Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0450010

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0450010

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Genetic Identity Testing and the Family: the articulation between biotechnology and family relationships, politics and policy. Genetic identity testing cuts to the very nature of the family itself. For the first time in human history, it is possible to identify paternity - and misattributed paternity - with reasonable certainty. Parentage testing has become a vehicle for the fathers? rights movement, and is influencing the management of child support policy. Governments are currently developing broad policy frameworks on this issue. Yet there is almost no social research on parentage testing. This study will provide scope for Australian leadership in an area of study that will become progressively more important with the rapid development of DNA chip technology.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2004

End Date: 12-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $175,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Sociology | Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation And Social Impact Assessment | Social Change | Social Policy And Planning

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Families | Gender | Health policy evaluation |

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