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Business

Workplace Compliance

Social Science Insights

Social science can be used to encourage employers to follow workplace regulations. This post covers how to increase compliance by appealing to social norms, providing practical examples of how to implement new requirements, and by sending timely messages that encourage change.

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Business

Increasing Program Applications

Social Science Insights

This post covers how organisations can get more people to apply to their programs. We break down a case study of how to entice students to apply for an education achievement award. We show how to design an effective message to attract applicants, as well as how to improve the application form and customer experience.

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Social Policy

Using Social Science to Address Injustice

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Social science was used in a state inquiry into social injustice. This includes a review of information services, analysis of policy and program outcomes, and identifying the social and economic impact of racial inequity.

  • Infographic showing people talking in quadrants, a man holding a giant magnifying glass, people holding puzzle pieces making a heart, and a man frowning at graphs. Title reads: Using social science to address injustice
  • Infographic showing a man standing beside a giant folder showing houses, writing, and starred reviews, as well as a person moving items around a giant calendar. Title: My team used social science in a State inquiry into social justice
  • Infographic of a man in a uniform and cap holding a giant magnifying glass with a question mark in the centre, surrounded by giant letters, charts, mail, and photos, as well as a man with a frustrated expression, sitting on his knees on top of a giant laptop, as the screen and surrounding files show error warnings. Title: How we used social science theorey and method
  • Infographic of a white woman holding a giant magnifying glass in front of a giant signed document. Title: review of state archives
  • Infographic showing a woman presenting to an audience while standing in front of a line graph. Title: evaluation of programs
  • Infographic showing a smiling man, with his hands behind his back, standing in front of three giant documents, the one in the centre with a ribbon over the top, as well as a woman pointing to a giant laptop. Title: Thematic analysis
  • Infographic showing a person with a speech bubble that has a bar chart inside, as they point to a giant clipboard holding a document. Title: evidence framework
  • Infographic of people holding pieces of a pie chart. Each piece shows buildings, a megaphone, a truck, and icons of people. Title: Methodology to measure inequality
  • Infographic of five people arranged in a semi circle around a giant speech bubble. Title: admive on anti-racism
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Business

Messages to Change Behaviour

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Here are some tips on how to send effective SMS campaigns.

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Social Policy

Supporting Vulnerable Students

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Timely, targeted, and informative messages can motivate young workers to continue pursuing their qualifications. Employers can adopt these social science tips to better support students at work.

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Social Policy

Increasing Take-Up of Training Services

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Employers can reduce the number of people dropping-out of vocational training by encouraging students to proactively seek help when they start struggling. Simple but effective communication with practical advice, sent at optimum times, is key.

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Day in the Life of an Applied Sociologist
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Racial Justice at Work

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A lunchtime seminar on Aboriginal queer people at work, revising data from our randomised control trial to improve outcomes for students, public communications, and personal research.

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Day in the Life of an Applied Sociologist
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COVID-19, and Recruitment Feedback

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Over my lunch break, I went to an online lecture by Professor Raina MacIntyre from the Kirby institute. She was talking about the latest international research on COVID-19. I spent most of the day working on recruitment for a program matching disabled students with policy work.

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Intersectionality Action Plan

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I spent most of the day finalising my feedback for the disability inclusion action plan for our sector, and sitting on a recruitment panel. Both of these activities involved active practice of intersectionality. That’s a concept that discribes how gender and race are interconnected with other forms of institutional disadvantage.

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Social Policy

Recruiting Teachers Into Regional Schools

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A peer-group program encouraged more student teachers to take up their professional placements in rural and remote schools. This post reflects on the project management lessons that would help organisations to attract professionals into regional jobs.

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