Research & Archiving

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Activist Archiving: Start Here

A list of articles and ideas from the Commons Librarians about resources to explore in archiving your work in social change.

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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.

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What is Inclusive Research?

Guidelines, examples and tips to facilitate inclusive research practices and promote co-ownership of research with people with disability.

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Data for Social Good: Non-Profit Sector Data Projects

Practical guidance for non-profits and community sector organisations about how to get started with data analytics projects.

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Developing Data Capability in Your Not-for-Profit

Walk through the six types of data that not-for-profit organisations most often work with and what you can actually do with that data.

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Data Projects from Go to Whoa!

Get things rolling and ensure your not for profit data projects are as successful and sustainable as they can be with this 15 step pathway.

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.

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Conducting Interviews for Articles, Research & More

This article provides tips on how to run effective interviews for articles, research projects and podcasts.

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Campaign Monitoring and Evaluation: Measuring What Matters

How can we equip ourselves to design effective monitoring and evaluation approaches for campaigns, movement building and organising work?

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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.

A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects

A report about the rich, diverse and unique history of queer communities in Victoria reflected in places, objects and landscapes.

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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.

Tips for Policy Writing

Policy writing is a key part of the work of not-for-profit individuals and organisations. Follow these tips to do it well.

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.

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How to do research

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.

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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.

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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.

Starting Your Research Project Worksheet

Do you need help with your research project? Here is a 2 page template to get you started from the Datacenter for Research Justice.

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Research Methodologies Comparison Sheet

Are you running a research project and need to know what research methodology to use? Here is a handy document that runs through the pros and cons of each methodology from DataCenter.

10 things to know about how to influence policy with research

10 tips about how to influence policy with research from the Overseas Development Institute. e.g. what, who, when to influence, politics, networks, etc.

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