Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP1094139

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP1094139

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Can there be good policy? Tracing the paths between policy intent, evidence and practical benefit in regional and remote Australia. By tracking major health, housing and education reforms currently underway across regional and remote Australia, this research generates fresh perspectives on an urgent contemporary debate in Indigenous social affairs: namely, are governments best placed to drive social change or to determine policy imperatives; and if not, are there alternate ways to generate good policy? An anthropological approach will be used to observe government policy at work. The research will explore the institutional reasons behind the gap between intention and outcome in Indigenous social policy; how failure cycles in policy are replicated; and possible techniques for creating and implementing a new ethics of policy engagement.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-05-2010

End Date: 09-08-2016

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $775,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Cultural Studies | Cultural Policy Studies | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies | Social And Cultural Anthropology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Public services management | Social structure and health | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander development and welfare |

Other Keywords

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander development and welfare | Cultural Policy Studies | Cultural Studies | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies | Public services management | Social And Cultural Anthropology | Social structure and health

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