Sharing Research and Reports via the Commons Library
How the Commons Social Change Library can help academics and researchers share their work more effectively with campaigners and improve impact.
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Beyond Extractivism in Research with Communities and MovementsÂ
How can we move beyond research extractivism as justice focused scholars working with communities and movements? Here is a set of principles to help researchers design anti-extractivist research.
Movement Success, Durability and Research with Winnifred Louis (Commons Conversations Podcast)
Professor Winnnifred Louise discusses the principles that can help campaigns to be more effective and durable.
10 Tips for how the Climate Movement can Improve Experiences for Activists with Diverse Health Needs
Researchers interviewed climate activists about their physical and mental health experiences. Here are 10 tips based on the activists’ experiences, insights and recommendations.
(Dis)solution Magazine
(Dis)solution is an Australian online and print journal published in Naarm/Melbourne. It is born out of a need for radical, critical thought and expression, particularly from emerging writers, artists and activists which challenges the catastrophic, ecocidal structures of the 21st century.
Lobbying and Advocacy: Start Here
Welcome to the Lobbying & Advocacy topic in the Commons Social Change Library. This article guides you through a wide range of materials to inform the public in relation to lobbying, advocacy and policy-making.Â
Decoding Injustice: Shedding new light on how economic policies harm people’s human rights
This article provides a powerful way to use research to advance a range of economic, environmental, and social issues.
Leadership and Leaderful Organizing: Research on Building Leaderful Movements in Europe
This research report explores the concept of leaderful organizing and provides research on building leaderful movements in Europe.
How to do Inclusive Research: Tips and Ideas
Here are some tips and ideas of ways to make your research more inclusive when working with people with disability.
What is Inclusive Research?
Guidelines, examples and tips to facilitate inclusive research practices and promote co-ownership of research with people with disability.
Finding the Needle in the Haystack: Internet Research Tips
Quick tips and tools to improve your internet searching skills including using filters, truncation, phrase searching and hyphens.
Conducting Interviews for Articles, Research & More
This article provides tips on how to run effective interviews for articles, research projects and podcasts.Â
Build More Powerful Campaigns with Social Science
Watch this webinar to learn some of the essential takeaways to improve your organizing with insights from social science.
Home Grown: Mapping Australian Organising Models
A new research project to map organising models in Australia, with examples from three organisations: Australian Conservation Foundation, Results Australia, and Amnesty International Australia. Presented at FWD+Organise 2021.
Guide to publicly available data sources
Through research you can get to know your issues in depth, find out where people stand on those issues, and make a strong evidence-based case for change. Use these Australian publicly available data sources to strengthen and inform your research.
Campaign Research 101
An introduction to the basics of campaign research for social change advocates. Campaign research helps you get the right message, in the right format, delivered by the right messengers, to the right audience through the right channels.
Citizen Generated Data: Toolkits and Guides
Useful guides from CIVICUS to learn how to gather information and data for a campaign using surveys, focus groups and interviews.
How to Do Research for Social Change Projects
Research plays a crucial role in social change projects. Here’s a collection of useful guides to research from Skills You Need, including how to design research projects, gather data and analyse data.
Forming Survey Questions
Need to keep the data safe for your research project? Here is a useful data security protocol from the Datacenter for Research Justice.
Data Security Protocols
Need to keep the data safe for your research project? Here is a useful data security protocol from the Datacenter for Research Justice.