Program

Monday 9th September — Monday

08:30 AM
Conference Registration
Location:
Foyer
09:30 AM
Welcome to Country
Speaker(s):
Lola Callaghan, La Perouse Aboriginal Community
09:35 AM
Official Opening
Speaker(s):
Scientia Professor Carla Treloar, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
Location:
Leighton Hall (ground floor)
09:40 AM
Opening Plenary
Chair:
Professor Peter Saunders, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
Speaker(s):
Professor Olli Kangas, Academy of Finland and University of Turku
Location:
Leighton Hall (ground floor)
What – if anything - can we learn from the Finnish basic income experiment?
10:55 AM
Presentation of the Australian Journal of Social Issues Peter Saunders Prize
Speaker(s):
Dr Katherine Curchin and Associate Professor Ben Edwards, Co-Editors of the Australian Journal of Social Issues
Location:
Leighton Hall (ground floor)
11:00 AM
Morning Tea
Location:
Foyer
11:30 AM
Contributed Papers
Poverty
Chair:
Cris Townley
Location:
Tyree Room (first floor)
Income support policy and poverty trends in 21st century Australia
Bruce Bradbury
Optimal policy modelling and welfare policy settings in Australia
Ben Phillips
Childhood poverty dynamics in Australia, 2001–2017
Matthew Curry
Aged care polices, practices, care inequalities and care poverty
Chair:
Cathy Thomson
Location:
Gallery 1 (ground floor)
Special session
What promotes person-centred care for older people? Findings from a survey of home care and residential aged care workers
Natasha Cortis, Gabrielle Meagher, Sara Charlesworth
Understanding unmet aged care need and care inequalities among older Australians
Trish Hill, Bettina Cass, Myra Hamilton, Cathy Thomson
The promise and the price: investigating the impact of marketising community care on older people and care workers
Gabrielle Meagher
Chinese social policy
Chair:
Zhiming Cheng
Location:
Gallery 2 (ground floor)
Shifts in state mission and the historical production of proletarian oblivion
Dorothy Solinger
Opening address
Perspectives on homelessness
Chair:
Anne O’Brien
Location:
Civil Engineering Building, Room G1 (ground floor)
Special session
A moment of transition: vagrancy and the homelessness problem
Anne O'Brien
‘Chronic homelessness’: what women’s experiences can tell us
Jane Bullen
Homelessness and tenancy law in Australia from a historical perspective
Heather Holst
Indigenous research
Chair:
Katinka van de Ven
Location:
Civil Engineering Building, Room G8 (ground floor)
Primary Health Networks and the undermining of self-determination in First Nations health
David Coombs
Yuwaya Ngarra-li: a community-led partnership between the Dharriwaa Elders Group and UNSW that is responding to the criminalisation of Aboriginal peoples
Ruth McCausland, Peta MacGillivray
Aboriginal community controlled research
Wendy Jopson, Ilan Katz
Financial inclusion
Chair:
Ching Choi
Location:
Gonski Room (ground floor)
Navigating the maze of complex eligibility requirements: understanding financial capabilities in the welfare state
Jeremiah Brown
Financial wellbeing and sustainable development goals: natural allies or strange bedfellows?
Archana Preeti Voola
Gambling in Australia: understanding social and economic outcomes in relation to problem gambling risk
Marisa Paterson, Matthew Taylor, Matthew Gray
12:30 PM
Lunch
Location:
Foyer
01:30 PM
Contributed Papers
Basic income, policy experiments and the competition state
Chair:
Alison Ritter
Location:
Tyree Room (first floor)
Special session
Advancing universalism in neoliberal times? Basic income, flat-rate entitlements and the politics of conditionality
Ben Spies-Butcher
Experimenting with wellbeing: basic income, immaterial labour and changing forms of productivity
Lisa Adkins, Hanna Ylöstalo
Creative social policy and universal basic income
Johannes Kananen
Basic income experiments: a waste of time?
Troy Henderson
Neoliberalism and basic income in Finland and Australia: lessons to be learned?
