Janina Suppers is a lecturer at Te Kura Toi Tangata School of Education at the University of Waikato. Her research focuses on making young people’s voices heard at their schools and in their local communities, citizenship education, rural communities and co-production research with young people. Janina has experience in conducting qualitative, mixed methods and participatory research and has previously worked as a citizenship teacher in Germany and Aotearoa New Zealand.