Resources and Training

Building data capability in the not-for-profit sector: 

• A Data Capability Framework for the not-for-profit sector  
  McCosker A., Shaw F., Yao X., Albury K. (2022) A Data Capability Framework for the Not-for-Profit Sector. Swinburne University, Melbourne, DOI: https://doi.org/10.25916/h2s6-r178 (report)

   

• Data for social good: non-profit sector data projects 
  Farmer, J., McCosker, A., Albury, K. and Aryani, A., 2023. Data for social good: Non-profit sector data projects.  Springer Nature. 

   

• Developing data capability with non-profit organisations  
  McCosker, A., Yao, X., Albury, K., Maddox, A., Farmer, J. and Stoyanovich, J., 2022. Developing data capability with non-profit organisations using participatory methods. Big Data & Society, 9(1) 

Digital society and culture: 

•  Data & Society Institute (US-based) open library of research on current and emerging issues  

Digital participation and inclusion:  

• Mapping the Digital Gap: Using qualitative and quantitative research methods, this project website presents data to help measure progress on Closing the Gap Target 17, which aims for equivalent levels of digital inclusion for First Nations people by 2026.  

• The Australian Digital Inclusion Index tracks and reports on digital inclusion. The website uses survey data to measure digital inclusion across three dimensions of Access, Affordability and Digital Ability, exploring how these vary across the country and across different social groups.    

Digital aspects of sexual and reproductive health:  

• A review of literature discussing the potential impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on sexuality and sexual health: 
  Döring, N., Le, T.D., Vowels, L.M., Vowels, M.J. and Marcantonio, T.L., 2025. The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human Sexuality: A Five-Year Literature Review 2020–2024. Current Sexual Health Reports, 17(1), pp.1-39.  

• A review of literature discussing recent research into smart sextoys (also known as sextech):
  Power, J., Pym, T., James, A. and Waling, A., 2024. Smart Sex Toys: A Narrative Review of Recent Research on Cultural, Health and Safety Considerations. Current Sexual Health Reports, 16(3), pp.199-215. 

• Information asymmetries in the digital sexual and reproductive health space (UNDP, 2021)
  This paper discusses the ethical and human rights risks relating to power imbalances and information asymmetries in the use of digital technologies to deliver SRH services. 

• Critical approaches to smart sextoys/sextech:
  Albury, K., Stardust, Z. and Sundén, J., 2023. Queer and feminist reflections on sextech. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 31(4): 

Ethics: 

• Relational ethics in health care automation (Shaw and McCosker, 2024).
  This review offers a provocation for health care practitioners, managers and policy makers to consider the use of automated tools in practice settings and to examine how these tools might affect relationships and healthcare outcomes.  

• Why Chayn took down its chatbot in 2020 and what we’ve learned about building culturally-aware chatbots since.
  This blogpost by Hera Hussain – CEO of Chayn, a global nonprofit that creates resources on the web to address gender-based violence – outlines ethical concerns emerging from the implementation of referral chatbot for people experiencing intimate partner violence.  

Health promotion and education: 

• What do school-aged young people want from sexual health education?
  McKee, A., Watson, A.F. and Dore, J., 2014. ‘It’s all scientific to me’: focus group insights into why young people do not apply safe-sex knowledge. Sex Education, 14(6), pp.652-665. 

• Everyday/vernacular digital practices for sexual and reproductive health:
  Albury, K. and Hendry, N., 2023. Information, influence, ritual, participation: Defining digital sexual health. Journal of Sociology, 59(3), pp.628-645. 

Co-designing digital-first resources with young people: 

Process evaluation plus literature review/evidence-base for the Alannah and Madeline Foundation’s award-winning eSafety Commission-funded digital resource Crushed But Okay.   

While the project targets young men aged aged 15-17, strategies outlined the literature review and process evaluation are applicable to projects and campaigns targeting 18-29-year-olds: 

• Albury, K., Golding, D., McCosker, A., Veitch, A., Williams, J. (2022) Process evaluation of Crushed But Okay campaign. Melbourne: Swinburne University of Technology.
   
• Maddox, A., Albury, K., McCosker, A. (2021) Improve Your Play intervention design and evaluation: Literature review. Melbourne: Swinburne University of Technology.