The Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) undertakes comprehensive research on the everyday lived experience of digital cultures, mobile media, platforms, workplaces and settings. Working with a wide array of partners and collaborators in Australia and internationally, we undertake people-centric data collection, design and analysis to help governments, industry and the community make sense of changing factors in our digital lives, including digital harms, AI, disinformation, emergent mobile technologies and online economies. 

Hosted by RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, DERC offers world class expertise for both small and large-scale research initiatives. We are the first and largest research centre in Australia focused on digital ethnography.

DERC Research and Advisory Services

Digital Ethnography Research and Advisory Services delivers data, analyses and insights to help partners navigate the complex world of digital communication and culture. Our experts help our partners create positive change with their communities.

We provide innovative social sciences, humanities and creative research solutions focused particularly on the lived experience of digital settings, workplaces, policy and platforms, often in combination with more traditional methods such as interviews, surveys, statistical and data analysis and policy assessment to provide our partners with valuable insights into how people engage with, and are impacted by, the digital ecology that constitutes our daily lives.

We can build the right team of experts to help partners with digital research, policy analysis, emergent online practices and new technologies, using a range of research methods to meet strategic needs.  

More info on our services and capabilities: https://www.rmit.edu.au/research/centres-collaborations/digital-ethnography-research-centre/research-and-advisory-services

Get in touch if you would like to discuss any of our services:
- digital.ethnography@rmit.edu.au or rob.cover@rmit.edu.au