The Communication for Social Change research centre researches how communication processes, strategies, techniques and media technologies impact social transformation, community empowerment, and contribute to equitable change in Aotearoa and globally. The centre’s focus is on communication, technology and social change. The centre’s goal is to:
- Foster research-informed analysis and commentary on social change communication as it relates to health, development, environment, wellbeing, social cohesion and ethnic relations;
- Work with key partners in community, government, and industry to address pressing social problems and to help deliver a good, just and sustainable society;
- Learn from cultural worldviews and knowledge systems of local communities and leverage these knowledges collaboratively to enable social and communicative transformations.