Joe Collins
Child safety and protection
Chair:
Karen Wilcox
Location:
Gallery 1 (ground floor)
Supporting survivors of child sexual abuse: opportunities for recognition and witnessing beyond the child abuse royal commission
Rebecca Moran
Victims/survivors’ perceptions of helpful institutional responses to incidents of institutional child sexual abuse
Gianfranco Giuntoli, Hazel Blunden, BJ Newton, Ilan Katz
Bolstering mandatory reporters' decision making to child protection situations
Annalese Bolton, Ben Newell, Simon Gandevia
Investing early to transform future outcomes
Gary Groves, Paula Cheng
kContact – improving contact between parents and children in out-of-home care: the main outcomes from a cluster randomized controlled trial
Aino Suomi
Chinese social policy: states and markets
Chair:
Qian Fang
Location:
Gallery 2 (ground floor)
Deservingness and domestic welfare chauvinism: evidence from a Chinese province
Alex Jingwei He
Technologies of authoritarian statecraft in welfare provision: contracting services to NGOs in China
Jude Howell, Yuanyuan Qu, Regina Enjuto Martinez
NGOs as welfare providers in China: emerging new modes of state control
Regina Enjuto Martinez, Jude Howell, Yuanyuan Qu
Public-private partnerships in rural schooling: property-led education in urbanising China
Yiran Li
The politics of implementing services contracting to NGOs in China
Yuanyuan Qu, Jude Howell, Regina Enjuto Martinez
Can the labour contract law effectively protect workers' social rights?
Jian Ding
Housing and homelessness
Chair:
Richard Mellor
Location:
Civil Engineering Building, Room G1 (ground floor)
Digital technologies and traditional advocacy: the case of Australian housing and homelessness peak bodies
Eugenia Marembo
Housing, homelessness and mental health: identifying policy levers for systems change
Nicola Brackertz
The prevalence of homelessness amongst Australian veterans: Reporting findings and method from a national study
Fiona Hilferty, Ilan Katz
What should we learn from the National Rental Affordability Scheme?
Brendan Coates, John Daley, Carmela Chivers
An impossible task? The City of Sydney’s endeavours to increase its supply of affordable housing
Alan Morris
Indigenous policy
Chair:
Carla Treloar
Location:
Civil Engineering Building, Room G8 (ground floor)
Why doesn’t Indigenous Affairs look back?
Prudence Brown
Social impact bonds or Whānau Ora commissioning agencies: which is more likely to improve indigenous outcomes?
Louise Humpage
Whānau Ora in the age of social investment: an oxymoron?
Charlotte Moore
The Valuation of Indigenous Knowledge in Current and Future Markets
Boyd Hunter, Boyd Blackwell
Examining and decolonising networks underlying policy construction
Jodie Kidd
Funding and organising service delivery
Chair:
Ciara Smyth
Location:
Gonski Room (lground floor)
Perceptions of funding and commissioning models for alcohol and other drug treatment services in Australia: a qualitative study of service providers and policymakers
Katinka van de Ven, Alison Ritter, Kari Lancaster, Lynda Berends, Jenny Chalmers
Outcomes based contracting in child protection: what are the pitfalls and what can we do about them?
Wendy Foote, Jennifer Mason
Conceptualising venture philanthropy in Australia
Axelle Marjolin
Collaboration in practice: lessons from a youth unemployment initiative
Isabella Saunders, Jack Noone, Fanny Salignac, Ariella Meltzer
Enabling environmentally focused community groups responding to climate change: Practices of co-governance in developing and implementing policy in complex and dynamic settings
Rachel Tumminello, Douglas Paton, Petra Buergelt
03:10 PM
Afternoon Tea
Location:
Foyer
03:40 PM
Contributed Papers
Child care package
Chair:
Elizabeth Adamson
Location:
Tyree Room (first floor)
Special session
An overview of the Child Care Package and the evaluation approach
Kelly Hand
Patterns of child care use and child care supply, before and since the Child Care Package
Megan Carroll
The experiences of services and families in transitioning to the new package
Jennifer Baxter
Insights about experiences of the Child Care Package for families and services
Cara Rogers
Disability, policy and governance
Chair:
Jackie Leach Scully
Location:
Gallery 1 (ground floor)
Delegation, discretion and diplomacy: theorising street-level policy work of the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Eloise Hummell, Michele Foster, Karen Fisher, Paul Henman, Catherine Needham
