Client: Market Forces — Disclaimer: The views expressed in the following article are my own, and not those of Market Forces, its affiliates, or employees. Market Forces is an environmental campaigning organisation that primarily focuses on the sources of finance for environmentally destructive projects. Its mission of seeking to divert finance from environmentally destructive…

The following are 10 concepts from social psychology simply explained using examples from popular television shows and films. Social identity theory. Physical attractiveness and the halo effect. Attitude structure and function. Attitude change resistance strategies. Social influence — compliance / social commitment tactics / foot-in-the-door technique. Groups and belonging —…

Client: Australian Youth Climate Coalition — The Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC) is a youth organisation that was co-founded in November 2006 by Amanda McKenzie and Anna Rose. Its goal is to “build a movement of young people leading solutions to the climate crisis.” …

Client: Nature Conservation Council — The Nature Conservation Council (NCC) of New South Wales (NSW) is an environmental organisation founded in 1955 and based in Sydney, Australia. Its positioning statement is “the voice for nature in NSW” and has been campaigning for the protection of nature for over 65 years. In December, 2022, NCC commissioned…

Feminism is a relatively new political term that has only gained popular usage since the 1960s (Heywood, 2003). At its core, it is a political ideology which is based on two fundamental beliefs: that being a woman is a disadvantage; and that this disadvantage needs to be removed. However, feminism…

Client: Amnesty International Australia — Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation that campaigns for human rights, and has 10 million supporters worldwide. The organisation was founded in 1961 by Peter Benenson, a British lawyer who was outraged by two Portuguese students being imprisoned for simply giving a toast to freedom. …

2022 marks two decades since I created a redesign of the Queensland Rail (QR) South East Queensland (SEQ) rail network map. It also marks the year that a beloved lecturer from my design school, Senior Lecturer Donald Welch, sadly passed away. The following writing is from a report I wrote…

Executive Summary Many of the personality tests that are currently available to the public are based on the Five-Factor Model of Personality (FFM) or the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). One of the most popular of these personality tests — the NERIS Type Explorer — combines these two personality systems into one. However…

Applied behavioural science is a field of psychology that is about creating behaviour change at the population level (Haanterä et al., 2022). As such, it takes a systems-based approach to understand the factors that cause current behaviour and the barriers that members of a population have in implementing new behaviours…