13 Feb 2025

What’s it like being young in New Zealand?

From Nights, 10:18 pm on 13 February 2025

Growing Up in New Zealand is a long-running longitudinal study following the lives of more than 6,000 children as they grow up. The cohort has just turned fifteen years old and this month, insights from that much-awaited 15-year check in will be published - a period when sleep patterns, screen time, friendships and cultural identities all impact wellbeing. Growing up in New Zealand's research director Associate Professor Sarah-Jane Paine joins Mark Leishman.