Co-designing a national mental wellbeing strategy

42% of accountants have considering resigning in the past 12 months due to stress. Mental health is critical to BDO, not only for employee wellbeing, but also for business success. How do you re-engineer the entire employee experience for wellbeing?

BDO Australia

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Design

Bringing unity to a national organisation through values

How do you design company values that actually work to influence behaviour? What makes Values jump off the wall into people's hearts and minds?

BDO Australia

Mental Health

Improving the mental health of refugee children

There are more than 65 million refugees and displaced people around the world—many of whom experience significantly poor mental health. Art therapy is an effective tool for treating trauma, but more scalable approaches are needed.

spur:org

Impact Measurement

Embedding impact metrics in counter-extremism solutions

Digital platforms can harbour and proliferate hate and violent extremism. Tech Against Terrorism is an initiative that helps tech companies prevent their platforms from being exploited for such purposes. Combating front-line violence is one thing, but how do tech companies measure their effectiveness at prevention?

Tech Against Terrorism

Mental Health

Learning vulnerability at the pub

Mental health is a significant problem in Australia, but moving people to take action can be challenging. Providing engaging, subversive and novel ways for people to "practice" being vulnerable are needed.

spur:org

Homelessness

Innovating on fundraising strategies for youth homelessness

NGOs are only as robust as their resourcing. As a relatively small charity, Chameleon Youth Housing needed to design not just a campaign, but a multi-year strategy to build their organisational sustainability.

Chameleon House

Mental Health

The world's largest real-time mental health survey

In order to improve the mental health of people around the world, we need to better understand how people are feeling in more nuanced ways. How is the World Feeling? is a project to ask everyone exactly that.

spur:org

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We've worked across six continents, on projects big and small, with corporations, non-profits, governments, and community groups.

We love tackling wicked problems that create real human and social change.

If you're interested in improving the state the of the world, we'd love to work with you.

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What We're up to right now

Working with our heart-warming friends at The Common Good on donor behaviour strategies to further fund important medical research.

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Soaking up all things travel, behaviour, and design for a brand engagement project with Sunshine Coast Council.

Releasing new research into the impact of COVID-19 on elder Australians and how the pandemic and associated restrictions have increased feelings of social isolation and loneliness.

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Recovering from hosting the UNLEASH Australia Hack for the SDGs, focusing on social isolation and loneliness. Well done to all the teams!

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Welcoming the latest visionary to the spur: team: Kai, a seeing eye dog in training who'll be living with us for the next few months preparing for his important job ahead.