Prof. Kate Tilleczek holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Youth, Education & Global Good in the Faculty of Education at York University. She is a Full Professor, member of Graduate Faculty (Education and Global Health) and Director (and founder in 2009) the the Young Lives Research Laboratory (YLRL), which employs intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches to research with, by and for young people and their communities. The objective is to work alongside youth and their communities to better understand and record how they navigate wellbeing amidst pressing planetary and social challenges such as ecological degradation, climate change and digital technologies. Prof. Tilleczek and her team have developed unique, youth-centred research processes and evidence and put them to use in co-developing education with and for young people . Her current projects include 1) Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing, 2) Youth in the Digital Age, and 3) Co-Developing Canada’s Digital Wellbeing Hub. Working across countries, communities, and cultures with socio-ecological models of youth and planetary wellbeing, Prof. Tilleczek’s research garners new understanding about the wellbeing of young people and how to re-design education and policy alongside them.
Research keywords:
youth, wellbeing, education, planetary health, digital media, climate change, qualitative participatory research
Themes | Planetary Health |
Status | Active |
Events |
Rooted and Rising: Co-Developing Experiential Education for Climate Leadership for Youth and Planetary Health | April 12, 2024 [Postponed] Rooted and Rising: Co-Developing Experiential Education for Climate Leadership for Youth and Planetary Health | January 22, 2024 Global Health Design: The Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing | November 16, 2022 |
Related Work |
Rooted and Rising Lab | Project
Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing | Project Planetary Health Film Lab | Education, Project, Research |
Updates |
Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing Present Results at the Society for Applied Anthropology Conference | May 13, 2024
Planetary Health Film Lab Reports from COP28 and Belize | January 10, 2024 Update – Training and Research for the Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing Begins in Belize | June 20, 2023 Hot Off the Press – Youth, Education and Wellbeing in the Americas | November 4, 2022 |
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