school of social work and community welfare
Research activities focus on social
justice issues and social disadvantage. Current and recently completed projects
are listed below.
Social Needs Analyses, Social Policy Development and
Social Planning:
Juvenile justice issues in North Queensland.
Human rights and social
justice.
Competition policy and
human services.
Competitive tendering
in home and community care.
Not for profit organisations:
change and innovation.
Cross-National Studies of Social Policy and Social Welfare:
Cross national studies of community care.
Social care in a changing
rural world.
Cross-national study
of regional development.
Cross-national study
of child care policies.
Rural and Remote Area Social Policy, Human Services Provision and Welfare Practice:
Rural disadvantage in
Australia.
Implications of the rural
decline for social welfare service delivery in rural Australia.
Integrating human services
in remote areas.
Immigrant settlement
in country areas.
The elderly in rural
and remote Australia: some perspectives on social justice and efficiency
in human service delivery.
Ethnic elderly.
Social support in remote
areas: implications for human services.
Working in child welfare.
The needs of patients
and their carers from rural and remote communities.
Rural welfare in Australia.
Human service models
for non-metropolitan areas.
Models of social development
for non-metropolitan areas.
Developing a social justice
research infrastructure for northern Australia.
Rural poverty: sustainable
communities.
Welfare Practice:
Violence against welfare
workers.
Self-help models in Indigenous
communities.
Urban food production
and community development
Empowerment work with
parents of children in care.
Styles of helping in
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Comparative study of
the lives of social welfare workers and service users.
Social activism.
Reconciliation and social
welfare practice.
Gender awareness in men
in welfare and welfare education.
Consumer participation in mental health.
Cross cultural practice.
Buddhism and social work.
Women’s Issues and Social Welfare:
Women the workplace and violence.
Mothers and Attention
Deficit Disorder.
Adoptive mothers’ experiences
through the adoption life cycle.
In search of a woman’s
discourse.
Women’s perception
of breast cancer.
Women’s role
as serving police officers.
Young women and violence.
Women, violence and social
welfare practice.
Female activism in North
Queensland.
The impact of female
circumcision on relationships.
Women’s birthing
experiences in rural Queensland.
Women and human service
organisations.
Feminist organisational
practice.
Women and development.
Women’s services
in Australia and the Asia/Pacific region.
The needs of women asylum
seekers from East Timor.
Domestic Violence:
The
effectiveness of Domestic Violence Protection Orders.
Implementation and evaluation
of an integrated approach to domestic violence.
Evaluation of domestic
violence crisis services.
Development and evaluation
of groups for male perpetrators of domestic violence.
Understanding men who
are violent.
A holistic model of response
to different forms of violence in personal relationships.
How mothers protect their
children from domestic violence.
Welfare of Young People and Children:
Parenting of young children.
Innovative rural youth
services in Queensland.
Child protection in Aboriginal
communities.
Attempted suicide in
young people.
Family support and child
protection.
Children of parents with physical or psychiatric disability.
Children’s rights.
Social Welfare Education:
Continuing
education for welfare practice.
Distance education as
an option for social work and welfare education in the 1990’s.
Anti-racist welfare education.