Public Studies

Because we help leaders who are frequently in the public eye, THINK reports and studies are sometimes released publicly. Some make the case for change, others set out a roadmap for getting there. Some do both. Here is a sample of our work which recently been released into the public domain to feed discussion and debate on important social and political issues.

Changing Together: perceptions and proposals for reform from the migration advice community.

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Changing Together: perceptions and proposals for reform from the migration advice community.

Prepared for: Migration Agents Registration Authority

Release date: 30 June 2009

Changing Together is being released at critical juncture in the history of the migration advice profession. While THINK was initially commissioned to evaluate improvements in the quality of migration advice over the past ten years while the Authority was under the management of the Migration Institute of Australia, the scope broadened when the Minister announced that statutory self-regulation would be discontinued on July 1 2009. As a result, stakeholders broadened their comments to include many myriad issues.

The report provides both a platform and a blueprint for wide-ranging change. It includes the qualitative and quantitative findings of stakeholder opinion and an action plan, developed by migration community representatives in response to those findings. The research process that was used is described here (www.thinkinsightadvice.com.au/insight.php) and the action plan was developed using THINK’s proprietary “Committee Process” which is illustrated (www.thinkinsightadvice.com.au/advice.php)

For more information, visit:
www.themara.com.au or www.mia.org.au

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Thermometer Survey

Thermometer Survey is one of Australia’s first comprehensive social surveys of community knowledge, attitudes, values, beliefs and intentions in response to climate change. Grounded in the most recent scholarship of risk communication theory, Thermometer is designed to serve as an on-going monitor of how Australians perceive the threat of climate change and a gauge of their intentions to mitigate or adapt to it in future.

Founded in 2008 by Phillip Mitchell-Taverner and Randall Pearce and operated by Think Taverner Pty Ltd, a partnership between Taverner Research and Think: Insight & Advice Pty Ltd, Thermometer Survey was offered as a commercial syndicated research service until early 2010.

A decision was subsequently made to donate the intellectual property, historical data and trademarks to the newly-formed Thermometer Foundation for Social Research on Climate Change so that the original vision of Thermometer as an ongoing monitor of community opinion could be continued and enhanced.

For more information on the Foundation, please visit:  http://thermometerrising.wordpress.com/