Person
Jane Farmer
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Guide
Social connection guide for activity planning
This guide is a practical resource for practitioners looking to foster social connection in their communities through activities, programs or interventions. It explains the key concepts related to social connection, and offers a model to help understand how they fit together.
Research Summary
Online mental health peer support forums and rural resilience
This research summary looks at the extent to which online peer support mental health forums help to build resilience for the rural people with lived experience of mental ill-health who use them.
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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.
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"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.
Report
Linking scholarly articles to SDGs: an automated approach
This paper proposes methodological approaches to automatically categorise journal articles into one or more Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The authors collaborate with Swinburne University of Technology researchers to collect a set of sustainable development articles with topics covering all SDGs.