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Organisation

Activating Social Connection project

Alternate Name:

Social Connection project


This Australian Research Council Linkage Project, Activating social connection to address isolation in Australia (LP200301335) aims to design an approach to activate social connection for people and communities.

Research Summary

Blurred boundaries: social media and social connection in outer metropolitan suburbs


This briefing provides evidence of how digital technologies foster or hinder social connection based on common issues and tensions that emerged from an analysis of interviews with residents.
Research Summary

"When you find people like you, you don't have to explain yourself": experiences of social connection in outer-metropolitan suburbs


This project focuses on finding new evidence and using it to assist community partners and policy-makers to activate social connection in practical ways. It looks particularly at outer-metropolitan suburbs with diverse populations and ongoing rapid growth.

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