In this episode, interviewer Mervi Kaukko speaks with Kristin Reimer about her work with students from the Monash Access Program (MAP), an alternative entry into university. The students in MAP have had educational disadvantage in their lives and offer their perspectives into education's role. Kristin talks about the potential for formal education to provide us with experiences of manageability, comprehensibility and meaningfulness in order to create a world where we are able to thrive individually and collectively.

For more, read Chapter 12: Education that makes life manageable, comprehensible and meaningful: Experiences of the Monash Access Program, a university alternative entry pathway by Kristin Reimer

In this episode, interviewer Sally Windsor speaks with Leila Khulud about the New South Wales Special Religious Education (SRE) as an opportunity for students of faith backgrounds to foster their religious identity and spiritual health. Leila is currently working on research that introduces an online SRE intervention for Muslim youth. In the conversation, online SRE is discussed as a large-scale, cost-effective, and practical educational measure for enhancing the wellbeing of adolescents of faith backgrounds in public schools.

For more, read Chapter 11: New pathway to adolescent wellbeing: The case for online Special Religious Education in public schools by Leila Khaled

In this episode, interviewer Mervi Kaukko speaks with Gørill Warvik Vedeler about the chapter she co-wrote with Marete Saus, Tatiana Wara, Hilde Sollid and Astrid Strandbu about the lives of young people in an Arctic region of Norway.

The conversation highlights the reasons that young people have chosen to live in this region, rather than focusing on why young people are choosing to leave. It also reveals the young people's unique perspective on how to live sustainably and well in the Arctic region.

For more, read Chapter 10: Practices of living well among youth in an Arctic region by Gørill Warvik Vedeler, Marete Saus, Tatiana Wara, Hilde Sollid and Astrid Strandbu