Projects
Addressing Misinformation with Media Literacy through Cultural Institutions
Through an action-based, mixed methods approach, the project investigates adults’ experiences with online misinformation and assesses their ability to identify and challenge it. Research findings will inform the design and evaluation of targeted evidence-based media literacy training and resources that will be shared across broadcast media, physical spaces and online.
Alternative Suspension Program Evaluation
The Alternative Suspension program represents an alternative to school suspension for students. It aims to address the underlying causes of the behaviour and reduce school exclusions by offering students an opportunity to turn their time away from school into a positive experience that fosters personal growth and autonomy.
ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society aims to create the knowledge and strategies necessary for responsible, ethical and inclusive automated decision-making. The Centre combines leading researchers from the humanities and social and technological sciences in an international industry, research and civil society network.
ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology
The ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology (CoESB) is a cross-disciplinary, and national research centre, which aims to create the knowledge and strategies necessary for Australia to develop a vibrant bioeconomy building on the nation’s strengths in agriculture.
Articulating value in housing cooperatives
Australia has a persistent shortage of affordable, quality housing. Housing cooperatives are member-based organisations providing rental and owner occupied homes to members. The project outcome will be an evidence base of what works in cooperative housing, which can benefit the country by providing a rationale for growth of and policy support for socially beneficial housing.
Australia a Space-faring Nation: Imaginaries and Practices of Space Futures
This project investigates the challenges, opportunities and implications of outer space as a site of economic, political, environmental and cultural interest for Australia. Combining interviews with key experts, ethnography and creative practice, the project analyses how a range of imaginaries of outer space are produced.
Autonomy, Diversity & Disability: Everyday Practices of Technology (ADDEPT)
The ADDEPT project looks to understand how diverse communities use technology in their everyday life. It examines how and when bias and other technology issues impede, frustrate or disadvantage two distinct groups: people with disability, and people from culturally diverse backgrounds.
Building the evidence base on the impacts of mobile financial services for women and men in farming households in Laos and Cambodia
Great claims are made about the potential of mobile phones to deliver formal financial services to farming households. The range of services, including credit, savings, insurance, transfers and cashless payments, is assumed
Civic Sinoburbia? New Chinese migrants and everyday citizenship in Sydney
This project examines how new Chinese migrants participate in everyday civic life, the barriers that may prevent participation, and how local civic organisations adapt to their growing presence in five domains of social life: education, culture, sport, religion and community service.
Dalarinji, Your Story: Understanding and Promoting the Social and Emotional Well-being and Mental Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ Young People
This is a NSW research project that aims to understand and promote the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning young people, and to work with services to develop appropriate supports.
Development communication, media and peace in protracted displacement
This is a case study analysis of media projects in three refugee camps located in different geographical areas. The intended outcome is to generate evidence on a development communication approach that addresses humanitarian needs while simultaneously triggering mechanisms that initiate longer-term community and social development.
Heritage-making among recent migrants in Parramatta
The project studies the ways that recent migrants experience and interact with existing heritage places in Parramatta and how they generate heritage places and attachments of their own. The research will inform the approach of Heritage NSW (the Linkage partner) to involving migrant communities in heritage management procedures.
Informal peer support during tough times: Learning from young people providing help
The study is examining Australian young peoples experiences of providing support to each other during tough times. The project is exploring what resources young people who support others have access to and what information and resources young people need for the future.
Investigating Innovative Waste Economies: redrawing the circular economy
The aim of the project is to investigate social and economic innovations with waste in three problematic waste streams: single-use plastics, organics and textiles. This knowledge will be used to extend the current policy debate about the circular economy
Intergener8 Living Lab
Intergener8 Living Lab is a co-research and design facility that embraces an integrated and intergenerational mode of R&D, training and enterprise focused on developing technology-based products, services and solutions that build the capacity of young people to live well and participate fully in social and economic life.
Living with Urban Heat: Becoming Climate-Ready in Social Housing
This project aims to address liveability in rapidly warming cities by focusing on the role that social practice plays in complementing technical and infrastructural cooling solutions. This project expects to generate new knowledge about equitable heat adaptive practices.
Measuring the benefits of reuse in the circular economy
This project aims to develop a robust measure for valuing and representing sector impact in part by highlighting the diversity of reuse organizations. The project will also identify key spatial requirements and enabling policies that will help the sector to grow.
Reassessing Risk in Decision-Making on Engineering Biology
This research provides thought leadership in examining risk and responsibility in engineering biology-enabled carbon-negative solutions in Australia, through engagement with policy and science experts. Failing to explore novel visions of risk and responsibility for the future deployment and integration of novel carbon capture technologies within the current climate crisis would impair Australia’s ability to adapt and thrive in future climate scenarios.
Reimagining Norfolk Island's Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area
The Reimagining KAVHA project explores the role living heritage sites play in resisting or reinforcing cultural injustices faced by colonial subjects. In particular, the project seeks to generate new understandings about Pitcairn Settler descendants’ struggles for recognition and self-determination.
The Collaborative Museum: Embedding Cultural Infrastructure in the City
In partnership with the Museum of Arts and Applied Sciences (MAAS), this project examines the complex processes of collaboration and community engagement needed to embed the new Powerhouse museum in the key Western Sydney city of Parramatta.
The legacy of coastal infrastructure: reclamations and seawalls
The project tells the story of how in the modern era humans in Asia-Australia have expanded their territory into the sea via the technology of coastal reclamation and seawall construction. Rather than presenting coastal reclamations and seawalls as part of the heritage of human progress, it shows them to be artefacts of the Anthropocene, infrastructural objects that have contributed to today’s environmental crisis.
The Geopolitics of Automation
Automation threatens economic disruption. The project aims to understand how competition between China and the US to develop automated technologies shapes the future of work. Focusing on warehouses linked to Alibaba and Amazon in Australia, Germany and Malaysia, the project asks how automation changes labour conditions and modifies geopolitical tensions.
Transborder Electricity Infrastructures and Geopolitics
The energy map is being redrawn. This project aims to understand how initiatives to extend renewable electricity grids across national borders inflect geopolitics. Designed to sustain the planet, these grids catalyse and respond to changing configurations of world power.
Understanding the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women who have experienced a traumatic brain injury through family violence
There is growing recognition within Australia that women are acquiring head injuries within episodes of family violence, particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. Yet, little qualitative research exists around how surviving this experience impacts their lives. This project aims to explore the nature and context of women's lives who are living with the consequences of head injury from family violence and how women rebuild their life and identity after the injury.
Walking my path: The lived experiences of Indigenous gender and/or sexuality diverse peoples in New South Wales
This project explores the experiences of Indigenous gender and/or sexuality diverse peoples in New South Wales (NSW) to establish and address their social, cultural, and economic needs and aspirations. The partner organisation to this project, BlaQ Aboriginal Corporation, ‘seeks to relieve the suffering and challenges experienced by LGBTIQ+ peoples through advocacy and service provision.