In collaboration with Flinders University, SAYF's 14 to 18 branch was engaged to provide structured feedback on a new app adaptation of Metacognitive Training for Eating Disorders. Members were given the app to work through and facilitated an internal session exploring what worked, what did not land, what felt inaccessible, and what would genuinely reach young people experiencing eating disorders. This is youth voice built into the design of a health tool, not bolted on after

SAYF members took the stage alongside Dr Ben Lohmeyer at the Department for Education's Wellbeing Leaders' Summit, speaking to hundreds of educators about the importance of authentic youth voice in wellbeing policy. Young speakers shared lived experiences of school, inspiring educators to reimagine what student leadership and wellbeing support can actually look like. Image Credit: Department for Education

SAYF's 14 to 18 branch members serve on the Oversight Committee for Flinders University's Trauma Aware School Village project, a national multi-year research initiative exploring how trauma-informed approaches can be embedded across entire school communities rather than applied only at the individual student level. This is a sustained governance involvement from young people in a nationally significant piece of education research, and it is one of the clearest examples of wha

Over three years, SAYF has been embedded as co-designers, peer researchers, data analysers, and contributors to the written outputs of Flinders University's study on loneliness among young people. SAYF members have been present across every stage of the research, from shaping the questions to leading focus groups to contributing to the analysis that became our first peer-reviewed academic paper on the affective economics of loneliness in school. Image Credit: Flinders Univers