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The Institute for Social Change brings together researchers across the University of Tasmania who are passionate about understanding and addressing social change in this state and beyond.

Institute staff, together with our colleagues across the university, deliver a range of policy, demographic and social research services aimed at informing public policy and community debate.

We provide analysis and commentary aimed at stimulating discussion around key issues affecting Tasmania and the wider community.

Our team

  • Professor Libby Lester

Director. Libby works across industries, government and NGOs to understand and promote the role of communication and media in good decision making about shared social and environmental futures. She asks in particular how regional communities and industries adapt and change in the face of global crises and expanding networks of communications, travel and trade.
  • Dr Lisa Denny

Lisa is a research fellow with the Institute for Social Change. As a demographer and quantitative researcher, Lisa provides independent demographic analysis at a state, regional and local level using multiple social and economic variables.
  • Jackie De Vries

Project Manager and Data Analyst.

  • Professor Matthew Allen

Adjunct Professor. Professor Matthew Allen is Australia’s first Professor of Internet Studies, having established the world-leading Internet Studies department at Curtin University where he worked from 1993 to 2012. He then took up the role of Head of School, Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University (2013-2019) before moving to Tasmania to focus on his research.
  • Ruth Steel

Business Development Manager, Research Operations.

Email: Ruth.Steel@utas.edu.au

  • Denice Barker

Executive Officer - Research.

Affiliated researchers

The Institute has an open membership of affiliated researchers which consists of scholars from across the University of Tasmania whose research interests align with the Institute's areas of interest. We welcome new staff members or HDR candidates.

We bring together more than 200 affiliated researchers across the University of Tasmania with an interest in studying social change in all its dimensions.

Our Advisory Board

The ISC Advisory Board was appointed to provide strategic advice on the Institute's future research and community impact strategy. The Board consists of distinguished members of the Tasmanian community and leading national scholars in our fields of research specialisation.

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Institute for Social Change
University of Tasmania
Private Bag 44
HOBART TAS 7001

E: ISC.Admin@utas.edu.au

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