The Centre for the Study of Resilience (CSR), Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, hosted the 6^th Dialogue and Ideas Lab on Building Resilience in Challenged Contexts. This event took place in the Postgraduate Research Commons, Groenkloof Campus, Education Library, Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria on 22 June 2017.

The two foci were: Conceptual issues in resilience research in challenged contexts and Methodological issues in resilience research in challenged contexts. Dr Christine Wekerle (Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University) presented on Gender and resilience research as well as Novel approaches for resilience research relevance. Dr Angie Hart (Child, Family and Community Health in the School of Health Sciences, University of Brighton) presented on Resilience approaches for the school context: Conceptual issues and was joined by Shahnaz Biggs (Child, Family and Community Health in the School of Health Sciences, University of Brighton) to present on Co-productive methodology in resilience research. Discussants for the sessions were Prof Vanessa Scherman (Department of Educational Psychology, UNISA) and Pierre Brouard (Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender, University of Pretoria).

Attendees included representatives from academic institutions (University of Pretoria, The University of the Witwatersrand and the Central University of Technology), government (CSIR Meraka Institute, Gauteng Department of Education and Department of Basic Education) and a non-profit organisation (Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative - REPSSI).