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Citizenship and participation
Disability and participation
Chair: Scott Burrows (Social Policy Research Centre)
Heidegger, Dasein and disability: re-thinking what it means to be ‘human’
Terri Fealy
School of History and Philosophy, UNSW
Abstract
Citizenship and social participation: opportunities created through the disability independent living movement
Carmel Laragy
La Trobe University
Abstract
Impact of Chinese disability accommodation support policy on participation
Karen Fisher
Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
Abstract
Life expectancy, ageing, disability and demand for disability services
Xingyan Wen
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Income distribution and social inequalities
Social exclusion
Chair: Gerry Redmond, Social Policy Research Centre
Has mutual obligation made life harder for the unemployed? Evidence from two social surveys
Peter Saunders and Yuvisthi Naidoo
Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
Abstract
Left out and missing out: deprivation and social exclusion in Australia
Peter Saunders, Yuvisthi Naidoo and Megan Griffiths
Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
Abstract
Who are the most vulnerable to financial exclusion?
Sherman Chan
Social Policy Research Centre and the School of Social Science and International Studies, UNSW
Abstract
Poverty amongst privilege: child social exclusion in Boroondara
Janet Stanley, Kemran Mestan, Chi Wai Ng
Brotherhood of St Laurence
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Labour market participation and welfare reform
Welfare to work
Chair: Sheila Shaver, Emeritus Professor, University of Western Sydney and Social Policy Research Centre
Incentives and capabilities in Australian welfare to work policy
Peter Davidson
Australian Council of Social Services
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Assessing the policy assumptions and lived realities of welfare-to-work transitions
Greg Marston and Catherine McDonald
The University of Queensland, RMIT University
Abstract (Paper available for download)
‘People often say oh bludger or whatever, they don’t try and think what could be going on’: understanding the complexities around labour force participation
Kath Hulse and Lise Saugeres
Institute for Social Research
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Autonomy and capacity building in active income support policies for Australian single parents
Michelle Brady
Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Canada
Abstract
Citizenship and participation
Ethics, morality and language in a neo-liberal society
Chair: David Abello, Social Policy Research Centre
Radical change or more of the same under neoliberalism? The ‘life course’ of public attitudes towards social citizenship in New Zealand
Louise Humpage
Auckland University
Abstract
At home in the world: the moral and political language of homelessness
Andrew Hollows
RMIT University and Hanover Welfare Services
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Dialling up disadvantage: ethical issues when a journalist wants to speak to a ‘poor person’.
Ingrid van Steenwyk and Karen Bevan
UnitingCare Burnside
Abstract
‘Make your own way there’: neo-liberal public policy
Joanne Baker
James Cook University
Abstract
Organisation and delivery of human services
Child and family support services among Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities
Chair:
From Indigenous child welfare to indigenous community well being
Terri Libesman
University of Technology, Sydney
Abstract
Participatory evaluation in practice: challenges and early lessons with an Aboriginal-community run centre for Aboriginal boys
Catherine Spooner, Saul Flaxman Colleen Murray, MaryAnn Seymour, Lisa Jackson Pulver, John Howard, and Elizabeth Moore
Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW, Tirkandi Inaburra. Muru Marri Indigenous Health Unit, UNSW, Ted Noffs Foundation, and Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt University
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Transition to governance: building capacity in an Indigenous community
Fiona Mawson, Miranda Madgwick, Jane Judd and Doseena Fergie
Yarra Valley Community Health Service
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Family support programs and social inclusion: early findings from the evaluation of the Intensive Family Support program at the Womens Centre Cairns
Genevieve Sinclair
James Cook University and Womens Centre, Cairns
Abstract
Children and young people
Effective support for children in out-of-home care
Chair: Ann Dadich, Social Policy Research Centre
Working towards a guarantee for kids in out-of-home care
Rani Kumar and Linda Frow
UnitingCare Burnside and NSW Council of Social Services
Abstract
Cost benefit analysis of the Campbelltown Community Service Centre restoration project
Nicola Robinson
NSW Department of Community Services
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Families, work and care
Parenting and work in diverse family forms
Chair: Jacqueline Tudball, Social Policy Research Centre
Housework, babies and divorce: does domestic fairness promote second births and/or relationship survival?
Lyn Craig and Pooja Sawrikar
Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
Abstract
Keeping the balance: the experiences of lesbian parents
Margot Rawsthorne
University of Sydney
Abstract
One decade on: teenage mothers talk about parenting
Ann Evans
The Australian National University
Abstract
Changes in patterns of post-separation parenting over time
Bruce Smyth, Nick Richardson, Ruth Weston and Lawrie Moloney
Australian National University, Australian Institute of Family Studies and La Trobe University
Abstract
Retirement and ageing
Ageing well: diversity, economy and community
Chair: Cathy Thomson, Social Policy Research Centre
Baby boomers: are they a new wave?
Sol Encel
Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
Abstract
Will Australia’s baby boomers change their retirement plans in line with government calls for later retirement?
Natalie Jackson and Maggie Walter
University of Tasmania
Abstract
Ulyssean ageing: an alternative model for the third age
Jenny Onyx and Rosemary Leonard
University of Technology, Sydney and the University of Western Sydney
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Building a model of collaboration to help communities age well
Jeni Warburton, Jo-Anne Everingham, Michael Cuthill, Helen Bartlett
The University of Queensland
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