Roger Holdsworth is a Senior Research Associate at the Australian Youth Research Centre. He was a secondary teacher for many years, has extensive experience in the community youth affairs sector, and is particularly interested in the development of programs to support active youth and student participation, particularly in schools.

Roger is also editor and publisher of Connect (the newsletter of youth participation in education - since late 1979) as well as the author of several Centre reports and papers. (See Connect information at: www.geocities.com/rogermh)

Roger is also the presenter of the Global Village, a worldwide/folk/acoustic music program on Melbourne community radio station PBS-FM between 8-10 pm Sunday evenings.

BSC (Hons) DipEd BEd

Active Student and Youth Participation
Civics and Citizenship Education

Editor and Publisher:

Connect: supporting student participation, 1979-present

Books (editor):

Student Councils and Beyond (Students as Effective Participants in Education Decision-Making), Connect Publication, 2005
Student Action Teams (Implementing Productive Practices in Primary and Secondary Classrooms), Connect Publications, 2006

Monographs and Reports:

Civic Engagement and Young People (2007) (with Helen Stokes, Michelle Blanchard and Nadia Mohamed), Australian Youth Research Centre Research Report 28, The University of Melbourne

Doing Positive Things: 'You have to go out and do it' – Outcomes for participants in Youth Development Programs: A Report of a Three-Year Longitudinal Study (2005) (with Murray Lake, Kathleen Stacey and John Stafford), Canberra: Australian Government Youth Bureau, Department of Family and Community Service

Real Learning, Real Futures Revisited (2005) Australian Youth Research Centre Working Paper 25, The University of Melbourne

Challenge Ya!: An Evaluation (2005) Report for The Foundation for Young Australians

Discovering Democracy in Action: Implementing the Program (ed: 2004) Melbourne: Victorian Department of Education and Training and Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Technology

Student Action Teams: Learning in the Community: A 'How To' Manual (2004 - revised edition) (with John Stafford, Helen Stokes, Debra Tyler and Helen Cahill) Melbourne: Victorian Department of Education and Training

Real Learning, Real Futures: A Brief Evaluation and Reflection (2004) Sydney: Dusseldorp Skills Forum

Current:

'What Works Australia': editing series of books for The Foundation for Young Australians

SRC Regional Conferences: a series of 18 regional student conferences throughout Victoria (May-June, 2008)

Lifetime member of the Youth Affairs Council of Victoria (YACVic)
Supporter of the VicSRC: Victorian Student Representative Council