People who have had issues with alcohol are being invited to participate in an anonymous UNSW study which is hoping to find out how people overcome the habit.
The workshop was jointly organised by the School of Social and Population Studies of Renmin University of China and the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) with the theme of Anti-Poverty Policy.
UNSW Sydney and the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) have joined together in a five-year partnership to tackle poverty and inequality in Australia.
The Drug Policy Modelling Program at UNSW has been generating new evidence to inform policy, translating evidence into useful information for decision-makers, and studying policy processes.
Dr Natasha Cortis and Dr Abigail Powell from UNSW Sydney, have been awarded the Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance Mary Parket Follette Award for 2018.
Technological innovation is transforming human society fundamentally. It has already reshaped the ways people think about vulnerabilities and disadvantages. It has brought new challenges to policy makers as well as opportunities.
Academics from the Social Policy Research Centre have been successful in securing an ARC Linkage Grant to begin in 2018 out of the Learned Academies Special Projects grant scheme.
We're pleased to announce that four scholars, Jodie Kidd, Axelle Marjolin, Sarah Mortimer and Karen Wilcox, have been awarded prestigious Scientia PhD Scholarships to study at the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC), commencing in 2018.
SPRC has partnered with SBS for season two of their TV program Struggle Street, an observational documentary about “the realities of social and economic hardship”.
The Social Policy Research Centre hosted an international workshop called 'Establishing Effective Child Protection Systems in the World - A Dialogue between Australia and China'.
Changes to the delivery of disability and aged care services are making it harder for many carers* to take a break, says a newly established network of organisations that either deliver, broker or evaluate carer respite across New South Wales (NSW