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0000-0003-0132-4843
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Flinders University
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Social Policy | Policy and Administration | Counselling, Welfare and Community Services | Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified | Causes and Prevention of Crime
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Nutrition | Community Service (excl. Work) not elsewhere classified | Social Structure and Health | Children's/Youth Services and Childcare | Crime Prevention | Public Sector Productivity |
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Publications
“I'd be sleeping in the park, I reckon”: Lived Experience of Using Financial Counselling Services in South Australia*
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-09-2020
‘I’m not a barcode or case file number’: understandings of perceived social support and belonging within disadvantaged adolescents and young adults
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-01-2019
Understanding the Diverse Forms of Spiritual Expression of Older People in Residential Aged Care in Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-12-2018
DOI: 10.1007/S10943-018-00742-1
Abstract: The ability of older people to express their spirituality is an important component of aged care. Spirituality is not specifically religiousness although, for some, religion offers a means for spiritual expression. This paper aimed to explore what constitutes spiritual life for residents in three residential aged care facilities in South Australia. The findings of the research demonstrated that the majority of older resident participants defined spirituality as 'connection/s'. Three unexpected results of the study became obvious during analysis, reported here as 'loss', 'adaptation' and 'they're busy'. It is offered here that these adjustments enabled participants to compensate for their losses.
Staff connectedness in hub-and-spoke community service organisations working across geographically dispersed regional, rural and remote settings
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2020
Community service sector resilience and responsiveness during the COVID-19 pandemic: The Australian experience
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-05-2021
DOI: 10.1002/AJS4.167
Abstract: The COVID‐19 pandemic is a public health, economic and social crisis that is likely to have lasting consequences, including increased rates of financial hardship, housing insecurity, mental health problems, substance abuse and domestic violence. Workers in the community service sector have continued to support some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged Australians during the pandemic, while also delivering services to new groups experiencing the economic impacts of virus suppression strategies. We surveyed community service sector workers from across Australia in three snapshots during April–May 2020 and found that perceptions of acute needs and organisational pressure points shifted even through this short period. While the sector faced significant challenges, it responded to the initial phase of the pandemic with flexibility, a strongly client‐centred approach and a re‐emphasis on collaboration between services. The community service sector's demonstrated capacity for agility and rapid adaptation suggests it is well placed to provide critical supports to those affected by crisis situations and everyday disadvantage. However, the sector's capacity to perform this role effectively depends on strong, stable government supports for all Australians in need.
Interdisciplinarity and Undergraduate Psychology Education
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.2304/PLAT.2013.12.2.159
Abstract: This work identifies the human service sector as an important and growing destination for psychology graduates. It further identifies a number of key themes which flow from that observation and which are important to configuring psychology education in a way which takes account of emerging trends. The major theme identified in the research is the importance of breadth. The theme of the importance of breadth takes two related and repeated forms. The first is that graduates need to be thinkers rather than doers. The second is that employers in the human services stress the need for broad-based thinking and analytical skills to reflect social and contextual awareness of therapeutic situations and human service programmes and interventions. Stakeholders broadly commented that graduates seeking employment in the human service sector need upskilling in terms of a contextual awareness of the ‘real world’. One idea which emerged in this research is that real-world multidisciplinarity is best underpinned by an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning.
Increasing constructive engagement and positive affect for residents with severe and very severe dementia through group-based activities
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-12-2014
DOI: 10.1111/AJAG.12127
Abstract: A group-based multisensory activity program (Sensory Day) for residents with dementia was developed, to address the challenge of providing personalised activities within tight operational constraints in residential aged care facilities. Fourteen participants with severe and very severe dementia were observed before, during and after participation in one of four Sensory Day sessions. The Menorah Park Rating Scale was used to yield four levels of engagement. The Philadelphia Geriatric Affect Rating Scale was used to identify four affect states. Dementia severity was ascertained by PAS-CIS scores mapped onto the Global Deterioration Scale. Increased levels of constructive engagement and positive affect were observed during participation in the Sensory Day sessions, relative to measures taken before the session. This novel approach to activity programming demonstrates that it is possible to provide group-based activities for residents with severe and very severe dementia which result in increased engagement and positive mood.
‘Sustainable’ Rather than ‘subsistence’ food assistance solutions to food insecurity
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 21-09-2018
Abstract: South Australian (SA) food charity recipients’ perspectives were sought on existing services and ideas for improvement of food assistance models to address food insecurity. Seven focus groups were conducted between October and November 2017 with 54 adults. Thematically analysed data revealed five themes: (1) Emotional cost and consequences of seeking food relief (2) Dissatisfaction with inaccessible services and inappropriate food (3) Returning the favour—a desire for reciprocity (4) Desiring help beyond food and, (5) “It’s a social thing”, the desire for social interaction and connection. Findings revealed that some aspects of the SA food assistance services were disempowering for recipients. Recipients desired more empowering forms of food assistance that humanise their experience and shift the locus of control and place power back into their hands. Some traditional models, such as provision of supermarket vouchers, empower in iduals by fostering autonomy and enabling food choice in socially acceptable ways. Improvement in the quality of existing food assistance models, should focus on recipient informed models which re-dress existing power relations. Services which are more strongly aligned with typical features of social enterprise models were generally favoured over traditional models. Services which are recipient-centred, strive to empower recipients and provide opportunities for active involvement, social connection and broader support were preferred.
