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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 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
The Centre for Social Impact UWA's 'Increasing and Improving Community Mental Health Supports in Western Australia' presents six models of innovative community mental health support that considers the needs of priority cohorts who are less likely to access support.
Research and resources
- Published November 2020
- Authors : Lisette Kaleveld, Catherine Bock and Ami Seivwright
In partnership with the Centre for Social Impact, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, Social Traders and the Foundation for Young Australians, this research investigates how social enterprises affect the social determinants of health (SDOH) equities for young people experiencing disadvantage.
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- Published October 2020
- Authors : Jo Barraket, Perri Campbell, Batool Moussa, Roksolana Suchowerska, Jane Farmer, Gemma Carey, Andrew Joyce, Chris Mason and Joanne McNeill
Researchers from the Centre for Social Impact UWA and Swinburne University of Technology have researched the impact and economic evaluations of Sacred Heart Mission's Journey to Social Inclusion (J2SI) program.
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- Published August 2020
- Authors : Paul Flatau, Ami Seivwright, Zoe Callis, Monica Thielking, Jessica Mackelprang, Kathryn Taylor, Louise La Sala, Bronte McLeod and Jude Spiers