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Current research in the school
Academic Research
Jennifer Cartmel Sharing spaces: Outside school hours care and Queensland schools
Lesley Chenoweth (a) Recruitment and retention of rural practitioners ( ARC Linkage grant with the Department of Child Safety); (b) Social work and welfare reform (Study of social workers' responses to welfare reform and impacts on practice); (c) Long-term outcomes after deinstitutionalisation (Follow-up study of outcomes of residents with intellectual disability who moved from Queensland institutions from 1996 to 1998)
Jayne Clapton Disability and ethics; Addressing the housing and support needs of people with impaired capacity who are chronically homeless
Jane Fowler Mentoring in education and work settings; impact of a long-term strike on workers and their families
Ann Ingamells Evaluation of Communities for children community development project
Stephen Larmar Early intervention and prevention for children at risk of conduct problems
Donna McAuliffe
Ethical conduct and professional practice standards; dual relationships and statutory authority in rural and remote communities; social work education and the impact of employment on study.
Kym MacFarlane Parent involvement in schooling
Jennifer Osmond Permanency Planning decision making; Critical thinking in social work education; Cross-cultural teaching tool
Christine Randall Better practice in occupational rehabilitation; disability management, rehabilitation counselling competencies, employment opportunities for people with mental illness
Clare Tilbury Kinship care and the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander carers in the child protection system; performance measurement in child welfare, permanency planning, and school to work transition for young people in care
Sandra Woodbridge

Grandparent relationships and grandchildren with disability; Retirement housing choices

                                           
Higher Degree Research students
Student
Topic
Contact
Degree
Rosslyn Aitchison Exploring child protection practice with Aboriginal families in a rural setting
s577692@griffithuni.edu.au PhD
Aishah
Aziz
Attachment & Resiliency: A study of resilience among children with adverse attachment patterns s2822450@griffith.edu.au
PhD

Stephanie Azri

Psychosocial support and prenatal diagnosis: A study on the effect of psychosocial support on anxiety, guilt and satisfaction with choice after a prenatal diagnosis
s1703722@griffith.edu.au
MPhil
Fay Beatty
Making Friends, Breaking Friends: Towards full inclusion of the marginalised group of people with an intellectual disability into communities in Queensland
f.beatty@griffith.edu.au
PhD
Yael Berger-Gudes
Decision making amongst CTP claimants: self representation, risk appraisal and choice in situations of uncertainty

s2734902@griffithuni.edu.au
PhD
Denise Bolland
Homelessness transition: defining key factors for a successful transition from enforced homelessness to a hopeful future
s2598835@griffithuni.edu.au
PhD

Robert Bowers


The impact of community-based rehabilitation interventions in four districts in North-West Bangladesh

 

s2808960@griffithuni.edu.au

 

PhD

Helen Bristed
Transport as a social determinant of health: A model to combat transport disadvantage


 h.bristed@griffith.edu.au


PhD

 

Marilyn Casley
Thinking for now and beyond: Gathering children's wisdom about issues that matter to them and their community
m.casley@griffith.edu.au
MPhil
Natalie Clements
Missing persons in Australia: A review of the policy and legislative context

 

n.clements@griffith.edu.au

 


MPhil

Donna Confetti
Connecting separated siblings in foster care
s723556@griffithuni.edu.au
MPhil
Meegan Crawford
Young people in care: The influence of carers and caseworkers on the transition from school to further education and work
m.crawford@griffith.edu.au
PhD
Michelle Daly
The experience of leadership: Perspectives of directors of social work in Australian hospitals
s2772993@griffithuni.edu.au
PhD
Letitia Del Fabbro
Knowledge translation in health promotion
l.delfabbro@griffith.edu.au PhD
Jennifer Flynn
Enabling the delivery of evidence-based family support to vulnerable families
s2128203@griffithuni.edu.au
MPhil
Dayle Foreman
Australian social workers' understanding and meaning of their international practice
s2607335@griffithuni.edu.au
PhD
Nicolette Frey
Precarious employment on career development

