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Help Changing the World:

resources for change agents

All you activists, policy-makers, fundraisers, environmentalists, social change agents, and general do-gooders: check out these resources to help you turn our research into your practice.  We've also got some video resources, as you can see in the header above!
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Please credit the author appropriately, and let us know if you use these ideas or have any feedback on them.

Resources

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  • Part 1 (24m), Part 2 (26m) - 4ZZZ interview (June 2021) with Winnifred covering research with Susilo Wibisono on religious identity and religious extremism; with Robyn Gulliver on environmental activism; with Kiara Minto on non-physical Intimate Partner Violence; with Zahra Mirnajafi on white identity; with Gi Chonu on religious identity change; and more.  
  • https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/webinar-civil-resistance-against-climate-change/ - A July 2021 webinar from Robyn Gulliver and Winnifred Louis about their monograph for the International Centre on Nonviolent Conflict. ​
  • How to have policy impact, a page distilling the wisdom of Kelly Fielding, Eleanor Wertheim, and James Liu to the questions, "If you think your data have policy implications, what next?" (16 tips); How do you inform a policy debate?  (22 tips); Specific Advice for Early Career Scholars (12 tips); and Specific Advice for Senior Scholars (23 tips).  You can ask questions from this page and we'll canvas answers.
  • Slides to my 2017 November workshop with Heather Gridley of the Australian Psychological Society on How to promote community cohesion in a multicultural society: Key insights from social psychology.
  • Slides to my 2017 November ED talk on Effective communication when people don't care (enough) and when they resist: Three common problems and five strategies, hosted by the Design & Analytics team at the Communications, Innovation & Partnerships Branch at the Department of the Environment & Energy, Canberra.
  • Interview for UQx Denial101x focusing on Effective Environmental Change Messages.
  • Slides to my 2017 ICEP Keynote on Right-Wing Populism and what it means for a sustainable environment and link to online video.  Woot! (Winnifred Louis)
  • Changing the world: Why it fails and why it works, video of TEDx talk, 2016 (Winnifred Louis)
  • The psychology of fundraising, presentation file, 2016 (Cassandra Chapman)
  • Intergroup conflict as collective action, video of presentation, 2015 (Winnifred Louis)
  • Communicating environmental science to conservatives: how and why?, Decision Point article, 2015 (Winnifred Louis)
  • Protest in the 21st century: is naked the new balaclava? The Conversation article, 2015 (Emma Thomas and Winnifred Louis)

Other blogs and websites worth visiting:

  • The Rational Insurgent
  • Mobilizing Ideas
  • Activist New York
  • Rabble.ca: Activist Toolkit blog
  • Everyday Sociology
  • Social Change Initiative
  • Institute for Human Security and Social Change
  • Stanford Social Innovation Review
  • HuffPo Impact section

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