Research projects
Current
Health equity implications of COVID-19
The Australian Government, like many governments worldwide, initiated a significant public policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Heritage and reconciliation
This collaborative ARC Discovery Project led by Cressida Fforde aims to re-conceptualise heritage from a standpoint of reconciliation.
How should we modernise document execution in Australia?
COVID-19 changed the way Australians engage with digital technologies and demonstrated an acceleration in the uptake of digital technologies by Australian businesses and consumers.
Improving the impact of state and non-state interventions in overcoming sorcery accusation related violence in PNG
Sorcery accusation related violence is seen as a growing problem in PNG and has attracted domestic and international calls for an effective government response.
Indigenous natural resource management and livelihoods
Professor Jon Altman is the Oceania regional leader on the in the major international comparative project Centre pour la conservation et le développement autochtones alternatifs (CCDAA) or Centre for
INFORMAS trade and investment module
The INFORMAS trade and investment module is primarily concerned with understanding the risks and benefits to healthy food environments and diets from trade agreements, through the establishment of a m
Law and Justice Development Community of Practice
The Law and Justice Development Community of Practice (LJCoP) brings together practitioners engaged in regional and international law and justice initiatives funded by Australia.
Local responses to missing persons and post-conflict peacebuilding
The International Commission of the Red Cross (ICRC) currently registers 100,000 people as missing due to conflict; it acknowledges that number is only a fraction of the real total (ICRC 2018).
Mapping the Digital Welfare State
This project examines how technologies, such as biometrics, predictive algorithms and risk assessments, are increasingly used in the context of social assistance provision and regulation.
Maximizing consumer ability to manage electricity demand
Working with ActewAGL, the research team will evaluate the extent to which poorly insulated homes limit people’s ability to control bills when on demand management rates such as time-of-use.
