What’s the Striking Voices project?
Striking Voices is an Australian Research Council-funded research project (DE220100103; 2022-2025) with young people (10-23 years old) involved in climate justice activism. Find us on Striking Voices | Linktree and at @striking_voices (Instagram).
Who is behind Striking Voices?
We’re a team of young climate justice organisers (Natasha Abhayawickrama, Sophie Chiew, Netta Maiava and Dani Villafana) and an education researcher (Eve Mayes). Ruchira Talukdar is the project team’s mentor, and Rachel Finneran is supporting the project administration. The project has been co-designed by the research team in consultation with the project’s First Nations/ First Peoples Critical Reference Group and Stakeholder Reference Group. The website banner, project logo and cartoons on this website were created by @jessharwoodart.
Why do this project?
This project is hoping to amplify young people’s stories of climate justice action, bringing together stories of young people across a range of places, communities, backgrounds and grassroots groups. The project is drawing attention to why many young people are taking action towards climate justice, the different ways of taking action, the highs and lows of taking action, and how schools are responding to young people’s concerns about climate change and justice. Those involved in this project have the opportunity to define ‘climate action’ and ‘climate justice’ in their own terms, as they understand and practice it.
What will the project produce?
We hope to create a number of outputs that are of interest and benefit to the public, to those involved in climate mobilising, and to schools, including:
- A paperback book amplifying young people’s stories of action (with stories and photographs)
- Video/visual and written resources, developed in consultation with climate justice groups
- A teaching and learning framework for climate justice across subject areas for secondary schools.
