AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL PROJECT: YOUNG CHILDREN IN DIGITAL SOCIETY

Unpacking our evolving digital society and its evolving digital demands on children, young people and families.

Project Synthesis is one of several partners on a current project funded by the Australian Research Council that aims to generate new knowledge around practices enacted by and shared amongst children, young people, families and educators in digital society. With a focus on how these practices enable inter-institutional collaboration, the project aims to produce an empirically informed service provision in areas including quality digital media production, early childhood cyber-safety education, digital play, and digital parenting in the early years.

This project, Young children in digital society: an online tool for service provision, commenced in 2020 and will culminate in 2023. Project Synthesis is working alongside a number of expert researchers and research partners including Professor Susan Edwards (Australian Catholic University), Professor Leon Straker (Curtain University), Professor Susan Grieshaber (La Trobe University), Professor Andrea Nolan (Deakin University), Professor Michael Henderson (Monash University), Professor Helen Skouteris (Monash University), Dr Andi Salmon (Charles Sturt University), Dr Kate Highfield (Early Childhood Australia), Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Australian Federal Police (AFP), Deeper Richer, Early Childhood Australia Inc. (ECA), Office of the eSafety Commission (OeSC) and Raising Children Network Australia.