Interpersonal relations
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Journal article
The sustainable housing question: on the role of interpersonal, impersonal and professional trust in low-carbon retrofit decisions by homeowners
Trust is critical for facilitating energy transitions in both general and market exchange, and most particularly in consumer engagement. This paper demonstrates the various roles that modes of trust have in the decision-making process, and how tailoring domestic low-carbon retrofit campaigns and services to different...
Conference paper
Collaboration barometer – development of a tool for measuring collaboration during design and construction
Starting with the basics on collaboration, this paper describes the development of a tool called "Collaboration Barometer", which can be used to measure the degree of collaboration between the participants in a construction project and shows how the results are processed and what benefits are...
Report
New Delhi looks (south)-east: India-New Zealand relationship evolving into Indo-Pacific strategic partnership
As India shifts its strategic orientation from being primarily a continental power to a maritime one, in a move that will help to establish its credentials as a great power in the Indo-Pacific region, New Zealand is keen to deepen relations with a fellow democracy...
Report
Revisiting the relationship between targeting and program performance
An important public policy question is whether improved targeting of public spending will necessarily result in more or more cost-effective poverty reduction. In an important and influential study, Ravallion (2009) shows that targeting measures perform poorly as indicators of the poverty impact and cost effectiveness...
Report
The relationship between transport and disadvantage in Australia
This resource sheet provides information about how transport and disadvantage intersect and why some groups are especially vulnerable to transport disadvantage. Transport difficulties are consistently identified as a factor that restricts Australian families' capacity to access services and participate in activies (Carbone, Fraser, Ramburuth, &...
Evaluation
Growing and Developing Healthy Relationships (GDHR) impact evaluation: final report
An independent Impact Evaluation of the Growing and Developing Healthy Relationships (GDHR) website (www.gdhr.wa.gov.au) was undertaken by John Scougall Consulting Services in 2016 with the support of an expert cross-agency reference group. The impact evaluation had two objectives: to assess how well the GDHR online...
Website
Growing and developing healthy relationships
Growing and Developing Health Relationships (GDHR) is a long-standing project funded by the Western Australian Department of Health designed to support and assist Western Australian (WA) teachers, school nurses and schools to provide comprehensive relationships and sexual health education.
Audio interview
Sex after 60: what do we need to know?
Even after a lifetime of experience, there are still questions that need to be asked about the sexual health and practices of older people. Dr Bianca Fileborn is asking those questions. She is an instigator of a first-of-its-kind study called Sex, Age and Me: A...
Journal article
The initiation and progression of late-life romantic relationships
This research explores the initiation and progression of new late-life romantic relationships among older Australians (60 years plus). Our research found that older adult romantic relationships were meaningful, important and sexually intimate. However, few led to cohabitation or marriage, with these older adults preferring to...
Report
Relationship education and counselling: recent research findings
This paper reviews the research on relationship education and relationship counselling. The paper investigates the effectiveness of these strategies in working with couples who are at varying stages of their relationship - from highly satisfied at the beginning of their relationship, to highly distressed and...