Projects

The Victorian Health Promotion Foundation has recently funded an extension of the ARC Project: Physical Activity and Physical Culture in the Lives of Young People. This extension will be called "Rural and Regio nal Youth: the meanings and experience of participation in physical culture - Victorian Studies". Under this extension, the current research sites in Footscray and Rushworth would each consolidate the youth cohort at around 18 young people and further develop parent and community data collection. A third site will be established in Shepparton. It is anticipated that such a large sample will help generalise findings in ways that will have application to the broader community. The addition of the Shepparton site will provide an opportunity to collect data about Koori participation in physical activity and enhance our understandings of culturally diverse communities.

Contact: yrc-info@unimelb.edu.au