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Income distribution and social inequalities
Inequality and education
Chair: Pooja Sawrikar, Social Policy Research Centre
Pathways to learning and social participation: the growing role of learning support programs
Michael Horn
Melbourne Citymission
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Social protection and study-work-life balance among international students: an Australian case study
Danny Ong and Gaby Ramia
Monash University
Abstract
Constructing knowledge collaboratively: the African positive pathways project
Agnes Dodds and Jane Hunt
The University of Melbourne and Mission Australia
Abstract
Citizenship and participation
Mental health/Youth sexual health
Chair: Lyn Craig, Social Policy Research Centre
Challenging the disabling nature of mental illness: the evaluation results of the Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI)
Kristy Muir, Karen Fisher, David Abello, and Ann Dadich
Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
Abstract
Living with mental illness: perceptions, attitudes and challenges
Cris Abbu and Jacqueline Nelson
Wesley Mission
Abstract
Youth 'at risk'? Young people, sexual health and social inequality
Anastasia Powell
School of Political Science, Criminology and Sociology, The University of Melbourne
Abstract
Citizenship and participation
Participation and disadvantage
Chair: Denise Thompson (Social Policy Research Centre)
Enhancing participation - new possibilities for disadvantaged Australians
Tim Marchant and Peter Howard
Mission Australia and Australian Catholic University
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Citizenship and the social fringe: the significance of marginal and alternative networks and groups
David E. Sprigg
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Participation is not a simple process
Jeanette Lawrence
The University of Melbourne
Abstract
Organisation and delivery of human services
Care practice and social diversity
Chair: Ann Dadich, Social Policy Research Centre
The African companions project: building capacity within African refugee communities to prevent alcohol and other drug-related harm
Helen Sowey and Hamed Turay
Drug and Alcohol Multicultural Education Centre
Abstract
Policy imposed practice change: a critical ethnography of child and family health nursing in NSW
Annie Dullow
University of Newcastle
Abstract
What makes a ‘good’ care worker? How care coordinators and care workers negotiate professional and personal boundaries.
Jane Mears
Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre, UWS
Abstract
Children and young people
Policies for child protection in China
Chair: Morris Saldov, Monmouth University
The role of extended families in child care and protection in China
Xiaoyuan Shang, Morris Saldov and Lang Liu
Social Policy Research Centre and Monmouth University, and China Great Encyclopaedia Press
Abstract
Care or control: an analysis of Chinese welfare provision for the street children
Fucai Cheng
Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong
Abstract
Developing community-based child protection in China
Tingyu Wang
Save the Children UK
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Families, work and care
Gender, care and equity
Chair: Megan Griffiths, Social Policy Research Centre
Families, gender and support for gender equity policies
Rebecca Warner and Brent S. Steel
Oregon State University
Abstract
The social lives of carers in Australia
Benjamin Edwards, Daryl Higgins and Norbert Zmijewski
Australian Institute of Family Studies and the Australian Government Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Abstract
"Well, you’ve cared for him too much": the current cohabitation rule as an obstacle to caring relationships
Lyndal Sleep
Griffith University
Abstract
Retirement and ageing
Ageing in community: diversity and disadvantage
Chair: Cathy Thomson, Social Policy Research Centre
‘I know I can’t do what I used to’: factors affecting uptake of community aged care services for older people and their carers.
Lucy Nelms, Victoria Johnson and Karen Teshuva
Brotherhood of St Laurence and La Trobe University
Abstract
Myth busting 'frail aged': exploring age-related vulnerability in community care clients
Pauline Marsh
Tasmanian Council of Social Service
Abstract (Paper available for download)
Disadvantage among older people: not always what it seems
Sarah Fogg and Barbara Squires
The Benevolent Society
Abstract
Labour market participation and welfare reform
Workshop on researching the impact of welfare to work reforms
Chair: Paul Henman, UQ
Understanding the impact of Welfare to Work reforms: a networking workshop
Paul Henman, Greg Marston and Rose Melville
Social Policy Unit, University of Queensland
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