Melbourne Social Equity Institute's new Director, Professor Jo Barraket, speaks about the role of social innovation in 2022.

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The intersecting effects of pandemic, populism and planetary risk are currently amplifying many major social equity issues. At the same time, social innovations initiated by civil society, social economy organisations and cross-sector collaborations are seeking to respond to complex problems that seem more wicked than ever. How effective are these interventions and what is needed to scale or sustain their impacts?

In this seminar, the new director of Melbourne Social Equity Institute, Professor Jo Barraket, will draw on findings from several of her research projects on social innovations in the context of social enterprise, public policy reform, and digitally enabled social change, to consider these questions and the implications for whether and how social innovations can contribute to redressing the major social equity challenges of our time.