Few studies have investigated the role that housing plays in a child's emotional and physical safety and well-being. Children growing up in the slums of Nairobi represent their everyday lives through participatory visual methods.

Aboriginal youth "take action" through the the medium of graffitti to produce HIV&AIDS awareness messages on an unused building in the centre of their community.

Dr Shaheen Shariff and her "Define-the-line" research team discuss and investigate the ways in whcih digital and social media have become central to concerns about human development and wellbeing.

Predictors of and contributors to academic success, social adaptation, and emotional well-being are studied among youths in Aboriginal communities in northern Quebec with an emphasis on the role of their identification with their own culture.

Making people healthier requires action at all levels of society. It means creating environments that protect and actively promote health and wellbeing and encouraging and enabling people to make healthy choices for themselves and their families

Youth initiated DIY activities along with interventions in the form of community and school based projects are drawing on digital media (video, photos, digital storytelling and cellphilms) in ways that "give voice" to young people on critical issues.