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Our projects

Understanding narratives around disadvantage in Australia

This project seeks to understand public discourse around cycles of disadvantage in Australia by analysing public texts across media and parliamentary speeches.

Classifying satellite images for socio-economic activity

This project proposes a methodology for predicting subnational economic development using high-resolution, daytime satellite imagery.

Cyber-cultural similarity from Google search

The aim of this project is to develop methods to provide international socio-cultural similarilty measures, at scale, from revealed human preferences.

Diverting domestic turmoil

This project examines how governments strategically divert the attention of the public away from pressing domestic issues.

Mobile money and economic development

This project provides an empirical analysis of the local economic impact of mobile money in Africa.

Occupational mobility and automation

We develop a data-driven model to analyse how workers move through an empirically derived occupational mobility network in response to automation scenarios.

Predicting social unrest via textual analytics

The aim of this project is to develop a method to predict the likelihood of social unrest occurring in a given location by using alternative and economic data.

Testing motivational crowding-out theory on reddit

This project explores the relationship between extrinsic (monetary) rewards and intrinsically motivated behaviour in the context on the online discussion platform reddit.