Implied or prescribed? How collaboration at major interfaces is designed into individualised disability funding policy in Australia and England
Michele Foster, Catherine Needham, Karen Fisher, Paul Henman, Eloise Hummell, Alyssa Venning
Co-designing mutual recognition in paid disability support relationships
Sally Robinson, Karen Fisher, Laura Davy
Accessible data analysis in inclusive disability research methods: a systematic technique for increasing rigour
Sally Robinson, Karen Fisher, Jaimsie Speeding, Anne Graham, Kate Neale, Kelley Johnson, Ed Hall
Chinese social policy: policy and ageing
Chair:
Bingqin Li
Location:
Gallery 2 (ground floor)
State-made market and society: practicing welfare pluralism in elderly care of the Chinese context
Lijie Fang
Sustainability of mutual ageing program from the perspective of resource dependence theory: a case study of mutual ageing home in China
Yan Lu
Beyond family: the new social risk, gender and public funding of the old aged service in China
Yi Ding
Does expected replacement rate at retirement affect the consumption of the unretired? Evidence from China
Wei Zheng, Youji Lyu, Ruo (Alex) Jia, Katja Hanewald
Beyond the three E’s: country, community, family and individual factors associated with refugee integration
Chair:
Sylvester Okeke
Location:
Civil Engineering Building, Room G1 (ground floor)
Special session
Developmental and acculturation predictors of changes in self-efficacy among new arrived refugee youth: a national study in Australia
Ben Edwards
Understanding the school readiness of refugee children in Australia and Canada
Ben Edwards, Monique Gagne, Martin Guhn
The impact of family separation and worry about family upon psychological adjustment in refugees resettled in Australia
David Berle, Georgia Fogden
Longitudinal association between trust, psychological symptoms and community engagement in resettled refugees in Australia
Angela Nickerson
Child wellbeing
Chair:
Fiona Hilferty
Location:
Civil Engineering Building, Room G8 (ground floor)
'Working through it’: a youth survey report on economically disadvantaged young people
Jo Fildes, Jacqueline Plummer, Erin Carlisle
Applying ARACY’s Nest framework to measure child deprivation and opportunity in Australia
Kate Sollis
Medicare Benefit Schedule (MBS) service engagement among a prospective cohort of children with symptoms of poor psychological adjustment: trends, gaps and unmet need
Brendan Quinn, Diana Warren, Elly Robinson, Laura Hayes, Catherine Wade, Galina Daraganova, Pilar Rioseco
Growing up digital: understanding the impact of digital technology on health, learning and equity in Australia
Pasi Sahlberg, Amy Graham, Courtenay Atwell
Young parents, lone parents and social policy
Chair:
Vivienne Moxham-Hall
Location:
Gonski Room (ground floor)
Becoming a parent and keeping a home: meaning making and resilience among young parents with experiences of housing instability and homelessness
Elizabeth Conroy, Brianna Perrens, Julie Jasprizza-Laus
From being ‘at risk’ to being ‘a risk’: journeys into parenthood among disadvantaged young mothers
Megan Blaxland, Myra Hamilton, Jennifer Skattebol
Mutual obligation as a roadblock to trauma-informed care: the case of ParentsNext
Katherine Curchin
Domestic violence, social security law and the couple rule
Lyndal Sleep
05:00 PM
Drinks Reception
Location:
Foyer

Tuesday 10th September — Tuesday

08:30 AM
Registration
Location:
Foyer
09:00 AM
Opening Address
Speaker(s):
Professor Ian Jacobs, President and Vice-Chancellor, UNSW Sydney
Location:
Leighton Hall (ground floor)
09:10 AM
Plenary
Chair:
Scientia Professor Carla Treloar, Director, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
Speaker(s):
Associate Professor Sarah Cook, Institute for Global Development, UNSW Sydney
Location:
Leighton Hall (ground floor)
Gender, welfare and the economy of care: how China’s social policy system shapes women’s opportunities and gender equality
10:25 AM
Morning Tea
Location:
Foyer
10:55 AM
Contributed Papers
Compulsory income management
Chair:
Louise Humpage and Greg Marston
Location:
Tyree Room (first floor)
Special session
Policy convergence or policy translation? Compulsory income management in Australia and New Zealand
Louise Humpage, Greg Marston
‘Human becomings’ in neoliberal welfare policy: representations of childhood in Australian and New Zealand discourses regarding compulsory income management
Michelle Peterie
Income management and crime: rethinking evidence and theory
Zoe Staines
The makings of a toxic triad: conditionality, automation and privatisation – the case of the Cashless Debit Card
