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Additional file 2. Results from Triple C Delphi Panel, Rounds 1-3.

Additional file 1. Example question from Round 2 of the Delphi process.

Additional file 3. Suggested materials put forward by panel members to support case study evaluations and the role of context in complex interventions.

Additional file 4. Qualitative comments during the Delphi process.

Workplaces are increasingly looking to expand their equity and diversity work to understand how to address aspects of identity that intersect with gender or sexuality, and with genders and sexualities beyond binary (M/F) understandings. There are solid business and moral cases that can be made for this expansion. The Sexualities and Genders Research Stream at WSU approach this area from a social justice lens, reflecting WSU's key commitment to the principle of Equity. WSU is emerging as a national leader for research into intersectionality and the inclusion of trans* and gender diversity, in gender equity across the sector.

This report documents one of the largest mixed methods studies to date examining informal help support provided by young people to their friends. We report on national survey data (n=169), as well as focus group data with 34 young people aged 16 - 25 who provide support to their friends. Specifically, the study examines the experiences of friends who support friends through tough times by focusing on how they perform this support, what resources young supporters use and have access to, what constrains this support and what they might need to enable the support they provide to their friends and peers. Our findings show the critical work young people are doing as supporters and documents the careful personalised support they offer their friends. Following sector consultations and discussions with young people, we offer key recommendations to ensure young people are resourced and supported in their care practices.

Additional file 1. Example search strategy.

To date, this report is the largest qualitative study of sexuality and gender diverse young people and their use of social media platforms. This study had two broad aims: firstly to better understand the ways sexuality and gender diverse young people are engaging with social media platforms, and secondly, using a rapid prototyping methodological design, to reimagine with young people the ways platforms can respond to LGBTQIA+ young people’s needs. This ‘reimagining’ explored how platforms could better support queer young peoples experiences of design features, through policy, moderation and organisational measures.

University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Increasingly information and communication technologies (ICTs) are being used in community development settings in the global south to enhance human wellbeing outcomes. In this thesis I examine the construction, implementation and impact of three transnational ICTs targeting queer youth, and those working in/around and/or affected by HIV, developed by a community development organisation in Asia. This multi-site mixed methods study follows these three resources from development through to implementation and impact, as they move through on/offline spaces. In examining the design and construction, as well as implementation and impact of these ICT resources I use Sen’s (1999) Capability Approach. I also draw on Bourdieu’s concepts of capital and habitus, as well as recent work on affect and new technologies (Ash, 2014). My findings indicate the importance of symbolic affective markers (Ahmed, 2004) that are incorporated into the design of objects to orientate bodies towards them. These symbolic representations and markers seek to cumulatively engineer particular affects into digitally intimate objects, which work to orientate users towards the objects for the capabilities they can (potentially) enhance. In this way design considerations take into account the contextual capability deficits and structural inequalities (potential) users are likely to experience, and in so doing, use affect as a tool to respond to these concerns. As the affective intensities of these markers come into contact with (potential) users they leave imprints, or ‘affective afterlives’ (Ash, 2014). In doing so, both the producers and consumers come into contact extending the objects’ reach across multiple networks in both private and public spaces. My findings indicate that this creates new forms of support and engagement for some, and results in on/offline encounters of personal sharing as well as debate and discussion about queer lives and discourses around HIV. This extends their existing capital and capabilities, and contributes to a broader life politics that is contextualised within local geographic space. For others, they orientate away from the artefacts when they do not have the capabilities to include them in their practices, or where the resources do not meet their capability needs. I conclude by considering the implications for a capability-focused design approach to technological artefacts and argue for the importance of considering both affect and the (potential) users’ existing capabilities in thinking through the possibilities of ICTs in development projects.