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As a collaboration of four leading Australian universities, the Centre for Social Impact is renowned for the quality of its research. We are practice-led, informed by lived experience, driven by rigorous investigation, and embedded in organizations, communities, and social support systems.
Below, you'll discover a diverse range of purpose-driven research encompassing vital topics such as housing and homelessness, employment, systems reform, financial inclusion, social enterprise, mental health, and domestic violence. Browse our comprehensive studies to gain valuable insights and inspiration to contribute to positive social change.
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The Centre for Social Impact conducted an analysis on how Australia’s social security system supports people who are unable to work due to their experience of mental ill-health, or caring for someone with mental ill-health.
Research and resources
- Published September 2021
- Authors : Aurora Elmes, Jeremiah Brown, Gemma Carey and Batool Moussa
This research report evaluates the NSW Government’s provision of temporary accommodation to people sleeping rough in the inner city of Sydney during the initial wave of the pandemic in 2020.
Research and resources
- Published August 2021
- Authors : Christopher Hartley, Emma Barnes and Thomas Writer
This report was produced by the Centre for Social Impact UNSW, using a systematic review of the available literature to examine the use of ‘personalised’ care budget schemes and relative experiences of administrative burden within the NDIS.
Research and resources
- Published August 2021
- Authors : Gemma Carey, Eleanor Malbon and James Blackwell
The Centre for Social Impact UWA is a founding member of the Western Australian Alliance to End Homelessness, comprised of a group of individuals and organisations that have come together to end homelessness in Western Australia.
Research and resources
- Published August 2021
The Centre for Social Impact’s Amplify Insights: Education Inequity reports utilise an evidence-based systems approach to propose changes in practice and policymaking which address education inequity in the early, middle and senior years of school.
Research and resources
- Completed
- Authors : Meera Varadharajan, Pamela Buena, Kristy Muir, Tim Moore, Diana Harris, Barbara Baker, Penny Dakin, Kevin Lowe, Catherine Smith, Sally Baker, Adrian Piccoli, Jack Noone, Megan Weier and Graham Brown
Amplify Insights: Financial Wellbeing is a call for coordinated action to address the individual (micro), organisational (meso), and societal (macro)-level factors in Australia that have created and continue to create financial hardship and vulnerability, or poor financial wellbeing.
Research and resources
- Published July 2021
- Authors : Jeremiah Thomas Brown and Jack Noone
Researchers from Swinburne, University of Technology Sydney, and the University of Melbourne came together with leaders from policy and practice on 25 June 2021 to share insights about current research in Australia on social and Indigenous preferential procurement.
Research and resources
- Published June 2021
A partnership between the Centre for Social Impact UNSW and the Community Services Industry Alliance (CSIA) has examined a decade of reforms for the community services sector, scrutinising over 92 Commonwealth-level reviews from the Productivity Commission, Royal Commissions and Senate Enquiries.
Research and resources
- Published December 2020
- Authors : Gemma Carey, Megan Weier, Emma Barnes and Kristy Muir
Throughout 2020 the Centre for Social Impact produced a series of fact sheets to address specific social issue areas in the context of COVID-19.
Research and resources
- Published 2020
- Authors : Viktoria Adler, Mariana Atkins, Loretta Baldassar, Jo Barraket, Catherine Bock, Bruce Bonyhady, Jeremiah Brown, Zoe Callis, Gemma Carey, Tracy De Cotta, Helen Dickinson, Jane Farmer, Paul Flatau, Chris Hartley, Lisette Kaleveld, Anne Kavanagh, Jasmine Knox, Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Rebekah Maycock-Sayce, Jack Noone, Isabella Saunders, Ami Seivwright, Phil Usher, Meera Varadharajan, Megan Weier, Chris Wilson and Erin Wilson
The latest Australian Homelessness Monitor shows the national homelessness rate is set to surge as short-term coronavirus and housing protections phase down. It also offers an independent analysis of homelessness in Australia and investigates the changing scale and nature of the problem.
Research and resources
- Published October 2020
- Authors : Hal Pawson, Cameron Parsell, Edgar Liu, Chris Hartley and Sian Thompson
