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Empowering mature women to maintain secure housing
Mature women in Australia are one of the fastest growing groups at risk of homelessness. This report provides the design principles, personas and prototype design for a preventative approach to homelessness and aimed at improving maintaining secure housing for mature women in Australia: the Women's Butterfly Project.
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Adult media literacy in Australia: attitudes, experiences and needs
The findings in this report demonstrate that if we accept that media is integral to all aspects of our lives, far more needs to be done to address the needs of groups who are the least confident about their media abilities and who have access to the least support. This research also show that increasing...
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Smart cities down under: performance of Australian local government areas
This report presents the findings of a study conducted at the Urban Studies Lab of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), that placed Australian local government areas under the smart city microscope to evaluate their performances. The study also generates insights for understanding the reasons behind the performance differences of local government areas.
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Digital platform work in Australia: preliminary findings from a national survey
The objectives of this research were to explore the prevalence and characteristics of digital platform work in Australia, gain insight into the characteristics and experiences of those participating in digital platform work, and understand the extent to which they combine digital platform work with other forms of paid work.
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Measuring and evaluating digital ability for digital inclusion in Queensland
In the context of the Queensland Government’s digital inclusion agenda, QUT's Digital Media Research Centre was commissioned to create two tools for delivery and evaluation of digital programs in the community.