Building better: neighbourhoods to benefit children with disability
This project aims to identify which neighbourhood features support wellbeing for children with disability. The project expects to advance innovation by combining Australian disability policy, children's lived experience of disability, and high-quality child development and built environment data.
Centre of Research Excellence in Achieving Health Equity for All People with Disabilities (AHEAD)
AHEAD envisions a world where disability-inclusive research and data analytics, spark sustainable, evidence-based solutions
Evaluation of Jesuit Social Services’ Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect Centre
This project focuses on evaluating two parts of the new Centre’s approach to supporting and working with families and carers of people who experience mental distress in the western suburbs of Melbourne.
Interventions for better life-time mental health outcomes for young Australians with disability
Young Australians with disability face greater difficulty establishing themselves socially and economically as the transition to adulthood than their non-disabled peers, underpinning life-long mental health disadvantage and significant societal costs.
On Our Own Terms – Developing lived experience advocacy and leadership for social sector systems change
‘On our own terms’ is an opportunity to hold space for conversations about what is being experienced in the landscape of lived experience advocacy and leadership across Australia.
Re-imagining environments for connection and engagement (RECETAS): testing actions for social prescribing in natural spaces
RECETAS is grounded in participatory principles and explores loneliness through a transdisciplinary lens, integrating social, behavioural, health, and natural sciences. It will use randomised controlled trials (RCT) and other epidemiological, anthropological, and health-economic methods to examine socially and culturally innovative nature-based social prescribing (NBSP).
Scoping public outputs of drug checking services
How do drug checking services share their findings with the public? This project addresses this question through an international scoping review and local Victorian community consultation.
Social connections in neighbourhood houses
This project employs three community researchers across three neighbourhood houses. The research team works with them to interview 45 neighbourhood house participants and to organise a series of co–design workshops to research the role neighbourhood houses can play in loneliness prevention and mitigation.
The Survivor Hub Evaluation
The project evaluates the impact of the Survivor Hub, which is a survivor-led, not-for-profit organisation operating in NSW and Victoria that creates safe and supportive spaces for survivors of sexual assault.