2020 Annual Report Now Available
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The Melbourne Social Equity Institute's 2020 Annual Report is now available, featuring research and engagement highlights.
The multiple challenges of 2020 highlighted continuing social inequities across the globe. At the same time, the level of cooperation across and between governments, organisations and communities in response to COVID-19 provided a hopeful glimpse of new ways of working together.
The pressing need for collaboration, information sharing and reliance on trustworthy research resonated with all of us at the Melbourne Social Equity Institute. We were fortunate to be able to continue our programs of research while adapting to new methods of working via various online platforms.
There was a record number of applications in response to our invitation to apply for funding for interdisciplinary research projects. Because of the high quality of these applications, it was difficult for our panel to select those able to be funded and we did what we could to point to alternative sources of funding wherever possible.
An unexpected benefit of working from home during the lockdown was that more people were able to attend our online seminars than if we’d run them on campus. It was also less onerous for the interstate members of our Advisory Board to attend meetings. Nevertheless, it was a wonderful experience when a few of us could meet again in person towards the end of 2020.