Dr Meg Carter

BA (University of Melbourne), BSocSci (Hons) (Swinburne), PhD (Swinburne)

Meg joined ISR in 2006 as a Research Fellow working on an ARC-funded project entitled 'Out of the Institution: Evaluating a Model of Housing and Support'. This project compares the experiences of people who were discharged from psychiatric institutions in Victoria in the 1990's with support provided by NEAMI and Supported Housing Limited, with those of people currently being discharged from Glenside Hospital in Adelaide with support under the 'Returning Home' program. The research will consider the views of people living with mental illness, their carers or family members, and the workers who support them, including those from disability support agencies and from clinical outreach teams. It will also consider the views of staff working at Glenside.

Before completing a PhD in Sociology Meg worked with Federal Government agencies for 20 years. She has worked with the (then) Department of Family and Community Services and its predecessors in administration and management roles with programs including Housing, SAAP, Emergency Relief, Child Care, and Aged Care, and as a Regional Manager with the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service; and with the (then) Department of Employment, Education and Training with administration of funding for non-government schools, student allowances, and as Equal Employment Opportunity Co-ordinator. Meg has been a member of Technical Advisory Committees for research projects conducted by agencies including Ecumenical Housing, Hanover Welfare Services, and the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, and for program evaluations conducted for the Victorian Department of Human Services.

Publications in the Swinburne Research Bank

Office: EW102
Telephone: +61 3 9214 4420
Email: mcarter@groupwise.swin.edu.au