Helen Berents is currently an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in the School of Justice, Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice at the Queensland University of Technology, a Chief Investigator in the QUT Centre for Justice, and Affiliated Investigator in the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) at QUT. Her DECRA Fellowship examines youth peace advocacy and engagement in the context of the UN’s emergent Youth, Peace and Security Agenda. Helen’s research is interested in children and youth, peace and conflict, and local responses to violence and insecurity.