An Evaluation of AnglicareSA’s role as Facilitating Partner of the Playford Communities for Children initiative
Publisher: University of South Australia
Date: 2020
Childhood adversity, sense of belonging and psychosocial outcomes in emerging adulthood: A test of mediated pathways
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2016
Bloodlust: A postcolonial sociology of childbirth
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-03-2012
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Publisher: The Australian Alliance for Social Enterprise
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.25954/T4CH-EE85
Evaluation of the Social Supermarket model across three new sites.
Publisher: Centre for Social Impact Flinders, College of Business Government and Law, Flinders University
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.25957/DFCD-AB74
Loss and grief: The experience of transition to residential aged care
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2020
DOI: 10.1002/AJS4.105
For cutting: An introduction to Foucault, 25 years on
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2010
Staff perceived challenges and facilitators in supporting resident self-determination in ethno-specific and mainstream nursing homes
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-07-2023
DOI: 10.1111/JOCN.16440
Abstract: To explore and compare staff perceived challenges and facilitators in supporting resident self‐determination in ethno‐specific and mainstream nursing homes. Staff and residents in ethno‐specific and mainstream nursing homes in most developed countries have shown increased cultural and linguistic ersity. This socio‐demographic change poses significant challenges for staff to support resident self‐determination of their own care. In‐depth understanding of those challenges in the two types of nursing homes is much needed to inform practice in nurse‐led nursing home care settings. A qualitative description approach with thematic analysis was used in the study. Data were collected through five focus groups with 29 various direct care workers from two ethno‐specific nursing homes and a mainstream nursing home in Australia between March–September 2020. The study report followed the COREQ checklist. Four themes were identified from focus group data. First, participants perceived communication challenges in identifying residents' preferences, especially in ethno‐specific nursing homes. Second, team efforts that included residents and their family members were highly valued as a way to meet residents' preferences. Third, participants described various levels of staff engagement in residents' care planning. In addition, staff in ethno‐specific nursing homes possessed richer resources to maintain meaningful relationships for residents compared with their counterparts in the mainstream nursing home. Staff in ethno‐specific nursing homes experience more challenges in supporting resident self‐determination but have richer resources to develop culturally safe and culturally competent care compared with their counterparts in the mainstream nursing home. Findings provide new insights into challenges and practical solutions in supporting residents to self‐determine their own care in cross‐cultural aged care. This study was co‐designed with three aged care organisations who funded the study. Staff employed by these organisations participated in the study.
Resisting foucault: The necessity of appropriation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2010
Apprenticeships in homelessness: a quantitative study
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2015
Living beyond Aboriginal suicide: Developing a culturally appropriate and accessible suicide postvention service for Aboriginal communities in South Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
(Re)Building Home and Community in the Social Housing Sector: Lessons from a South Australian Approach
Publisher: Cogitatio
Date: 31-07-2020
Abstract: Australia’s social housing sector is under great pressure. Actions to improve social housing sector capacity and responsiveness have occupied the minds and endeavours of many policy makers, practitioners and scholars for some time now. This article focusses on one approach to challenges within the sector recently adopted in a socio-economically disadvantaged area within Adelaide, South Australia: transfer of housing stock from the public to the community housing sector for capacity and community building purposes (the Better Places, Stronger Communities Public Housing Transfer Program). The discussion draws on evaluative research about this northern Adelaide program, which has a deliberate theoretical and practical foundation in community development and place-making as a means for promoting and strengthening social inclusion, complementing its tenancy management and asset growth focuses. Tenants and other stakeholders report valued outcomes from the program’s community development activities—the focus of this article—which have included the coproduction of new and necessary social and physical infrastructures to support community participation and engagement among (vulnerable) tenants and residents, confidence in the social landlord and greater feelings of safety and inclusion among tenants, underpinning an improving sense of home, community and place. Consideration of program outcomes and lessons reminds us of the importance of the ‘social’ in social housing and social landlords. The program provides a model for how social landlords can work with tenants and others to (re)build home and community in places impacted by structural disadvantage, dysfunction, or change. The article adds to the literature on the role of housing, in this case community housing, as a vehicle for place-making and promoting community development and social inclusion.
Positive Interactive Engagement (PIE): A pilot qualitative case study evaluation of a person-centred dementia care programme based on Montessori principles
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-08-2018
Abstract: Altered behaviour associated with dementia can present a number of challenges in the provision of care within both community and residential aged care settings. This paper presents a qualitative case study investigation of the implementation of the Positive Interactive Engagement programme within a residential aged care setting. The Positive Interactive Engagement programme incorporates non-pharmacological sensory techniques that have been informed by a person-centred, Montessori approach. Face-to-face semi-structured interviews with workers at a residential aged care facility in South Australia yielded seven case studies. Data were thematically analysed both within and between cases. Our data indicate the programme demonstrates underlying Montessori principles and supports participant behaviour change, with a noted reduction in ‘disruptive’ behaviours and increased social connection amongst participants. Programme staff report increased job satisfaction. The Positive Interactive Engagement programme offers a model that demonstrates encouraging outcomes, and further research would be useful in ascertaining whether these outcomes translate to quantifiable improvements in the quality of life for people with dementia in a residential aged care setting.
A pilot study of social inclusion and quality of life for parents of children with autism spectrum disorder
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-05-2018
Carlow place: developing the evidence base on supported accommodation for young people
Publisher: The Australian Alliance for Social Enterprise
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.25954/F8XF-Y956
The foster care and family reunification nexus: Care as a mechanism for bringing families back together
Publisher: University of South Australia
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.25954/2R9A-HW29
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Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP190101100
Start Date: 05-2021
End Date: 06-2024
Amount: $244,381.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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Start Date: 06-2021
End Date: 06-2025
Amount: $315,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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