This was the second episode in a two-part series with host Nadia Rossi, Dr Ben Lohmeyer, and me. We continued sharing findings from our co-designed study on loneliness in young people and its relationship to bullying, discussing what the research means for young people's wellbeing and what families, schools, and practitioners can actually do about it. The conversation covered how schools can create safe spaces, what young people said would help them when experiencing loneline

Since July 2025, I have been serving as Co-Lead for ReachOut Australia in the development of the organisation's first-ever Youth Engagement Framework. ReachOut is one of Australia's largest national mental health support services, and this framework marks a real milestone, bringing together all areas of the organisation around a shared set of principles for safe, meaningful, and impactful youth engagement. My role centres on listening. Bringing together diverse voices, from s

SAYF members took the stage alongside Dr Ben Lohmeyer at the Department for Education's Wellbeing Leaders' Summit, speaking to hundreds of educators about the importance of authentic youth voice in wellbeing policy. Young speakers shared lived experiences of school, inspiring educators to reimagine what student leadership and wellbeing support can actually look like. Photo credit: Department for Education SA

I was invited to speak at Flinders University's Impact of Giving donor afternoon tea, hosted by President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Colin Stirling. Alongside Dr Ben Lohmeyer, I presented our co-design research approach on youth loneliness to donors who had supported the work through philanthropic funding.

Acting for SAYF, I served as Associate Investigator on the Trauma Aware School Villages project, coordinating the SAYF group as an oversight committee for this national study on trauma-informed care in primary schools. The project co-designed a whole-of-school community approach to preventing and responding to childhood trauma, working with students, parents, educators, and schools. It aims to inform a national framework for trauma-informed programs in Australian schools.

From August to November 2023, I led a SAYF team researching young people's awareness of coercive control. We coordinated surveys and interviews that informed Stage 3 of the See the Signs campaign, and I presented the findings to policymakers and advisory boards across the sector.

From August 2023 to January 2024, I led research on youth environmental leadership for Green Adelaide, producing a report with recommendations. Understanding how young people in South Australia were already showing up for the environment and what was getting in their way felt important.

I led SAYF's involvement in this partnership, acting as a peer researcher in 2024 and supporting additional peer researchers across 2025. I co-authored our first peer-reviewed paper, published in Qualitative Research when I was 18 years old. Over three years, SAYF has been embedded across every stage of this study on loneliness among young people, from shaping the questions to leading focus groups to contributing to the written outputs. Photo credit: Flinders University

I participated in a research interview with the Climate and Sustainability Policy Research Group as part of a project on women's socio-political activism, the future of sustainable development goals, and civil society post-COVID-19. The project engaged Australian and Indonesian women intellectuals, community, and public sector leaders, and I contributed the young South Australian perspective to a conversation about what comes next for gender equity and climate justice.