The Social & Global Studies Centre partners with leading industry organisations to deliver exceptional research and drive transformation in policy and practice.
International Policing and Civilian Protection in UN Peace Operations
Led by Dr Charles T. Hunt, this ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award project aims to evaluate the contribution of police to the implementation of protection of civilians mandates in United Nations peace operations.
The broad goal of the project is to identify ways of improving the protection of civilians into the future as police peacekeepers are deployed in large numbers to protect hundreds of thousands of civilians in increasingly complex conflict situations.
Unison Housing
The Unison Housing Research Lab is a unique education and research collaboration between RMIT University and Unison Housing, Victoria’s largest social housing provider. The Lab was established in 2017 and is funded for five years to undertake an innovative research and education program informed by the experiences of service users and providers.
ANROWS
SGSC researchers have led and contributed to a number of ANROWS projects including 'Attitudes towards violence against women and gender equality among people in NSW', investigating the findings of the 2017 National Community Attitudes Survey (NCAS), and 'Preventing gender-based violence in inpatient mental health units'.
Findings from these research collaborations are playing a crucial role in shaping Australia's laws and policies to end violence against women and their children.
Australian Red Cross
The Social & Global Studies Centre collaborates with the Australian Red Cross to explore future challenges facing the humanitarian sector in a complex and unpredictable global world.
This collaboration is an important step towards building research and engagement capacity in the humanitarian sector to address matters such as reflexive and culturally sensitive approaches to interventions, and the nature of human vulnerabilities in humanitarian crises.
