The Hunt Lab is an interdisciplinary research team in the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne.
Our work sits at the intersection of the sciences, social sciences, and the arts, and we collaborate with colleagues across the University, at other Australian institutions, and internationally. We partner with government, NGOs, and industry through research projects, professional development training, and bespoke advisory services.
Our research spans several problem domains, including intelligence and security studies, grand strategy, futures thinking and risk analysis, and disinformation and malign influence. Across these areas, we develop and apply methods for improving how individuals and groups reason about hard problems — including expert elicitation, structured group deliberation (such as Delphi techniques), crowdsourcing and citizen science, and approaches for augmenting human analysis with AI. We are interested both in the substantive questions these domains raise and in the methodological challenge of investigating them well.
Alongside our research, we teach and train. We contribute to undergraduate teaching in the Faculty of Science, are developing a Graduate Certificate in Intelligence and Security Studies, and deliver professional development courses in analytic thinking, argumentation, disinformation, and strategic analysis to clients across the public and private sectors.
Contact
For enquiries, please email Dr Morgan Saletta - msaletta@unimelb.edu.au