30 April 2025 | 3:00-4:30PM

Join AYAC for our second National Youth Practitioner’s Network (NYPN) meeting. This meeting is a workshop on young people’s civic engagement and political participation with guest speaker Philippa Collin.

As low civics test scores cause consternation about youth readiness to participate in the democratic process, AYAC and Professor Philippa Collin facilitate a discussion and reflection on how practitioners in the youth sector can best pursue a strength-based response.  

Guest Speaker Bio:

Philippa (Pip) Collin is Professorial Research Fellow at Western Sydney University and Co-Director of the Young and Resilient Research Centre. She mainly investigates young people’s relationship to democracy; the role of the digital for youth citizenship, health and wellbeing; and methodological innovations in transdisciplinary, youth-centred and intergenerational research. Her purpose is to catalyse research that contributes meaningfully to positive social change and planetary justice.