Marcus Carter

Marcus Carter

Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures and SOAR Fellow
University of Sydney

Marcus Carter is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures at The University of Sydney, and a recipient of the University’s SOAR fellowship in 2018. He is currently the Degree Director for the Master of Digital Communication and Culture, and a co-director of the Socio-Tech Futures Lab, one of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences flagship research themes attempting to address the social, ethical and inclusive challenges with emerging technologies such as VR and AR. His prior work bridges the disciplines of Human-Computer Interaction and Game Studies, with current research projects on children’s digital play, and on the use of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in conservation education

Marcus Carter is also an Honorary Fellow in the Microsoft Social NUI Research Centre, in the Computing and Information Systems department at The University of Melbourne.

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Inclusive and workplace acceptance of refugees
Partnering for refugee employment

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SDG 16
Institutional investors demand a more sustainable capitalism

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SDG15 Bushfires
Optimisation model as a guide to burning forests to save forests

Setting fire to parts of a forest to save it might seem counterintuitive to urban communities. There is no equivalent of torching a few streets to protect a suburb. However, amongst First Nations people in Australia, hazard reduction burning is a well-established practice.

SDG13 - coal mining
Net zero now – it’s the economy AND the planet

In Australia, as elsewhere, the climate wars have focused on the climate versus jobs dichotomy. Yet while Australia remains highly dependent on fossil fuel extraction for its national economic prosperity it has also become increasingly unequal in its distribution of that wealth.