Our Research

The Challenging Racism Project conducts world-class research that is interdisciplinary and innovative. We specialise in research relating to:

  • Attitudes towards difference and diversity
  • Experiences of racism
  • Anti-racism strategies
  • Online racism and anti-racism
  • Islamophobia
  • Hate and extremism
  • Racism, misinformation and public trust

Projects

  1. Face Up to Racism: 2015-2016 National Survey
  2. Islamophobia Factsheets
  3. The Geographies of Racism: National Data Set
  4. The Local Anti-Racism Project
  5. Bystander Anti-Racism Project
  6. Anti-Racism Training projects
  7. The Ordinariness of Australian Muslims: Attitudes and Experiences of Muslims
  8. Resilience and the NSW Police Community Engaged Counter- Radicalisation Model
  9. Everyday Racism App
  10. Ethnic Discrimination in Private Rental Housing
  11. The SOAR Project: Speak Out Against Racism
  12. Cyber-racism and Community Resilience (CRaCR)
  13. Rethinking Multiculturalism / Re-Assessing Multicultural Education
  14. Promoting Intercultural Understanding through Student Exchange: A city-country multi-school program
  15. Exploring the Challenges of Delivering Services for Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) in Western Sydney
  16. Muslim Women and Sport in Australia
  17. Volition Project
  18. Filling data gaps on racism in Victoria
  19. ‘Can do better’: Mapping ordinary anti-racism and pro-sociality in Victoria
  20. Hate Speakers: Following the money
  21. Rider and Driver Experiences of Racism in Uber
  22. Asian Australians’ experiences of racism during the COVID-19 pandemic
  23. Enhancing resilience and social belonging during the COVID-19 pandemic
  24. ‘Mixed-race’ young Australians' experiences of racism, identity and belonging in multicultural Australia
  25. Emerging vectors and sources of racism: Responding to the online challenges to social cohesion
  26. How in-language advertising impacts behaviour
  27. What Next for Diversity?
  28. Building resilience to the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories: Lessons from COVID-19