• Home
  • Democracy
    • Australian Democracy and Human Rights Festival 2025 (#AFDHR25)
  • Research
    • Identities in Action
    • Doing Good
    • Publications
  • People
  • Resources
    • For Change Agents
    • For Students
    • COVID19
    • PEPSS
    • Leapfrog
    • Forward
    • JAMOVI for Psychology Scholars
    • Voices for Reconciliation through the Generations in Psychology: A project of the Reconciliation Working Group in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Videos
  • Privacy Policy
  Social Change Lab
  • Home
  • Democracy
    • Australian Democracy and Human Rights Festival 2025 (#AFDHR25)
  • Research
    • Identities in Action
    • Doing Good
    • Publications
  • People
  • Resources
    • For Change Agents
    • For Students
    • COVID19
    • PEPSS
    • Leapfrog
    • Forward
    • JAMOVI for Psychology Scholars
    • Voices for Reconciliation through the Generations in Psychology: A project of the Reconciliation Working Group in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Videos
  • Privacy Policy

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!
​
Please credit the author appropriately, and let us know if you use these ideas or have any feedback on them.

Resources

  • Jacob Seedell-Greene (2024 Semester 2 student volunteer) on Engagement in Collective Action & Mental Health Outcomes - presentation to our lab group (link is to the recorded video, 37 mins 04 sec long)
  • Juliett Benn (2024 Winter Scholar) on Violence Towards Women with Disabilities - infographic (PDF, 176KB); presentation to our lab group (link is to the recorded video, 8 mins 22 sec long)
  • Eleanor Camp (2024 Winter Scholar) on Spread of Ideas Online - infographic (PDF, 192KB); presentation to our lab group (link is to the recorded video, 8 mins 35 sec long)
  • Samantha Gardiner (2024 Winter Scholar) on Effective Collective Action - infographic (PNG, 258KB); presentation to our lab group (link is to the recorded video, 9 mins 1 sec long)
  • Josef Ormsby (2024 Winter Scholar) on The Media’s Engagement with Violent Extremism - infographic (PDF, 3.2MB); presentation to our lab group (link is to the recorded video, 9 mins 24 sec long)
  • Orla Brassil and Rebecca See (2024 Summer Scholars) on The Politics of Fear - infographic (PNG, 1.3MB); presentation to our lab group (link is to the recorded video, 10 mins 2 sec long)
  • Jemima Hunt and Parnian Zanganeh (2024 Summer Scholars) on Story-telling and Sexual Trauma / Violence against Indigenous people - infographic (PNG, 846KB); presentation to our lab group (link is to the recorded video, 6 mins 16 sec long)
  • Alexia Joceline and Nidya Yusra (2024 Summer Scholars) on Story-telling and Sexual Trauma / Violence - infographic (PNG, 501KB); presentation to our lab group (link is to the recorded video, 6 mins 56 sec long)
  • Vierly Hermanta and Harry Ward (2024 Summer Scholars) on Silencing and Taboos in Collective Violence - infographic (PNG, 768KB); presentation to our lab group (link is to the recorded video, 11 mins 18 sec long)
  • Lilley Bishop and Sarah Little (2024 Summer Scholars) on Raising the Age of Criminal Responsibility (#RaiseTheAge) - infographic (PDF, 521KB); presentation to our lab group (link is to the recorded video, 9 mins 12 sec long)
  • Charmaine Chao and Sonia Smith (2024 Summer Scholars) on Awareness of Human Rights Laws in Queensland - infographic (PNG, 2.2MB); presentation to our lab group (link is to the recorded video, 10 mins 42 sec  Chrilong)
  • Kyle Hunter (2023 student volunteer) on Religion and Peace - annotated bibliography (DOCX, 292KB); presentation to our lab group (link is to the recorded video, 12 mins 13 sec long)
  • Madeleine White (2023 student volunteer) on Militarisation in Australia - annotated bibliography of relevant references (DOCX, 19KB); infographic (PDF, 941KB); presentation to our lab group to discuss the resource (link is to the recorded video, 10 mins long)​
  • Movement Success, Durability and Research with Professor Winnifred Louis Hear a conversation between Sophie Hartley, climate activism researcher with the Commons Library, and Professor Winnifred Louis, director of the Social Change Lab at the University of Queensland. Commons Conversation Podcast on Spotify.
  • Resource Toolkit for those working in the area of Peace and Conflict International Network For Peace Psychology Toolkit militarisation_in_australia_-_annotated_bibliography.docx.pdf
  • ​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.
  • Interview for UQx Denial101x focusing on Effective Environmental Change Messages.
  • 2017 ICEP Keynote on Right-Wing Populism and what it means for a sustainable environment: 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

Join our mailing list!

Click the button below to join our mailing list:
Mailing list

​Social Change Lab supports crowdfunding of the research and support for the team! To donate to the lab, please click the button below! (Tax deductible receipts are provided via UQ’s secure donation website.)  If you’d like to fund a specific project or student internship, you can also reach out directly!
DONATE HERE

Picture
Follow us on Twitter!

Location

Social Change Lab
School of Psychology
McElwain Building
​The University of Queensland
St Lucia, QLD 4072
Australia
Check out our Privacy Policy
We acknowledge the Jagera people and Turrbal people as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of Meanjin (Brisbane), the lands on which the Social Change Lab is physically located and where we meet, work and live. We celebrate the culture and traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders of all communities who also work and live on this land. We pay our respects to their Ancestors and their descendants, who continue cultural and spiritual connections to Country. We recognise their valuable contributions to Australian and global society.
​Copyright © 2017
  • Home
  • Democracy
    • Australian Democracy and Human Rights Festival 2025 (#AFDHR25)
  • Research
    • Identities in Action
    • Doing Good
    • Publications
  • People
  • Resources
    • For Change Agents
    • For Students
    • COVID19
    • PEPSS
    • Leapfrog
    • Forward
    • JAMOVI for Psychology Scholars
    • Voices for Reconciliation through the Generations in Psychology: A project of the Reconciliation Working Group in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Videos
  • Privacy Policy