The TRANSFORM Partnership is funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and brings together 40 researchers, 16 universities, and 10 partner organizations —including NGOs, policy actors, and publishers— with hundreds of youth from around the world to study how young people are pivotal agents of change in gender equity, specifically through participatory visual and arts-based methodologies.
Using youth-led, arts-based interventions to work across contexts, young people define, enact, and reimagine gender transformation around issues that matter to them— from gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health rights to queer and trans activism, education, and climate justice.
Young people, activists, researchers, policymakers, and global institutions meet in dialogue to explore how gender transformation travels across research, policy, and practice—while keeping youth leadership, critique, and imagination firmly at the centre.
Images are not just outputs—they are catalysts. Through participatory visual and arts-based methods, we explore how creative practices shape audiences, ethics, and new understandings of what “impact” can mean.
Young people are today's knowledge producers and leaders. Through Youth-to-Youth (Y2Y) spaces, youth co-create agendas, methods, and outcomes, shaping gender-transformative work through feminist, decolonial, and intergenerational collaboration.
We work alongside international NGOs, community organizations, policy actors, and feminist publishers to bridge research, practice, and policy to ensure that youth-led gender-transformative knowledge circulates beyond academia—informing programs, public dialogue, and decision-making at multiple scales.
