Dr Chris K Wilson

Biography

Dr Chris K Wilson is Research Fellow with the Centre for Social Impact at Swinburne University of Technology. For more than 20 years, he has been involved in planning and conducting interdisciplinary social research that engages concepts and methodologies drawn from economics, human geography, history, media studies, education, and policy studies. Chris is currently the principal Research Fellow for the Australian Digital Inclusion Index (ADII) project (digitalinclusionindex.org.au), a collaborative venture between Swinburne University, RMIT University, Telstra and Roy Morgan Research that seeks to measure the level and nature of digital inclusion registered by Australians over time. Chris’ other ongoing research centres on media and communications infrastructure. He is currently completing a book on the history of Australian youth radio as well as an investigation into the impact that liberalisation of access to broadcast spectrum in Australia in the 1990s had on social and cultural innovation.