 

n.frey@griffith.edu.au


PhD

Lyndal Greenslade
Social work activism resistance from the frontier

l.greenslade@griffith.edu.au
PhD
Gregory Hall
A margin of freedom in Centrelink: A new approach to social work engagement with marginalised people
s2756740@griffithuni.edu.au
PhD
Michelle Harris
Essential elements in quality service provision to vulnerable populations: rhetoric into practice for direct workers


 michelle.harris@griffith.edu.au


PhD

Errol Ingram
An alternative service delivery model for children who are congenitally blind to develop lifeskills
s2790857@griffithuni.edu.au
PhD
Lise-Lotte Johns
Social work in palliative care
s2155126@griffithuni.edu.au
PhD
Katherine Jones
Family belief systems after SCI: Investigating the applicability of a family resilience framework


 s2864640@griffithuni.edu.au


PhD

Reeny Jurczyszyn
Learn from those who learnt: Care leavers experiences of higher and further education
s2610424@griffithuni.edu.au
PhD
Jesse Kolbe
Determining knowledge-guided practice for residential staff within child protection

 

s2819759@griffithuni.edu.au

 


MPhil

Rachael Krinks
Witness selection, consumer voices and juror deliberations in citizens' juries


 r.krinks@griffith.edu.au


PhD

Ali Lakhani
Gender roles & popular music

s2854780@griffithuni.edu.au

PhD
Cherie Lamb
Exploring the merits of family support services in mitigating the effects of poverty & disadvantage


 s241658@griffithuni.edu.au


PhD

Peter McAloney
The evaluation of World Vision Australia's Kids Hope mentoring program as an early intervention and prevention framework for children and families at risk
s2730848@griffithuni.edu.au
MPhil

Michelle
McIntyre

Understanding families after traumatic brain injury

 michelle.mcintyre@griffith.edu.au

PhD

Richard
McLaren

To study the use of therapeutic photography on children with Asperger's Syndrome


 s61364@griffithuni.edu.au


MPhil

Sara McMillan
How patients self-manage their chronic illness (s) and can pharmacists better assist them

 

s.mcmillan@griffith.edu.au


PhD

Amary Mey
The future role of community pharmacy in providing primary health care to people with mental illness


 a.mey@griffith.edu.au


PhD

Debbie Mitchell-Macaulay
Explore workforce & workplace dynamics of multicultural mental health teams versus mainstream workforce and workplace dynamics

 

s2686698@griffith.edu.au

PhD
Riyad Rahimullah
 The development of religious belief in Muslim children & adolescents in Australia

r.rahimullah@griffith.edu.au
PhD
Christine Randall
Management of workplace stress injury: Developing an effective occupational rehabilitation system conducive to a large organisational environment in Australia (SUBMITTED)
c.randall@griffith.edu.au
PhD
Jane Remington-Gurney
Motivations and incentives to meet the augmentative communication needs of those who cannot speak


 s2854756@griffithuni.edu.au


PhD

Bree Ryan
Exploring how men and women experience increased risk for familial bowel cancer syndrome


 s2854756@griffithuni.edu.au


PhD

Carole Rushton
The design and co-construction of a community-based health coalition(SUBMITTED

c.rushton@griffith.edu.au
PhD
Deborah Sauvage
Complaints about counselling, psychotherapy and case work In Australia: Individual experiences and systemic issues in a semi-regulated industry
s2650124@griffithuni.edu.au
PhD
Shane Warren
Homelessness in regional boom towns: Mackay and other communities of the Bowen Basin


 s2854932@griffithuni.edu.au


PhD

Courtney Wright
To develop and test customer-centred housing solutions for young people with complex support needs
courtney.wright@griffith.edu.au
PhD
Amy Young
 How would an Islamic child protection system work in the Islamic Malay Monarchy of Brunei Darussal


