Research Activities and Projects
- 2008 Research Seminar Series
- Current Research and Consultancy Projects
- Research Activities
- Publications
- 2007 Research Awards
- 2007 Research Seminar Series
Current Research and Consultancy Projects
Research and consultancy projects in the School of Social Work & Social Policy are undertaken by the leading academics in the field of social work and social policy, to government, industry and the community. Examples of our current research projects include:
- Aboriginal Cultural Awareness and Welcome to the Skilled Migrants
Program - Mt Gambier Cultural Awareness training
Funding source: Office for Community Housing
Researcher: Sophie Diamandi
- Aboriginal Family Care Advisory Model: Alternate care/ fostering/
adoption for indigenous communities
Funding source: Families SA
Researcher: Deirdre Tedmanson
- Auditing policies, practices and outcomes linking professional
training to work in rural and regional areas
Funding source: Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation (RIRDC)
Researcher: Lia Bryant
- Children and families in transition
Funding source: Centacare Family Services
Researcher: Dale Bagshaw
- Common Ground Evaluation design
Funding source: Department of Health and Common Ground Adelaide
Researcher: Nicole Moulding
- Cultural and linguistic diversity competence training
Funding Sources: Department for Families & Communities, Cetacare, Office for Community Housing and Metropolitan Domiciliary Care
Researcher: Sophie Diamandi
- Demand responsive services to desert settlements
Funding source: CRC Desert Knowledge
Researcher: Deirdre Tedmanson
- Early intervention in stopping gendered violence
Funding source: Australian Research Council Linkage Grant
Partner: Central Northern Adelaide Health Service
Researcher: Margaret Peters
- Elder Friendly Communities: State Plan for the Prevention of
Abuse of Older South Australians
Funding source: Office for the Ageing
Researcher: Dianne Gursansky
- Exploring new opportunities for local government
Funding source: Australian Research Council Linkage Grant
Researcher: Edgar Carson
- Healthy Districts Projects, Tamil Nadu
Funding source: Myer Foundation
Researcher: Adrian Vicary
- Indigenous mental health, social wellbeing and community
resilience
Funding source: Australian Research Council Linkage Grant
Researchers: Bernard Guerin, Pauline Guerin, Deirdre Tedmanson
- Managing Workplace Conflict
Funding source: Australian Education Union and DFEEST
Researcher: Dale Bagshaw
- Mediation, consultancy and clinical supervision
Funding source: Centacare
Researcher: Dale Bagshaw
- Mediation for senior managers - team-building, mediation services
and coaching for senior managers in large government departments and a
City Council
Researcher: Dale Bagshaw
- Mediation Training in Fiji and Malaysia for the Asia Pacific
Mediation Forum and in Malaysia
Partners: The Industrial Court, Minister for Women, Families and Community Development, the International Islamic University Law School Malaysia and the Malaysian Regional Institute of Arbitrators.
Researcher: Dale Bagshaw
- Out of hospital strategy training
Funding source: Country Health SA
Researcher: Dianne Gursansky
- Regional framework
Funding source: Department of Premier & Cabinet
Researcher: Lia Bryant
- Social and cultural factors in indigenous enterprise management
and governance
Funding source: Australian Research Council Linkage Grant
Researchers: Deirdre Tedmanson and Bobby Banerjee
- Stopping domestic violence in urban and rural areas: evaluating
and improving the effectiveness of domestic violence perpetrator
programs
Funding source: Australian Research Council Linkage Grant
Researcher: Edgar Carson
- Testing and delivering communication strategies for child safety
on farms
Funding source: Rural Industries R&D Corporation
Researcher: Lia Bryant
For more information on any of these projects or researchers, please contact our Research Project Officer, Jill Gregory.
Research Activities
Staff in the School of Social Work & Social Policy are actively engaged in many research activities, including:
Recent Research Activities:
The Cultural Diversity Project
The Cultural Diversity Project has been operating since 2001 as a collaboration between the Department of Human Services and the School. The project is led by Sophie Diamandi and supported by a broad based Advisory Committee. The project objectives are:
- to promote and sustain service development to improve public sector responses to cross-cultural issues; and
- to build upon the knowledge and skills of cultural diversity practice within undergraduate professional education, in the higher education sector of South Australia.
Upcoming books:
- Dale Bagshaw and Elisabeth Porter - editors: Mediation in
the Asia Pacific: Transforming Conflicts and Building Peace
Likely Publisher: Routledge
- Dale Bagshaw: The Culturally Reflexive Mediator
Likely Publisher: Routledge
- Lia Bryant: Reimaging the rural - gender and intersection
in rural contexts
Publisher: Routledge
- Alan Campbell and Donna Chung - editors:
Challenging Mediation in the Asia-Pacific Region: Peacebuilding
Practices
- Sophie Diamandi and Donna Chung: Cultural
Competency
- Dianne Gursansky, Anne Yateman, Michael Fine and Gary Dowsett:
Individualization and Delivery of Welfare Services: Contestation and
Complexity
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Dianne Gursansky, Rosemary Kennedy and Peter Camilleri:
Working with Case Management
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
- Rosemary Kennedy: Duty of Care in the Human Services
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Nicole Moulding: Gender B(L)IND: Eating disorders and the
paradox of femininity in contemporary western society
Publisher: Routledge
- Harry Savelsberg and Deirdre Tedmanson:
Volunteering in Indigenous and NESB Communities
- Sarah Wendt: Domestic Violence in Rural Australia: Women's
Stories
Publisher: Federation Press
Publications
For a full list of our Publications, please go to:
2006 Publications
2007 Publications
2008 Publications
2007 Research Awards
The Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences held its first Research Awards event on Tuesday 20th November 2007 at the Adelaide Zoo. The Vice Chancellor, Professor Peter Høj; PVC: Research and Innovation, Professor Caroline McMillen; and Division PVC, Professor Michael Rowan all spoke of the achievements of the Division.
The academic and professional staff members of the School won awards in the following categories:
- Best Community Engagement - Deirdre Tedmanson
- Research Support Staff Member of the Year - Jill Gregory
- Division Research Performance Fund Recipients for Funding in 2008:
- Dr Nicole Moulding, Interweaving discourse and life history in women's accounts of eating
disorders.
- Dr Alan Campbell and Associate Professor Dale Bagshaw, Shared parental responsibility in
Australian Family Law and the impact on children.
- Dr Sarah Wendt (with Dr Brenton Prosser, Dr Michelle Tuckey, Dr Helen Masterman-Smith), The
Personal Domain: Exploring what sustains professionals through the narratives of teachers, social
workers and emergency service workers.
- Associate Professor Patrick O'Leary (on secondment to University of Bath) is a member of a
team (with Dr Simon Robb, Emeritus Professor Alison
McKinnon, Associate Professor Peter Bishop) awarded a grant for Catalogue for the exhibition,
Hope: The Utopian Imagination of young people on the margins of society.