Relationships Australia: 20 Years of Neighbour Day - Social Connection Campaign Implementation Research
Help support communities to stay connected throughout challenging circumstances.
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Relationships Australia are a leading provider of relationship support services for individuals, families and communities. We aim to support all people in Australia to achieve positive and respectful relationships.
Neighbour Day is Relationships Australia’s social connection campaign. It aims to support and enable sustainable respectful relationships across communities, while also helping to address loneliness across the nation. It does this through awareness raising and capacity building. In 2019, an estimated 400,000 people got involved in Neighbour Day. Since 2020, the campaign has received media attention, as it shifted to promote #CreativeConnections, supporting communities to stay connected throughout challenging circumstances. We have had the campaign externally evaluated by the ANU and other universities for four years. You can read this blog summarising these findings.
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Availability | Winter or Semester 2, 2022 |
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Open to international students | Yes |
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Clearances required | Working With Vulnerable People (WWVP) card |
Host supervisors |
Claire Fisher, Senior Research and Projects Officer (E: Cfisher@relationships.org.au; Ph: 0490 452 926) |
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2/67 Eyre St Kingston, ACT Depending on COVID-19 restrictions, the student/s will start in the office and will then have the opportunity to work from their preferred location, including from home |
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Summary:
This project will use LGAs, whose Councils are not currently actively involved in Neighbour Day, as case studies to explore the process of implementation and promotion of Relationships Australia’s Neighbour Day campaign. This will allow us to measure the effectiveness of implementing the Neighbour Day campaign in a localised area and explore changes to constituents in relation to Neighbour Day’s key campaign outcomes. We will be guided by our previous research into changes in mental health and wellbeing as a result of involvement with neighbours, communities and the Neighbour Day campaign.
The research will involve two surveys, administered before and after the event, as well as focus groups conducted online and in-person (COVID permitting). The student may be required to travel to the LGA (Moreland City Council) in Melbourne, to support the focus groups.
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20 Years of Neighbour Day - Social Connection Campaign Implementation Research