The Children’s Ground project aims to develop a place-based approach to support children and their families in highly disadvantaged communities. The project approach is informed by research and evidence, recognising the multiple and multi-level influences on children’s development and the need to support the role of communities in improving outcomes for children.

We should be careful about trying to impose a single identity on Islamic communities in this country, argues Liza Hopkins.

This conference paper examines the use of communications and media technologies to establish, assert and define social groups and notions of social identity, using a research project with Melbourne's Turkish community as a case study.

Denise Meredyth, Julian Thomas, Scott Ewing and Liza Hopkins summarise research on the social effects of computer network based in Atherton Gardens, a high rise public housing estate in Fitzroy, Melbourne. The aim of the project was to increase access to information and communication technologies for low income people, to contribute to neighbourhood renewal and...

This paper considers the trend towards governments working in partnership with non-government agencies and the focus on strengthening communities to tackle their own problems is emerging alongside recent policy moves towards developing social capital as a means for enabling communities to function more efficiently and effectively.