Research Clusters
Members are invited to submit proposals for clusters in their area of interest by emailing the Centre Manager. For information about the criteria for setting up click here.
Community Capacity Building / Community Development
- Intersection of community development theory and practice
- Critical evaluation of ‘capacity building’, ‘social capital’, ‘empowerment’ and other conpects
- Capacity building/community development and community formation
- Civic participation
- Participatory social policy
For more information, click here.
Critical Theory and Social Hope
- History and contemporary relevance of critical social theory
- The experience of injustice and struggles for recognition
- The relation between cultural and economic orders
- Liberal democracy and the public sphere
- The future of social hope
- Social Movements
- Recognition and justice in the workplace
Environmental and Social Justice
- Details soon
Migration, Multiculturalism and Nation
- Migrants, migration and transnational communities
- Refugees and the politics and experience of asylum
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism
- Intercultural relations within multi-ethnic societies and across borders
- Racism and social exclusion
- Policing and representing nations and borders, ethnicities and identities
Religion and Social Inclusion
- Details soon
Welfare, Care and Social Policy
- Care and Care giving
- Social aspects of ageing
- Formal and informal care
- Social policy in the areas of health, age, disability, care, social capital, and welfare
Inclusion and Exclusion in Urban and Regional Spaces
- The formation and dissolution of community ties (especially around ethnicity, class, place, work) in contemporary global cities
- Neighbourhood and community studies (especially sites and forms of inclusion and exclusion in Australian cities)
- New and old forms of social capital in urban contexts
- The impact and experience of poverty amid affluence
- The role of place in social inclusion/exclusion
More information on our research is available under the research page.
In addition to the wide variety of research produced by our researchers, the Centre also undertakes commissioned research and has active research partnerships with the community and government sector. The Centre for Research on Social Inclusion is committed to disseminating the results of its research through publication and community outreach.