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The Australian Centre for Social Innovation

Pip Bergin

Senior Social Innovator

Pip Bergin
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Working on Kaurna Lands

Pip has been part of the TACSI team since early 2020. As a Senior Social Innovator, Learning Hub Coordinator and network weaver, she splits her time between working on big societal problems affecting communities alongside partners and the people most impacted by these challenges, and leading the Learning Hub to share social innovation in practice – supporting individuals, communities and organisations to strengthen capability, adopt what works for their context, and access great learning experiences.

Pip previously worked in the City of Adelaide Strategy & Design team and with the Australian Bureau of Statistics. She has a Masters of Social Science (Environment and Planning), which further sparked her interest in foregrounding communities in decision-making.

Day-to-day, Pip plays a key role in the TACSI Learning Hub, Good Death Impact Network and Our Town initiatives, and is passionate about the impact that community-led social innovation has on shifting power, systems and mindsets. Possessing a deep empathy and a natural, easy approach with people, Pip seamlessly bounces from big picture to intricate detail. This allows her to hold the nitty gritty details of project management alongside the heart-led relational part of TACSI’s work; connecting people across networks who are leading the way to a better future for their community is one of her favourite parts of her job.

Endlessly curious with a strong desire to learn, Pip loves throwing herself into new experiences and situations. Pip always strives towards a future where people’s hearts and minds shift from “that’s how it’s always been done” to “what if we…”. She loves working alongside incredible members of the community and learning from our partners and her colleagues, especially the gold nuggets of wisdom shared in yarns gone by with Aunty Vickey.

In her downtime, you’ll find Pip cooking, eating out, reading cookbooks – basically anything and everything to do with food.

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Pip's project highlights

Our Town

Our Town

Our Town, a long-term regional mental health initiative funded by the Fay Fuller Foundation and in partnership with TACSI and Clear Horizon, aims to build the capabilities of regional towns in South Australia to develop community responses to mental health.

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