The Monash Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice (CYPEP) is a multidisciplinary research centre based in the Faculty of Education at Monash University.
By focusing on issues that affect young people, and on developing policy and educational interventions to address youth disadvantage, CYPEP aims to identify the challenges to, and opportunities for, improved life outcomes for young people today and throughout their lives. Our vision is for education that creates lifelong and life-wide opportunities for young people and enables them to thrive.
Our mission is to connect youth research to policy and practice. We do this by working with policymakers, educators and youth- focused organizations on research that addresses emerging needs and respects and includes young people. Working at the nexus of young people and policy, we raise awareness of the challenges faced by young people today and explore how education can harness the capacity of young people to contribute to buildingthriving communities.
This report summarises five years (2021–2025) of data tracking how Australians aged 18–24 experienced the aftermath of the COVID‑19 pandemic across education, work, wellbeing, relationships, and civic participation.