Research Leader

Name of project

Description of Project

Duration

Funding/Partners

Kathy Arthurson

ARC Research Network Chief Investigator

Research in Spatially Integrated Social Sciences

 2004-2009

ARC
Partner:
, the University of Queensland

Kathy Arthurson

Moving out or moving up?

Models of good practice in neighbourhood regeneration policies to improve the health and well being of relocated social housing tenants.           

2009-2011

2008 ARC Linkage Project
VicHealth - Industry Partner Grant

Kathy Arthurson

Social Capital & Public Policy:

How Social Capital can Inform Public Policy Interventions to Improve Health & Reduce Inequities

2004-08

ARC Linkage

Kathy Arthurson

Professor Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster University       

Sustainable Energy Consumption, Technology, Households and Environment -

2008-2009

Swinburne Visiting Professor Award Scheme

Kathy Arthurson

An international forum for collaboration, exchange & comparison    

Social mix & neighbourhood regeneration: Connecting global policy perspectives to local experiences       

2008-2009

Swinburne Researcher Development Scheme

Terry Burke

Tertiary Student Housing

The problems of meeting international student housing demand

2008-2009

Swinburne internal grant

Terry Burke with Maryanne Wulff (Monash University)

Public Housing Submarkets

Examines whether the concept of housing submarkets has relevance for social housing

2007-2009

AHURI

Kath Hulse

Family homelessness

Qualitative research which investigates the ways in which women with children experience homelessness, including implications for family support, social networks and interaction with a range of institutions.

2007-09

Hamer Lecture Series (Swinburne)

Kath Hulse with Keith Jacobs University of Tasmania) &
& Kathy Arthurson

Housing, Public Policy and Social Inclusion

The aim of the project is to improve understanding of the ways in which housing processes can affect economic and social disadvantage and whether, and to what extent, housing and related policies and programs can be effective in addressing such disadvantage.

2009-10

AHURI

Kath Hulse, Terry Burke

The advantages and disadvantages of home ownership for low-moderate income households

The project investigates whether lower income households realise the projected benefits of home ownership compared to those on higher incomes. If focuses on three issues: on-going costs, capacity to build wealth, and non-financial benefits of ownership.

2008-2009

AHURI

Scott Ewing & Meg Carter

Investigating reasons for non-response to ABS Census Population & Dwellings

This project is a qualitative study of the reasons for census non-response amongst relatively affluent, well-educated inner city residents.

2009-10

ARC Linkage (via Andy Flitman Swinbunre Research)

Kath Hulse and Lise Saugeres

Public Housing and Employment: Challenges and Strategies

The aim of the project is to improve our understanding of why, and how, public housing tenants, in particular sole parents and women with unemployed partners, are able to (re-)enter paid work despite the many disincentives and barriers identified in previous research

2008-2010

AHURI

Kath Hulse and David Mackenzie

Families on the Edge: Lived Experiences of Citizenship of Homeless Families

The project examines lived experiences of citizenship of families who have experienced homelessness using a longitudinal, qualitative research design

2008-2011

ARC Linkage

Kath Hulse (with Vivienne Milligan University of New South Wales)

Secure Occupancy in Rental Housing: A Comparative Analysis

The overall aim of the project is to review and assess international models for providing periods of secure occupancy for households who rent their housing, in particular lower-income and vulnerable households, and to evaluate whether, and to what extent, these can be applied in the Australian context to longer-term rental housing.

2009-2010

AHURI

Ian McShane

The new commons: innovation and social production in the public realm

This project explores emerging debates and policy around the ownership, management and use of public assets, especially infrastructure assets such as public land and buildings. Its particular focus is on commons or community-based initiatives, and their facilitation through new communication technologies.

2008-2010

Centre for Creative Industries

Denise Meredyth, Helen McKernan, Richard Evans, Michael Gilding

‘Exploring the experience of security in the Australian Vietnamese community’

This Linkage with Victoria Police explores both police and Vietnamese community understandings of security, in the context of community policing and efforts to build trust and understand social networks

June 2007-June 2011

ARC Linkage

Denise Meredyth, Melissa Bull, Richard Evans

‘Exploring the experience of security in multiethnic communities undergoing rapid change: a Flemington case study’

This seed-funded project, in collaboration with Grififth University, explores relations between police, service providers and Horn of Africa migrant communities in Flemington

2009

Victoria Police

Denise Meredyth and Melissa Bull

Policing, network governance and Australian-African communities in Victoria

This project, in development with Victoria Police, will explore ways in which network governance approaches do or could link policing to Australian-African refugee communities, by establishing more effective links with social service providers, community agencies and faith-based groups. Planned research includes Dandenong, Flemington, Reservoir, Castlemaine, Shepparton and Warrnambool.

2009-2013

ARC Linkage (in development)

Denise Meredyth (working with project leaders  from Psychology -- Mike Kyrios, Sue Moore, Glenn Bates

Gambling access and self-regulation

This project, near completion, was a 2 year study of gambling access and of how problem gamblers and social gamblers use seld-regulation. A series of articles will be produced

2008-9

Vict Dept of Justice

Denise Meredyth, Paula Geldens, Maria Klona

The New Thrift

This project, just starting, will explore forms of recycling, thrift and domestic economy being reinvented and invented in the wake of the financial crisis. Scope will include online resources such as eBay and free cycle

2009

Potentially, ARC

Peter Newton

Hybrid Buildings

This study undertakes an eco-efficiency analysis of alternative configurations of a carbon neutral hybrid building, where variations in performance are explored across: different types of residential structure (detached, medium density, high-rise), different energy ratings of the shell, the number and mix of domestic appliances in use and the type of distributed generation technology employed. The most prospective intervention points for delivering carbon neutral residential development are identified.

2008-2009

DEWAH,DPCD,BCV,
SV,ARUP

Peter Newton Terry Burke

Consuming the Urban Environment.
Determinants of Urban Resource Consumption in Australian Cities

The research is expected to identify and apportion, for the first time, the strength of each major cluster of influences - individual discretionary, household context, dwelling context and spatial context – to urban resource consumption. This will provide an evidence-based platform for a range of government, industry and community initiatives focused on winding back currently unsustainable levels of urban resource consumption in the 21st century.

2008-2010

ARC Discovery

Richard Evans and Helen McKernan

Vietnamese Australians and Police

The project aims to increase understanding and co-operation between Vietnamese Australians and Victoria Police. The project aims are to increase knowledge of:

• Effective community policing with Vietnamese Australians and other ethnic minorities
• Risk, safety and security issues for Vietnamese Australians
• How to increase trust between Vietnamese Australians and Victoria Police
• Comparisons between Victoria Police policy and practice with international models of best practice in community policing with ethnic minorities

2008-11

ARC Linkage