Professor Philippa Collin is co-founder and co-Director of the Young and Resilient Research Centre at Western Sydney University. An internationally recognised expert in youth political participation and citizenship she will have carriage of the ethnographic aspects of the study. She has led more than 30 large-scale, youth-centred and collaborative projects including as Research Stream Leader for the Wellbeing, Health and Youth NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence (2019-2023), Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre (2011-16) and as Managing Director of Research and Policy for Reachout.com (2008 - 2010) .

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