Sue Tilley
The impact of insufficient community consultation in the Kununarra CDC trial
Beverley Walley
Experiences and wellbeing of unpaid carers
Chair:
Christy Newman
Location:
Gallery 1 (ground floor)
Combining paid work and eldercare: a review of findings from the 2018 Carers NSW survey
Hugh Bainbridge, Sarah Judd-Lam
Economic and social policy implications associated with caring for people with chronic conditions
Sarah Judd-Lam, Melanie Zeppel
Mental health carers’ wellbeing and social and economic participation
Grace Cherrington, Zoi Triandafilidis
The effect of spousal caregiving on depressive symptoms among older male caregivers in China
Xinyi Zhao, Quan Zhang, Vivian Weiqun Lou
Chinese social policy: poverty reduction
Chair:
Zhiming Cheng
Location:
Gallery 2 (ground floor)
Poverty alleviation as an instrument of political manoeuvring and technical governance in rural China
Yuegen Xiong
Collective sharing, innovation, and precise poverty alleviation in China
Chienchung Huang, Lijie Fang
The identification criteria and process of child poverty in China by government and social organizations: differential approaches and its implications
Di Qi
Income inequality among the old: evidence from China
Katja Hanewald, Ruo Jia, Zining Liu
The dilemma of identifying absolute poverty in China and its possible solutions
Chao An
Young people, health and drugs
Chair:
Jodie Kidd
Location:
Civil Engineering Building, Room G1 (ground floor)
Health care equity and access for marginalised young people: a longitudinal qualitative study exploring health system navigation
Fiona Robards
Digital media and informal knowledge networks among gender and sexually diverse young people in Australia and Scotland
Lisa McDaid, Ruth Lewis, Allyson Mutch, Lisa Fitzgerald
An integrated approach to reducing young people’s risk of homelessness and HIV/STI in Pakistan
Muhammad Naveed Noor, Sujith Kumar
Welfare interventions in the context of advocacy and surveillance: the experiences of marginalised drug-users
Maja Lindegaard Moensted, Carolyn Day
Applying a ‘Harm to Others’ research framework to illicit drugs research: political discourses and ambiguous policy implications
Claire Wilkinson, Alison Ritter
International social policy
Chair:
Bingqin Li
Location:
Civil Engineering Building, Room G8 (ground floor)
Welfare attitudes toward redistribution: a comparative study among China, Sweden, the USA and Germany
Huihui Gong, Huamin Peng, Yeqing Huang
Social health insurance and inequality in China
Li Sun, Juntao Lyu, Ying Zhao, Tao Liu
Challenges affecting programme beneficiary wellbeing through the use of non-contributory government cash support
Kennedy Osei
Research reports on rural community building in China
Jingyu Wang
Evaluating community governance in China: the practice of X District
Xiaoyan Li
Transforming support for kinship carers: developing policy and practice in Australia and the UK
Speaker(s):
Lucy Peake, Meredith Kiraly
Location:
Gonski Room (ground floor)
Workshop
12:35 PM
Lunch
Location:
Foyer
01:35 PM
Contributed Papers
What’s the value of a human rights approach in social policy? The case of gender equality
Chair:
Myra Hamilton
Speaker(s):
Louise Chappell, Libby Lyons, Beth Goldblatt, Sally Moyle
Location:
Tyree Room (first floor)
Special session hosted by the Australian Human Rights Institute
Disability
Chair:
Karen Fisher
Location:
Gallery 1 (ground floor)
Understanding supply and potential undersupply of Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA)
Diana Ferner
Disability and older people: issues and challenges
Trevor Parmenter, Marie Knox, Rafat Hussain, Stuart Wark, Matthew Janicki
Group rights and the NDIS
Tessa-May Zirnsak
Sexuality and relationship rights for people with acquired brain injury
Amie O'Shea
Chinese social policy: families and children
Chair:
Xiaoyuan Shang
Location:
Gallery 2 (ground floor)
The one child policy and savings in China
Zhongchen Song, Tom Coupe, Bob Reed
Shadow education facilitates the '996' overwork? The effects of parental working hours on children's shadow education hours with differences by parental gender
Jie Wang, Bofan Liu
The developing child abuse mandatory reporting system in China: a mixed-method research on social workers
Zimin Tan
Why are they not talking ? An empirical study on self-disclosure of child sexual abuse from sociocultural perspective
Tian Tian, Xiaoyuan Shang
Publish or parenting: how have women academics coped in higher education in China?