 s2866610@griffithuni.edu.au


PhD



Journal

  • Journal of Social Inclusion

Grants

Lesley Chenoweth

  • 2008 ARC Discovery Managing tensions in professional statutory practice: Living and working in rural and remote communities Investigators: Prof L. Chenoweth, D MCAuliffe, B.O’Connor, P. Jervis Tracey and D Stehlik $135,000 2007 Qld Government Q150
  • 1000 voices: Queenslanders with disability $10,000 2007 AUDA Foundation 1000 voices project with Naomi Sunderland $20.000 2007 Funding and Support Options for People with Disabilities: An international comparative study, Office of the Public Advocate, Office of the Adult Guardian, Qld health and National Disability Services (Qld) ($30,000) 2007 ARC Linkage
  • Pathways to better practice: developing human resources in child protection services for Indigenous communities in Western Australia and Queensland. Investigators: Prof Daniela Anna Stehlik, Prof Lesley Irene Chenoweth, Dr Donna McAuliffe, Dr Clare Tilbury ARC Linkage project ($290,000) 2007 ARC Linkage
  • Determinants of successful community transition for individuals with acquired brain injury and their families Investigators: Dr Jennifer Michelle Fleming, Prof Linda Elizabeth Worrall, Dr Petrea Lee Cornwell, Dr Terry Peter Haines, Dr Tamara Ownsworth, Miss Melissa Bianca Kendall, Prof Lesley Irene Chenoweth
  • 2007 Fair funding of community services (Social Policy Research Centre UNSW, DSaRI, Lesley Chenoweth) Dept Communities Qld, DSQ $300,000
  • 2007 Outcomes of the Spinal Cord Injury Response Program (Pat Dorsett, Heidi Meunchberger, Lesley Chenoweth, Elizabeth Kendall) Disability Services Queensland $80,000
  • 2006-07 Consumer participation in planning and management of funded disability services in Queensland. $25,000 Disability Services Queensland
  • 2006 Service Needs of Residents in Private Residential Services Disability Services Queensland with SPRC University of NSW and DSaRI $100,000
  • 2006 Organisational Planning for Sustainability: A Study of disability services National Disability Services Qld $35000
  • 2005 - The future of social work: A comparative study of social workers and welfare reform in Australia and the United States. With C. McDonald (Qld) and M Gray (Newcastle). Faculty Grant for 2005 ARC Discovery in top 30% but not funded by ARC. ($12,000)
  • 2004 – Referral patterns to private accommodation services. Disability Services Queensland with SPRC University of NSW and DSaRI . ($70,000)
  • 2004 – Community Living Project: Deinstitutionalisation Follow Up Study. Japanese Government with Dr Louise Young (UQ), Prof H. Katoda, and Dr Linda Sun (Japan). ($10,000)
  • 2004 – ARC Linkage: Recruitment and retention of rural practitioners. Industry Partner: Dept of Child Safety with D McAuliffe and D Stehlik. ($100,000) 

Clare Tilbury

  • Australian Research Council – Linkage (2007-09) Prof PA Creed, Prof N Buys, Dr C Tilbury, Promoting successful further education and work transitions for young people in state care . Industry partners: Education Queensland and Department of Child Safety
  • Australian Research Council – Linkage (2008-10) Prof DA Stehlik, Prof LI Chenoweth, Dr D McAuliffe, Dr C Tilbury, Pathways to better practice: human resources in child protection services for Indigenous families in rural and remote communities , Industry partners: WA Dept for Child Safety, Qld Dept of Child Safety
  • Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University (2007-08) Cross-national study of racial disparities and Indigenous over-representation in child welfare systems
  • Australian Research Council – Discovery (2009-2010) A national assessment of Australia’s Children’s Courts , member of national team led by Prof A Borowski (Latrobe) 

Research centres

Griffith University

  • Research Centre for Clinical and Community Practice Innovation
  • Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance

Other Research centres

  • Desert Knowledge CRC
  • Alcoa Research Centre for Stronger Communities, Curtin University of Technology

Industry research partners

International

  • Federal Bureau of Investigation, USA
  • Sri Lanka
  • Gladnet and the International Disability Management Researchers Network

Government

  • Acquired Brain Injury Outreach Service
  • Centre for National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine
  • CRS Australia
  • Department of Communities
  • Disability Services Queensland
  • Education Queensland
  • Mater Children's Hospital
  • Motor Accident Insurance Commission
  • Princess Alexandra Hospital - Rehabilitation Unit
  • Q-COMP
  • Queensland Department of Child Safety
  • Queensland Department of Industrial Relations
  • Queensland Health
  • Queensland Police Service
  • Queensland Office of the Public Advocate
  • Queensland Office of the Adult Guardian
  • WorkCover Queensland
  • WorkCover, Western Australia
  • Western Australia Department for Child Protection

Community

  • Arthritis Queensland
  • Australian Association of Social Workers
  • Brain Injury Association of Queensland
  • Brisbane Southside Central Division of General Practice
  • Energise Rehabilitation
  • Indian Health Service
  • National Disability services (Queensland)
  • Queensland Council of Carers
  • Rehabilitation of brain injured children and neuromuscular disorders
  • Salvation Army – Communities for Children
  • Southport Catholic Parish
  • Stroke Support Group
  • Wesley Hospital Multi-disciplinary Pain Program
  • Wesley Mission
  • Work Directions Australia
  • World Vision
  • Youngcare

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