The existing instruments for measuring poverty have become disconnected from the life events that cause poverty and the adverse outcomes associated with low income.
The purpose of this research project is to explore employment of poor and non-poor aboriginals in urban areas between Australia and Taiwan. The major research method is the secondary data analysis.
This research examines the ageing of people with disability in the supported employment sector (Australian Disability Enterprises) and consider the barriers to retirement for people working in Australian Disability Enterprises.
This project is a retrospective study examining adoption for children from OOHC in NSW. It will examine the experiences and outcomes of young people who have been adopted from OOHC, and the experiences of birth parents during the OOHC adoption process.
Millions of children now rely on support from Chinese child welfare nongovernment organisations. The government is reforming NGO policy in response to public demands about service quality, but it lacks relevant research.
Researchers from SPRC and the Gendered Violence Research Network at UNSW Sydney are undertaking an evaluation of 1800RESPECT, the national online and telephone counselling service for people affected by domestic and family violence and sexual assault.
Parenting and providing support for parents has been identified as a priority issue for the Australian Government. Insight is required to the need or nature of a national policy framework specifically focussing on parenting to underpin, imbed and drive policy and practice.
This project, for Ageing, Disability and Home Care, Department of Communities NSW, consists of a literature review about the role of assistive technology (AT), including home modifications, in supporting people with physical disabilities and complex care needs.
The focus of this study is inequality in early child outcomes across four Anglo-American countries: the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.
Markets, Migration & the Work of Care in Australia is an Australian Research Council-funded project being conducted by a research team across four institutions: UNSW, RMIT, University of Sydney, and University of Toronto.
The Social Policy Research Centre was commissioned to examine the experiences people with intellectual disability have with different employment models.
This project aims to understand the social support experiences of Chinese families with children with disability in Sydney, Beijing, and New York City.
There has been a rise in the number of non-resident parents in Australia over a number of decades, but the policy questions relating to involvement in their children’s lives have only recently become a major issue for policy makers.
This grant under the UNSW Equity Initiative is to commence an Indigenous Women Researcher Mentor Program, aimed at the needs of Indigenous women who are or wish to become academics.