Bingqin Li, Yang Shen
Social security, conditionality and risk
Chair:
Michael McGann / Dina Bowman
Location:
Civil Engineering Building, Room G1 (ground floor)
Special session
Reclaiming social security for a just future
Dina Bowman, Danielle Thornton, Shelley Mallett
The impact of social security reforms on single mothers and their children
David Tennant, Kelly Bowey
The category game and its impact on street-level bureaucrats and jobseekers: an Australian case study
Siobhan O'Sullivan, Michael McGann, Mark Considine
Representations of welfare recipients and the production of stigma power: a critical analysis of pejorative and fraud language in newspaper reporting during an intense period of welfare reform
Sonia Martin, Timothy Schofield, Peter Butterworth
Conditional income, conditional lives
Marcus Banks, Dina Bowman
Measuring wellbeing and data gaps
Chair:
Ciara Smyth
Location:
Civil Engineering Building, Room G8 (ground floor)
Explaining the low overlap between income poverty and material deprivation: evidence for Australia
Peter Saunders, Yuvisthi Naidoo
The measurement of cultural diversity in Australia: a brief history
Lev Makaev
Monitoring progress on the social determinants of health for Australians with disabilities: national data gaps and policy implications
Nicola Fortune, Shane Clifton, Gwynnyth Llewellyn
Prevalence of elder abuse using ABS data
Ilan Katz, Trish Hill
Expanding notions of economic living standards and its relationship to subjective well-being: an Australian case study
Yuvisthi Naidoo
Family violence
Chair:
Christy Newman
Location:
Gonski Room (ground floor)
'Safe at Home' responses to domestic and family violence: what we know about an evolving policy and practice field
Jan Breckenridge, kylie valentine, Kyllie Cripps
The role of technology in perpetrating, and preventing, domestic and family violence: evaluating a new safety response
kylie valentine, Sandra Gendera
Striving for gender equality: representations of gender in “progressive” domestic violence policy
Ella Kuskoff
Messages from the frontline: frontline domestic and family violence workers having a voice in response to national policy development and implementation
Ruth Phillips, Susan Heward-Belle, Susan Goodwin
03:15 PM
Afternoon Tea
Location:
Foyer
03:45 PM
Contributed Papers
Pathways of care longitudinal study
Chair:
Courtney Breen
Location:
Tyree Room (first floor)
Special session
Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS): introduction to the study and how children in out-of-home care are developing over time
Joanna Hopkins, Merran Butler, Marina Paxman, Henry Durant
Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study: how does placement stability influence children’s developmental outcomes over time?
Nafisa Asif, Courtney Breen, Robert Wells, Albert Zhou
Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study: caseworker contact and relationships with children in out-of-home care
Ilan Katz
Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study: educational outcomes for children in out-of-home care
Michelle Townsend
Understanding the family life of transmissible infections
Chair:
Christy Newman
Location:
Gallery 1 (Ground floor)
Special Session
Introducing the ‘my health, our family’ study
Christy Newman
How families matter to people diagnosed with a blood borne virus
Asha Persson
Navigating stigma, systems, and support: practices of care in families
kylie valentine
What next? Making a difference for families and communities
Joanne Bryant
Chinese social policy: urbanisation
Chair:
Bingqin Li
Location:
Gallery 2 (ground floor)
Spatial mismatch, enclave effects and employment outcomes for rural migrant workers: empirical evidence from Yunnan Province, China
Youqing Fan, Lanlan Bi, Mengtao Gao, Chyi Lin Lee, Guangbo Yin
Does migration affect medical service usage? Evidence from China
Sisi Yang, Bingqin Li
Dominant tenants and submissive landlords: how has the landlord been disadvantaged during the rural settlement demolition process in peri-urban Shanghai?
