Visual Language of the SchoolStrike4Climate Protests” in Educational Review special issue - Youth Activism, Climate Change and Education (eds. Frances Howard, Ian Gimpsey, David Rousell). https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2021.1925875

  • Collin, P., Bessant, J., and Watts, R., L., (forthcoming). When We Can’t vote, Action Is All We Have’:  Student Climate Politics, Rights and Justice. In McLeod, J., Wright K.  (Eds.), Childhood, Youth and Activism: Global Perspectives on Demands for Rights and Justice from Young People and their Advocates, Emerald.

  • Collin, P. & Matthews, I. (2021) ‘School Strike for Climate: Australian Students Renegotiating Citizenship’ in Bessant, J., Mejia Mesinas, A., and  Pickard, S. (eds). 2020. When Students Protest. (Vol 1): Secondary School students. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield: 125 - 144.

  • Collin, P, Matthews, I. Churchill, B.& Jackson, S. (2020) in Joost de Moor, Katrin Uba, Mattias Wahlström, Magnus Wennerhag and Michiel De Vydt (Eds.) Protest for a future II: Composition, mobilization and motives of the participants in Fridays For Future climate protests on 20-27 September, 2019, in 19 cities around the world. Retrieved from: https://osf.io/3hcxs/

  • Rodgers, N. and Gordon, F. (in press) ‘Courtroom and Other Tales of the Climate Generation’, in the forthcoming collection - 'The Public Child: Media Power, Strategic Silencing and Children’s Rights in Australia', Palgrave’s Childhood and Youth Studies Series.

Media Coverage 

  • Listen to The Minefield podcast episode:  Can young people stay politically engaged without becoming disillusioned with democracy? 

  • Read a Conversation article titled: Disappointment and disbelief’ after Morrison government vetoes research into student climate activism. 

  • Listen to the Policy Forum Podcast here: Who decides? The push to lower Australia’s voting age. 

  • Read a Western Sydney University article titled: Emerging Voices for the Planet: How young people are re-energising democracy with their fight for climate justice 

  • Watch the Diplomacy Training Programme, Children's Rights Steam talk about 'Climate Change and Children's Rights' YouTube video. 

  • Listen to the Centre for Crime, Law and Justice, UNSW Law podcast series: 'Talking About Justice'. 

  • Read an Australian Book Review article titled: 'The education minister’s jackboots: Political interference in research funding'. 

  • Read a Conversation article titled: 'At 16, Australians can drive, work and apply for the army – so why can’t they vote?' 

  • Read a The Age article titled: We need to listen to young people on tackling COVID.' 

  • Youth, climate change and visual language of protest, at the Powerhouse Late: Climate event. This event brought together an interdisciplinary and intergenerational audience on 27 July 2023 to understand the impact of young people’s efforts in this space. Curated by Brianna Barwise and Michelle Catanzaro. Watch the video. 

  • Art of Climate Change Exhibition held on September, 3 2024 at the Greenhouse Climate Tech Hub in Sydney's CBD. The exhibition showcased 50 pieces of work communicating the urgent need for action on climate change. The works were created by Western Sydney University students and the event was hosted by the Young and Resilient Research Centre and Edge Impact who are a global, sustainability consultancy company. 

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