ORCID Profile
0000-0002-1904-7066
Current Organisation
University of Southern Queensland
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Community Child Health | Community Planning | Public Policy | Policy and Administration
Child Health | School/Institution Community and Environment | Social Class and Inequalities |
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2009
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2010
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 18-10-2013
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-04-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-01-2017
DOI: 10.1002/AJS4.257
Abstract: The arts remain largely absent from place‐based policy, planning and programming in Australia, despite a long history of working in place‐based ways to create positive social change in communities. This systematic review aimed to address this absence, by providing a synthesis of evidence about the role that place‐based arts can play in advancing social equity and addressing social disadvantage. Findings reveal a potential for the arts to create change across in idual, community and societal levels, yet empirical evidence to support this potential is weak. Stronger evaluation frameworks that can support capturing the impact of localised place‐based arts initiatives for translation into policy and practice are discussed.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-10-1995
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 29-09-2008
Abstract: In Australia, engaged scholarship oriented towards community development objectives has yet to be recognised in funding regimes as being inherently beneficial in terms of scholarly excellence and university rankings. While the civic role of universities is acknowledged by in idual universities, higher education management and at the Federal policy level, they are most often framed as funding problems related to ‘community service’ rather than as research opportunities which can raise the university’s profile by providing the basis for excellent research outputs and community enrichment. Community engagement has become a familiar term in the Australian higher education lexicon in recent years but there is still little institutional infrastructure that directly embodies the principles and sentiment of community engagement evident in current Australian universities. In this paper, the inaugural Director and Research Manager of the University of Queensland’s Community Service and Research Centre reflect on their five years leading a Centre that was/has been privileged to enjoy significant institutional support and the lessons learnt in forging into unknown territories. The reflections focus on the Centre’s seminal project, the Goodna Service Integration Project.
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 03-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-10-2017
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2010
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-2004
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-1999
DOI: 10.2307/2655040
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-03-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-04-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-08-2012
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 16-05-2019
Abstract: Disadvantaged communities tend to have poorer early childhood development outcomes. Access to safe, secure, and stable housing is a well-known social determinant of health but there is a need to examine key features of neighbourhood housing that reduce early childhood development inequities. The 2012 Australian Early Development Census (AEDC), a population-wide measure of early childhood development, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics Socio-economic Index for Areas Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage were used to select fourteen disadvantaged local communities in five Australian states and territories based on those performing better (off-diagonal), or as expected (on-diagonal) on the AEDC relative to their socio-economic profile. Between 2015–2017, qualitative and quantitative housing data were collected in the local communities. In total, 87 interviews with stakeholders, 30 focus groups with local service providers and parents, and Australian Census dwelling information were analysed. A comparative case study approach was used to examine differences in housing characteristics (e.g., public housing, density, affordability, and tenure) between disadvantaged local communities performing ‘better than expected’ and ‘as expected’ on early childhood development. Perceived better housing affordability, objectively measured housing tenure (ownership) and perceived and objectively measured lower-density public housing were housing characteristics that emerged as points of difference for disadvantaged local communities where children had relatively better early childhood development outcomes. These characteristics are potential modifiable and policy sensitive housing levers for reducing early childhood development inequities.
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 21-10-2020
Abstract: The Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Guide was released by the World Health Organization over a decade ago with the aim of creating environments that support healthy ageing. The comprehensive framework includes the domains of outdoor spaces and buildings, transportation, housing, social participation, respect and inclusion, civic participation and employment, communication and information, and community and health services. A major critique of the age-friendly community movement has argued for a more clearly defined scope of actions, the need to measure or quantify results and increase the connections to policy and funding levers. This paper provides a quantifiable spatial indicators framework to assess local lived environments according to each Age-Friendly Cities and Communities (AFC) domain. The selection of these AFC spatial indicators can be applied within local neighbourhoods, census tracts, suburbs, municipalities, or cities with minimal resource requirements other than applied spatial analysis, which addresses past critiques of the Age-Friendly Community movement. The framework has great potential for applications within local, national, and international policy and planning contexts in the future.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-02-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.1016/J.ACAP.2015.09.006
Abstract: Healthy child development is determined by a combination of physical, social, family, in idual, and environmental factors. Thus far, the majority of child development research has focused on the influence of in idual, family, and school environments and has largely ignored the neighborhood context despite the increasing policy interest. Yet given that neighborhoods are the locations where children spend large periods of time outside of home and school, it is plausible the physical design of neighborhoods (built environment), including access to local amenities, can affect child development. The relatively few studies exploring this relationship support associations between child development and neighborhood destinations, green spaces, interaction with nature, traffic exposure, and housing density. These studies emphasize the need to more deeply understand how child development outcomes might be influenced by the neighborhood built environment. Pursuing this research space is well aligned with the current global movements on livable and child-friendly cities. It has direct public policy impact by informing planning policies across a range of sectors (urban design and planning, transport, public health, and pediatrics) to implement place-based interventions and initiatives that target children's health and development at the community level. We argue for the importance of exploring the effect of the neighborhood built environment on child development as a crucial first step toward informing urban design principles to help reduce developmental vulnerability in children and to set optimal child development trajectories early.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-05-2014
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-04-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2005
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-09-2019
Start Date: 06-2014
End Date: 12-2018
Amount: $568,815.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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