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.
Social welfare history.
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.
Anti-racist welfare education.