Our Projects

Money matters. It can determine, how we live, how stressed we feel and what options are available to us, now and in the future. The ability to manage money and cope with unexpected financial shocks is important for individuals, households and the economy.

Over the past five years Australian Policy Online has become a key element of the national information structure, delivering research reports and other research-related material to a large and growing group of researchers in universities, government and the professions.

UNICEF China has commissioned the Social Policy Research Centre to produce a background paper that examines child rights in China in the context of migration, urbanisation and climate change.

SPRC is conducting a baseline study for use in the evaluation of the New Income Management (NIM) scheme in the Northern Territory, which is set to commence in early 2011.

This project is monitoring and assessing the journey of SDN Children’s Services in ‘becoming and being’ an integrated organisation.

Led by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, the project produced practical best practice guidelines and examples for recruitment, support, training and retention to optimise outcomes for people with disability.

Project Description: This project has been commissioned by Campbell Page, a non-government organisation which provides job placement services throughout Australia. People with mental health problems are a primary client group of job placement services.

The Better Futures Regional Strategy was put in place to improve the health, education and safety outcomes of young people by improving the ways in which communities and services support young people and respond to their needs.

The South Australian government is transferring the management of public housing dwellings to the community housing sector, under the Better Places, Stronger Communities (BPSC) project.