#funpolice: what do social media responses to the Australian ‘lockout laws’ tell us about trust and support for public health regulation?
Project leader(s)
In 2016, two years after new alcohol control legislation (i.e. the lockout laws) went into effect in New South Wales, 70% of voters supported the legislation – by 2018 this declined to 48%. This project will analyse Twitter data regarding these laws (2014-2018) to understand how online publics construct social media narratives around controversial public health issues and public posturing towards related regulatory policy (i.e. liking and willingness to comply). This will inform tailored strategies for policy stakeholders seeking to build legitimacy and trust in public health regulation. Funded by the Asia-Pacific Innovation Program, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU (2019-2020).
Sharni Goldman
Sharni Goldman is a social science health researcher and PhD scholar at RegNet. She is interested in the social dimensions of efforts to address climate change including the impacts of mitigation...
Dr Ashley Schram
Ashley is a Braithwaite Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) and Deputy Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Governance. From 2017-2019 Ashley led a programme of...
Society, safety and health
The Society, Safety and Health cluster has four research themes:
- Policy processes and the social determinants of health inequities
- Governance for health equity
- Food systems, nutrition and climate change
- Regulation and governance of health care systems
