Professor Lucas Walsh was co-author and a Chief Investigator on the Q Project in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. Lucas is Professor of Education Policy and Practice, Youth Studies and currently Director of the Monash Centre for Youth Policy & Education Practice (CYPEP), which has created influential research, such as The Australian Youth Barometer, and other investigations into young people's food insecurity, exclusion, careers education, personal finances, education and working life.