The Disability Policy and Research Working Group has commissioned the University of NSW Consortium (Social Policy Research Centre, Disability Studies and Research Institute and City Futures) to research the effectiveness of supported living in relation to shared accommodation to improve service delivery to people with disabilities. The research has two parts: improving access to housing...

In June 2006, the Australian Government Office for Women in the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA) engaged the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) at the University of New South Wales to research how culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women participate in sport and recreation, and the factors that may limit their...

The evaluation by Kristy Muir and others at SPRC finds that HASI is mediating some of the effects of mental illness for many clients. This is the third of four reports on the fieldwork for the evaluation of the Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative Stage One (HASI). HASI is a partnership between NSW Health, NSW...

This paper examines how culturally and linguistically diverse women participate in sport and recreation, and the factors that may limit their full involvement in this area of Australian social and cultural life. This has been undertaken to inform the development of policies and programs to effectively support the inclusion of these women in sport and...

All of the papers from this seminar, held in mid-2006, are now available online. Speakers were Suzanne Bianchi, Lyn Craig, Leonie Bloomfeild, Julie Smith and Mark Ellwood, Trish Hill, Janeen Baxter and Duncan Ironmonger.