Our Projects

The Chinese government has begun to purchase child welfare services to address vast unmet need.

This research aims to investigate the effectiveness of policy solutions to support the attraction, retention and progression of women professionals throughout their careers in the engineering and construction industry.

Collaboration with City Future (Faculty of the Built Environment) for Human Services, Housing NSW.

This project aims to explore an integrated suite of policies for a preventative approach to enhance mature-aged women’s participation in the labour market, with a particular focus on fostering employment choices for women with current or past informal caring responsibilities.

This project seeks to conduct a rigorous comparative analysis of policies towards sole/single parents surrounding family leave in each country.

Formal services such as respite care can assist carers to continue to support care recipients at home. However, many carers do not take up these services. To date, studies examining the issue of service non-use have had to extrapolate from data about service users.

Concepts of social inclusion mainly focus on participation in public sphere activities, often overlooking the constraints of the private sphere, such as informal care.

This project explores whether the propensity to take on informal care roles (for people who are frail aged or have disability or long term health problems) is changing/will change over time with cohort/generational and other societal and social policy changes.

People face large fluctuations in their incomes and costs over their lifetime.

Both earnings and social transfers are important determinants of the living standards of disadvantaged families with children.

This project involves a literature review and stakeholder consultation on child protection and respectful relationships education and best practice in school settings, to be conducted between November 2015 and March 2016.

The New Zealand Government is attempting to reform its child protection system.

The project aims to provide a systematic and integrated review of available evidence on the extent and severity of child poverty and hardship (including health-related deficiencies), an analysis of past policies to assess their impact on the well-being of children, recommendation of ways in which

Having a child with a disability can place significant stress on families. It may negatively affect a family’s working, social and home life as well as their financial security (Dowling and Dolan, 2001: 21).