Applications are now open for part-time (8-12 hours/month) IYAB Coordinators to support recruitment, onboarding, and ongoing activities for the upcoming 2022-2023 board term.

When Dane Marco Di Cesare was a child, he turned to video games for more than entertainment or diversion. For him, they were a safe place for a queer youth to immerse himself in fantastic worlds, away from a reality that was sometimes unsafe and often stressful. Today, he’s leading the first large scale international study to examine how the gaming experiences of LGBTQ+ youth and young adults affect their wellbeing and identity development.

Join Dr. Kerith J. Conron (she/her), Research Director at the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and co-author of the ‘Prohibiting Gender-Affirming Medical Care for Youth’ brief, on June 8th, 11am-12pm Eastern to learn about efforts in the US to restrict access to gender-affirming care and discuss their policy and research implications.

Applications for the third and final cohort of the International Student Training Network (ISTN) are now open! Deadline to apply: June 13th, 2022.

INQYR has launched its bilingual, international survey, LEVEL UP!, which explores gender and sexual minority youth’s positive and negative experiences of video gaming and gaming communities, and how this relates to wellbeing!

INQYR PI, Dr. Shelley Craig, joins a Children and Screens panel on Wednesday, April 6th, 12pm ET for the newest Ask the Experts webinar: “The Birds and the Bees: Sexuality and Screens”.

Congratulations to Dr. Shelley Craig for her reappointment as the Canada Research Chair in Sexual and Gender Minority Youth. Her research directly impacts the wellbeing of youth through evidence-based interventions and by leveraging information technologies on queer youth resilience.

In this latest issue of the INQYR newsletter, we look back at the past year and reflect on the Partnership's successes and opportunities thus far.

Join Dr. Dane Di Cesare in learning about considerations, guidelines, and suggestions for creating infographics.

US Regional Chair, Dr. Lauren McInroy speaks with husITa podcast about LGBTQ+ Youths' Community Engagement and Resource Seeking Online versus Offline from the Journal of Technology in the Human Services.

We welcome Dr. Ashley Brooks to the INQYR team as Research Manager.

The Australia regional network will be led by Dr. Yael Perry, co-head of the Youth Mental Health team at Telethon Kids Institute in Perth, Australia.

Project director, Dr. Shelley Craig, spoke with CBC's The National on May 19, 2021 about American singer, songwriter, and actor, Demi Lovato and their public coming out as non-binary and its significance for queer, trans, and non-binary youth.

Maydianne Andrade, a Canada Research Chair in Integrative Behavioural Ecology and the University of Toronto Scarborough’s vice-dean of faculty affairs and equity, spoke with Dr. Shelley Craig on “Queering The New Normal,” on episode eight of her podcast, The New Normal.

The INQYR Living Timeline offers a peek "behind the scenes" of research including a look into innovative technology-engaged research methods, and features interviews with our principal investigator, co-investigators, and student research teams.

A panel and Q&A from Hopelab, CenterLink, and Headstream with leading experts in LGBTQ+ teen and young adult mental health. Featuring panel host, Arianna Taboada, MSW, MSPH and panelists, Shelley Craig, PhD, LCSW and Lance T. McCready, PhD.

The International LGBTQ Psychology Online Conference took place online from July 15-20, 2020. INQYR was proud to be a part of the programming.