Our interdisciplinary impact focused research explores how young people are valued, understood and engaged in society and the economy.
In the context of this overarching theme, our areas of interest and study include: innovation, entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, future of work, future of learning, youth engagement, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, intergenerational collaboration, youth service, volunteerism & civic and democratic engagement.
Academic publications
- Social impact measurement: A systematic literature review and future research directions (World - 2023)
- Wired for innovation: Valuing the unique innovation abilities of emerging adults (Emerging Adulthood - 2018)
- Youth-led social change: Topics, engagement types, organizational types, strategies, and impacts (Futures - 2015)
- Youth-led social entrepreneurship: enabling social change (International Review of Entrepreneurship - 2010)
Non-academic reports
- [Infographic] Collaborative writing: Why is it needed for young researchers?
- Facing challenges, finding opportunity: Young people in Canada navigating a new employment reality (2024)
- Build power, share power, leverage power: How foundations can best support youth-led organizations and movements to amplify their impact (2023)
- Generation Z in Canada (The Canadian Encyclopedia - 2020)
- Are we making a difference? Understanding leading practices in youth volunteerism & service (Employment and Social Development Canada - 2018)
- Developing Canadian youth as leaders and stewards of the environment (The Lawson Foundation - 2017)