Projects

 

LEARNING, PLACE AND IDENTITY

The "Learning, Place and Identity: an investigation into the affordances of 'a pedagogy of place' amongst indigenous Australian students" project, led by Ruth Deakin Crick (University of Bristol, UK) represents important cutting-edge research in education. In 2008, RISIW co-ordinated a major symposium in the area of values, quality of teaching and life long learning.

 

MAKING MODERN INSTITUTIONS WORK (MMIW)

Making Modern Institutions Work (MMIW) is a large scale, long term research program being established by the Research Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing (RISIW) with the purpose of examining ways and means of improving the effectiveness of government and non-government institutions in the delivery of policies and programs around social inclusion and justice. 

 

STRATEGIES OF SOCIAL INCLUSION WITH MUSLIM COMMUNITIES

The Institute will focus core research activity on examining the huge variety of shades of Muslim culture and community and concentrate on a number of important issues that concern the average Australian. Whilst the media spotlight on Muslim has a tendency to cast Islam and Muslim culture as a homogenous group our efforts will underline the diversity and range of beliefs, life styles and persuasions. The Institute is currently researching a number of projects in this area including a Department of Immigration and Citizenship study on 'Job Readiness of Muslim Jobseekers and the Relative Effectiveness of Employment Support Services in Australia'

 

THE RISIW VALUES EDUCATION PROJECT

The Values Education project represents both a profoundly conceptual re-positioning on the part of the service professions, as well as highly applied changes in their practice. The work of RISIW is directed especially at the service professions, with special though not exclusive attention to social work and teaching and the intersections and mutually beneficial conversations between them.

 

TiSSA.AP

The international Study of Society Academy (Asia-Pacific) (TiSSA.AP) is a sister organisation to the European 'international Social Work and Society Academy' (TiSSA). It is an interdisciplinary forum for innovative discussion on topical social issues, and seeks to foster communication between academics, postgraduate students, and professionals across nations and institutions.

 

VALUES PERSPECTIVES IN SOCIAL WORK

Members of the Institute are engaged in an exciting new international edited book collection on Values Perspectives in Social Work. This has been commissioned by Palgrave and will be published in 2009.