school of social work and community welfare
The main research activities focus
on Child Welfare, Third Sector Organisations, and Health and Mental
Health. Current and recently completed projects are listed below.
Families, children and young people
Families, crime and juvenile justice;
Parents’ role
in the sentencing of children;
Cross-national study of child care policies;
Working in child welfare;
Comparative study of the lives of social welfare workers
and service users;
Violence against welfare workers;
Empowerment work with parents of children in care;
Parenting of young children;
Child protection in Aboriginal communities;
Attempted suicide in young people;
Family support and child protection;
Children of parents with physical or psychiatric
disability;
Cost benefit analysis of the foster care system;
What makes a good foster carer;
Foster children with disabilities;
Foster care for Indigenous and Australian South Sea
Islander children;
Education training and support needs of foster
carers;
Women’s perceptions of their role and values
as foster carers;
A critical discourse analysis of a parenting education
program;
Social welfare history of services for children and
families;
Children in the Townsville Orphanage,
1878-1911.
Third Sector organisations
Not
for profit organisations: change and innovation;
Social care in a changing
rural world;
Cross-national study
of regional development;
Implications of the rural decline for social welfare
service delivery in rural Australia;
Social support in remote areas: implications for human
services;
Models of social development for non-metropolitan
areas;
The essence of self in the social work
relationship.
Health and mental health
The
needs of patients and their carers from rural and remote
communities;
Consumer participation
in mental health;
The Laceweb social movement
for psychosocial healing.
Women and gender
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;
Young women’s
views on dating, violence, sexuality and feminism;
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;
Implementation and evaluation of an integrated approach
to domestic violence;
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;
Gender awareness in men in welfare and welfare
education.
Indigenous and cross-cultural practice
Anti-racist welfare education;
Reconciliation and social welfare practice;
Styles of helping in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
cultures;
Buddhism and social work;
Immigrant settlement in country areas;
Child protection in Aboriginal
communities.
Non-specified research
The
perceptions of blind people about others and
themselves.