We developed ‘The Boîte: history through music, song and story.’ This digital history website draws on oral history interviews, film and music recordings to tell the history of Victoria’s iconic multicultural music organisation in its 40th year. We were awarded the Community Diversity Award of the 2020 Victorian Community History Awards for this project.

Our Director, Jen Rose has been a member of the research team developing the Australian Research Council funded project ‘Interrogating the music city: cultural economy and popular music in Melbourne’ (Monash University and RMIT) as well as providing archival and historical research services to Monash University for the Australian Research Council funded project ‘Cultural conversations: a history of the ABC Radio National network.’

Our Director, Jen Rose worked with community arts organisation The Push and KEWL studios to create the documentary ‘Pushing 30: Three Decades of The Push.’ Jen undertook historical research drawing from The Push collection and contributed scriptwriting.

We worked with historian Alicia Cerreto (project lead) to provided historical research and content development to ‘The Bridge history project’ celebrating the 50th anniversary of the service.

We worked with the staff and members of the Victorian Council of Social Service to develop policy submissions.

Worked with Yarra Valley Water on the development of a Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.

We worked with the Koorie Youth Council to develop social policy submissions in response to the Royal Commission into Family Violence and in response to the What’s Important to YOUth? consultation process of the Office for Youth, Department of Health and Human Services. We also contributed to the development of the Ngaga-dji project which voices the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Victoria’s youth justice system.

We worked with the Victorian Student Representative Council to develop policy briefing material in relation to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses on Child Sexual Abuse.

We worked with VicHealth to develop a scoping document exploring youth engagement practices.

We worked with the Whittlesea Youth Commitment, the Hume/Whittlesea LLEN and the City of Whittlesea to develop the strategic document Middle Years in Whittlesea: A Collective Response. A Municipal Middle Years Strategy for the City of Whittlesea.

We worked with Trace Research (project lead) on a alcohol and other drugs consumer, carer and community engagement project to identify good practice in consumer participation for integration with broader primary health care sector engagement. We also worked with Trace Research (project lead) and Carswell Consultancy on an alcohol and other drug workforce development project in which we developed a desktop review aligning the findings of a local needs analysis with current knowledge about training for health professionals and health practitioners, and a training plan that includes advice regarding implementation.