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DERC’s research on COVID continues to surge ahead

July 21, 2020

We may have been in lockdown, but that didn’t stop DERC researchers from launching several projects to study the pandemic.

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Rapid response to study social impact of COVID-19

June 11, 2020

How is the experience of COVID-19 transforming everyday life? How are we making sense of this moment on both a global and granular scale?

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The Shut-In Worker: Working from home and digitally-enabled labour practices during COVID-19 – Call for participants

May 25, 2020

Have you found yourself having to work from home during the COVID crisis when you would have previously gone to ‘work’?

DERC 2020 HDR representatives

December 20, 2019

Following a call for nominations we are delighted to announce that Khiem Le and Pradip Sarkar will serve as DERC’s HDR representatives in 2020.

DERC’s Anna Harris and team awarded ARC Discovery Project

December 5, 2019

The project is led by Monash university and aims to address increasing discrimination and violence against Australian women.

Jenny Kennedy awarded ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

November 19, 2019

We are delighted by the news that DERC's Jenny Kennedy has been awarded a highly competitive three year $427k Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), from the Australian Research Council.

Australian Content in SVOD Catalogs: Availability and Discoverability Report

November 1, 2019

Australian Content in SVOD Catalogs: Availability and Discoverability - 2019 edition by Dr Ramon Lobato and Alexa Scarlata is the third in a series of annual studies.

DERC Researchers Ellie Rennie and Ramon Lobato awarded ARC Future Fellowships

October 22, 2019

We are very excited by the news that both Ellie Rennie and Ramon Lobato have been awarded ARC Future Fellowships.

$31.8M ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society

October 11, 2019

DERC’s Julian Thomas will lead the new 7-year $31.8M ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, based at RMIT.

Announcing Co-Director Ellie Rennie

May 15, 2019

We are delighted to announce that Ellie Rennie, Principal Research Fellow with the Social Change ECP and core member of DERC, will join Tania Lewis as Co-Director of the Centre.

Feature Researcher: interview with Olivia Guntarik

April 18, 2019

Olivia Guntarik's research on digital and creative technologies seeks to draw connections between the past and present through the natural, built and cultural heritage.

Waking Sound and Sleep Inertia Research study call for volunteer participants

April 3, 2019

DERC’s PhD member Stuart McFarlane is currently recruiting volunteer participants for the research study: Waking Sound and Sleep Inertia.