Social services
Aboriginal people with mental and cognitive disabilities in the criminal justice system
This project addresses the high over-representations of Indigenous persons with mental health and cognitive disabilities in Australian criminal justice systems.
Community sanctions in Australian criminal justice
Australia’s prison population is booming.
Indigenous peoples’ experiences of cyberbullying: An assemblage approach
A recent nationally representative survey by the Australia Institute (2019) found that 39% of Australians have experienced some form of cyber-hatred and violence, and that it has cost the Australia
Cultural responsiveness: measuring and evaluating social work practice
This project aims to develop tools for use by social workers that measure and evaluate culturally responsive practices with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Aboriginal child restoration from out-of-home care: pathways for success
The soaring rates of Indigenous children living in out-of-home care requires an urgent response.
Remote Aboriginal families and carers of children with disabilities
The project intends to explore the challenges that Aboriginal families who have children with disabilities experience when living in remote communities.
Evaluation of innovative models of interagency partnerships, collaboration, coordination and/or integrated responses to family and/or sexual violence against women in Australian Indigenous communities
Over the past decade, there have been an increasing number of Indigenous-specific responses to violence against women, including interagency collaborations, integrated responses and a range of inno