Dr Katie Moon
I am a researcher, educator and consultant, seeking to reimagine a better and more just world for all species.
I’m here to share knowledge, assist with social science research design and improve social data literacy.
Welcome.
Engage in the social sciences with Katie
1:1 and small group consults
Engage Katie to assist with your own social science research project. She can advise on framing research questions, collecting and analysing data and interpreting results.
Social science for policy
Enhance your policy design, implementation and evaluation with social science data. Engage Katie to design and administer social research to inform your policy work.
Attend a workshop
Uncover how governments can embed social science into their practices for improved societal outcomes.
New to social science?
The social sciences are a group of disciplines that explore human societies, their structures, and how people behave within them. Social scientists use a variety of methods to understand and analyse social trends, phenomena, cultures, and institutions. This knowledge is used to inform public policy, education, and foster positive societal changes.
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Are you curious about what motivates people? About what information different people trust and why? Do you think about the ways in which different cultures operate and what we might learn from each other? Who has power and what it enables them to do? These are the kinds of questions social scientists seek to find the answers to.
Find some examples of what we can ask in the social sciences here.
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Social scientists examine the different ways in which we can create knowledge. Whose or what knowledge do we need to understand or solve a problem and how do we engage with those knowledges ethically and meaningfully? How do we deal with different or conflicting knowledges? How do we navigate the relationships between knowledge and power?
Find out how social science research design engages with these questions.
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Policy problems are social problems. As such, we need to unjust and inclusive outcomesderstand people, the experiences they’ve had, the values they hold and the nature of their knowledge in finding solutions to policy problems. Integrating the social sciences into policy settings is crucial in delivering effective, just and inclusive outcomes.
Find out how social science can help your policy here.
Find out how social science can work for you
How social scientists approach questions, select methods, interpret data, and derive conclusions is influenced by underlying philosophical assumptions and perspectives. Discover your paradigm now.
Social science for research
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Social science for policy
Social science provides evidence-based insights into human behaviour, social structures, and cultural dynamics to support effective policies. Find out how social science can assist with your policy or program.
Explore the social sciences
Use the guide
Explore how an understanding of social science methods and philosophy can improve both policy-making and research.
Read the resources
Access Katie’s social science publications across her three main research themes.
Attend a workshop
Learn the basics of social science research design to assist with understanding the different design options and their underlying assumptions.
Collaborate with Katie
Design - Research - Workshop
Are you interested in transformational change? In thinking outside the box and rejecting the status quo? Are you keen to innovate with social science methods? Do you want to challenge power structures and improve justices for all species? Yes? Then I’d love to hear from you.
I work on the beautiful lands of the Walbunja people of the Yuin Nation. I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging and acknowledge these lands were never ceded.
