Research
Current Research Projects
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Preventing violence against young women exposed to the criminal justice system
Developing recommendations for violence prevention programs for justice-involved young women
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Why do they do that? An investigation into the perpetrator perspective of technology facilitated abuse
Understanding the motivations and tactics of perpetrators engaging in technology facilitated abuse
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Understanding and improving mental health care for culturally diverse LGBTQIA+ young people
Creating evidence with, and for, young people who have intersectional experiences of sexuality, gender, and cultural diversity
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Understanding digital inequality in Victoria
Combining a state-wide inequality analysis with an in-depth examination of lived experiences of digital inequality to assist community advocates and policymakers in their work towards greater digital equality
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Invisible mothers: young Pasifika women, health inequalities and negotiating wellbeing
Exploring the priorities and practices that constitute motherhood for young Pasifika mothers in Melbourne
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Getting back on Country: traditional owner-led repatriation, digitisation and exhibition design of Olkola cultural archives
Combining participatory design, mixed reality technologies, archaeological science and digital cultural heritage to deliver innovative solutions for the repatriation of Olkola heritage
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Understanding the role of mental health in online gambling choices
Identifying targets for law reform to reduce harm from gambling through an economic experiment that explores how mental health relates to problem gambling
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Support for consumer transactions
Working with consumers and industry to develop practices and processes to improve access for consumers with disabilities.
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The SEREDA Project
Sexual and gender-based violence against refugees: experiences from displacement to arrival
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The living archive of Aboriginal art
Developing a digital living archive where Indigenous artists can connect their work in ways reflecting Indigenous worldviews.
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Developing a model for peer support in emergency departments
Improving supports for people experiencing mental distress in emergency departments
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Talking hunger: understanding food insecurity on campus
Understanding and addressing food insecurity at the University of Melbourne
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The Burndawan Project: Co-designing technology to support Indigenous people experiencing family violence
A project with the Wadawurrung community
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Co-producing safe, inclusive work places for mental health consumer workers
How should we change the mental health system to safely include consumer workers?
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Experiences and wellbeing of African students at the University of Melbourne
Understanding and improving the student experience.
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Reintegration and resettlement: Post-release family and community support for African-Australians in Victoria
Investigating the post-release support needs of African-Australians who have been imprisoned in Victoria
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Model laws to regulate the use of restraint on persons with disabilities
Addressing the current lack of a common legal framework for regulating the use of restraint on persons with disabilities in mental health, disability and aged care sectors.
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Exploring the value of rhythm-based support with children who have experienced trauma
How can drumming and hip-hop be used to support young people in out of home care?
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The WEAVERs Project
The WEAVERs are a panel of survivors of violence against women.
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Violence prevention and respectful relationships
Violence prevention approaches within social policy across the life course, starting in early childhood.
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Listening for (a) change
Identifying strategies for preventing family violence through dialogical research with women with refugee backgrounds.
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Supporting refugee-background students
Supporting outreach, recruitment and retention of students from refugee backgrounds at the University of Melbourne.
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Improving management practices to integrate refugees and people seeking asylum
Developing effective management practices to integrate refugees and people seeking asylum into Australian workplaces.
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Is zero-tolerance to violence a zero-sum game?
Perceptions of 'dangerousness' and issues of equity in mental health settings.
Completed Projects
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Co-designing business education programs with the African-Australian community
What are the barriers to success for African-Australians in business and how can we address them?
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Choice, control and the NDIS
To what extent is the National Disability Insurance Scheme achieving its aims and objectives from the perspective of people with disability?
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Unfitness to plead project
Practical options to address the problem of people with cognitive impairments being found “unfit to plead” and subjected to indefinite detention in Australia.
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Count me in
Promoting wellbeing and inclusion through sports participation for migrant and refugee-background young people.
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Ethical fashion and preventing violence in Bangladesh
This project examines the role of ethical fashion enterprises in Bangladesh in the primary prevention of violence against women.
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Understanding elder abuse
Definitions, evidence and interventions.
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Supported decision-making for people with severe mental health problems
Options for supported decision-making to enhance the recovery of people with severe mental health problems.
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Who cares?
Examining the invisibility of migrant women in care and domestic work in Australia.
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19 stories of social inclusion
Lessons from the lives of everyday Australians on belonging, disability and community contribution.
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Routes to the past
Exploring the identity and well-being of care leavers through genealogical lifestory work.
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Public attitudes towards asylum seekers and refugees
What is the basis for the attitudes Australian voters hold towards asylum seekers and what role does the media play?
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Refugee-background children in Australia
Understanding of the complex processes required for social inclusion for refugee-background children in Australia.
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Enabling socially-inclusive and ethical visual methodologies
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The f word: crossdisciplinary feminist art in Australia
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Imagining Muslim women: examining the effects of images in women’s human rights campaigns
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Reconceptualising and supporting disaster recovery as growth: informed by people affected by the Black Saturday bushfires
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Impact and sustainability of creative social enterprises
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Disability and poverty in Cambodia
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Empathy and portrayals of mental illness in Australian visual culture
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Topographical community accessibility modelling for people with mobility impairments
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Intimate partner violence and women's economic security across the lifecourse
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Future Melbourne Network
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Overcoming barriers to affordable housing
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Place, health and liveability
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Transforming housing: affordable housing for all
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Getting in touch: language and digital inclusion in Australian Indigenous communities
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Reviewing opportunities to engage with Indigenous Australian students
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Strengthening the Victorian Aboriginal community's response to methamphetamine use
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National seclusion and restraint project
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How are low protection workers regulated?
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Poverty, family chronic-stress and children's development
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Using theatre to raise awareness of HIV and PrEP
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Citizens at work: an investigation of the work of giving and getting welfare
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Building the evidence: responding to the needs of recently arrived refugee and asylum seeker populations
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Enabling pluralism: eliminating educational inequity in languages provision in Victorian schools
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Revisiting disadvantage: supporting new strength-based approaches to belonging and social inclusion for young people in education
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Creating a digital platform for capturing children’s and adolescent’s views of contemporary Australian childhood from the ground up
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The bounce project: peer support training for young people leaving Out of Home Care, to improve social inclusion, mental health and wellbeing
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The citizens' agenda: exploring ways of improving political news coverage and increasing political engagement
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Assessing and building social investment opportunities that preserve Indigenous cultures
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Understanding female genital cutting in inner Melbourne
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Sharing place, learning together
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Understanding place-based racism and fostering local interculturalism
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Contested waterfronts: informality, floods and capital in Indonesian cities
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