Australian Centre for Community Services Research
Student Research
The areas of research that our higher degree research students focus on include:
- Ageing, technology, digital divide
- Australian legal aid policy
- Child abuse - child protection
- Child sexual abuse
- Foster care
- Health services research
- Mental health, addictions, organisational culture, tobacco smoking
- Social work education
- International social work
- Suicide
- Social policy and homelessness
The gate into Djugerari community, Lesley Cooper and Margaret Bowden (Flinders University). Picture taken by Peter Bridge, UFPA, our guide
UFPA nutritionist from the UFPA Nutrition in Schools program explaining food colour coding to children at the Warmun Community School. Photo courtesy UFPA, WA
Research
Our research aims to critically analyse the administration and implementation of social welfare policies and services as well as the field of social work education. We hope that though our reserach we can foster imagination and lateral thinking in achieving towards social justice.
A focus group being held by one of our staff
Recent Publications
Our areas of interest include:
Loss and grief
Dementia and care giving
Social work practice effectiveness
Humour in coping
Social Support (special interest cancer)
Psycho-social health
Health related quality of live
Consumer participation in health
Social workers within the multidisciplinary health team - clinical and
research setting
Higher education
Teaching and learning in the practicum
Child and family welfare practice
Aged care
Addiction
Alternative care
Disability theory, policy analysis & disability service evaluation
Loss and trauma arising from unjust social policy
Social work and moral philosophy
Social work and spirituality
Social work, social justice and social decency
Bereavement and loss
Technology and older people
Teaching and learning in the field practicum
Collaborative learning, including group supervision,
mentoring and developing partnerships in learning
Social work practice in the community
child and family welfare practice
Women and social work
Suicidal journey
Interface between researchers and practitioners, particularly in areas
of mental health
Quality of life for people in end of life stage
Experiences of adolescents while interacting through the Internet
Social and psychological impacts of chatrooms on adolescents
Quality of life of persons with first episode psychosis
Quality of life of persons with schizophrenia
Gambling among university students
Community work
Urban space and collective action
Citizenship and local democracy
Empowerment evaluation
Data analysis and quantitative analysis
Social policy
Measurement of living standards
Comparative social policy
Poverty and inequality