While there is a substantial body of Australian and international research on pathways into homelessness, less attention has been directed to understanding young people’s pathways out of homelessness. This study explores ...

This thesis provides an account of the role that the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) plays in helping to drive corporate social responsibility (CSR) related practices in the Australian banking sector. Employing a ...

Schools are institutions for knowledge dissemination but at the same time also sites of power. They inculcate students into specific ideological and emotional norms and social relations. Far from being politically neutral ...

This thesis explores acts of collective caring within refugee diaspora communities in Australia for forcibly displaced people in other parts of the world. This thesis asks: (1) what do refugee diaspora organisations (RDOs) ...

Any expression of medical pluralism will reflect the organisation and hierarchisation of its traditions of knowledge. My thesis attends to moments in which diverse understandings of mental affliction are negotiated, and ...

Departing from traditional research that measures the impact of closed-circuit television cameras (CCTV) as a crime prevention tool, this thesis interrogates its lesser-known effects in the city. While international evidence ...

In the past fifty years there has been a boom in small-scale wine production on the periphery of large cities in temperate Australia. Geelong, in the southeast of Australia, is no exception. Two things are interesting about ...

Annual measures of democracy are one of the most important tools used by scholars in understanding democratic quality in a cross-national manner. This thesis argues that there are limitations with existing measures of ...

This study is concerned with the question of how youth policy and programs can better support and care for young people who face disadvantage. It poses the question of whether there is a disjunction between disadvantaged ...

In this thesis, I position Chinese health and medicine within the ongoing conceptualisation and practices of Chinese capitalism and socialism. Health care and medicine are important components of social welfare and, ...