Jinwei Hao, Jin Zhu
Children and participation
Chair:
Paula Jops
Location:
Civil Engineering Building, Room G1 (ground floor)
Beyond the usual suspects: Participation and engagement of young people in research
Cathy Thomson
Stories of educational engagement among young people with complex families
Jennifer Skattebol
Fair Play: A project exploring the benefits of structured and unstructured opportunities for play in rural, remote and regional communities
Amy Graham, Fatemah Aminpour, Pasi Sahlberg, Adrian Piccoli, Courtenay Atwell
Academic performance of the first generation college students in rural areas
Wei Xu, Wei Huang, Fan Li, Xiaowei Liao, Juan Peng
Employment services, technology
Chair:
Eugenia Marembo
Location:
Civil Engineering Building, Room G8 (ground floor)
Locked-in or locked-out: Can a public services market really change?
Michael McGann, Siobhan O'Sullivan, Mark Considine, Phuc Nguyen
Security technologies: handmaidens to authoritarianism?
Debi Ashenden, Lizzie Coles-Kemp
05:30 PM
Chinese Social Policy Reception
Location:
John Goodsell Building, Rooms 221-223 (2nd floor)
06:30 PM
Chinese Social Policy Panel Discussion
Chair:
Professor Karen Fisher, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
Location:
John Goodsell Building, Rooms 221-223 (2nd floor)
Social policy research in China

Wednesday 11th September

08:30 AM
Registration
Location:
Foyer
09:00 AM
Plenary
Chair:
Professor Ilan Katz, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
Speaker(s):
Professor Alison Ritter, Drug Policy Modelling Program, UNSW Sydney
Location:
Leighton Hall (ground floor)
“Of good character” – the policy dialogue on drug testing welfare recipients in Australia
10:15 AM
Morning Tea
Location:
Foyer
10:45 AM
Contributed Papers
Australia’s welfare / social data
Chair:
Sara Mowle / Bruce Bradbury
Location:
Tyree Room (first floor)
Special session
An overview of Australia’s welfare
Matthew James
An innovative linked data platform to improve the wellbeing of children: The South Australian Early Childhood Data Project
John Lynch
Insights on migrants from integrated 2016 Census data
Lev Makaev
How do we use an area-based indicator for social policy? Lessons learned from a Child and Social Exclusion Index in Australia
Riyana Miranti, Laurie Brown, Robyn Seth-Purdie
The geography of personal and household incomes: data from the Census of Australia, 2016
Ian Manning
Disability and diversity
Chair:
Sandra Gendera
Location:
Gallery 1 (ground floor)
Accessing the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS): views and experience of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities
Ayah Wehbe, Charlotte Smedley, Thushara Senaratna, Julie Duong
Using coproduction to enhance culturally responsive disability services
Qian Fang, Karen Fisher
Harnessing client feedback in the social sector
Diana Ferner
Understanding the experience of income and financial security for blind street musicians in Thailand
Quanchai Kerddaen
Understanding mission and purpose: an insight from NDIS for-profit providers
Ivy Yen
Chinese social policy: health policy
Chair:
Limin Mao
Location:
Gallery 2 (ground floor)
Can medical insurance reduce poverty? Evidence from the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in rural China
Genghua Huang, Yin Ma
Towards strengthened primary care in China: achievements and obstacles
Xiao Tan
Study on nutritional health status and early development influencing factors of left-behind children in rural areas of China
Yichao Wu
Changes in incidence and mortality of cervical cancer in Rural China (2004-2017) after introduction of a screening programme
Menghan Guo, Juan Xu, Zhiguo Zhang, Lining Shen, Zhanchun Feng, Mingfang Huang, Qifei Wu, Hao Chen, Li Jing
Benefit of China’s social health insurance schemes: trend analysis and associated factors since health reform
Wanyue Dong, Anthony Zwi, Jianmin Gao
Impact of the new healthcare reform in China on the equity of health resources allocation based on segmented regression model
Chenghong Li, Zhiguo Zhang
Relationships, parenting and wellbeing
Chair:
Elizabeth Adamson
Location:
Civil Engineering Building, Room G1 (ground floor)
Communication technology use by separated parents: A recent snapshot
Bruce Smyth, Giverney Ainscough
Relationship breakdown and subjective wellbeing – A comparative cross-country analysis
Lixia Qu, Matthew Gray, David Stanton, Ruth Weston
Causality and policy evaluation: Does intergenerational coresidence increase childbirth?
Takayuki Sasaki
The role of time use in explaining gender differences in mothers’ and fathers’ mental health
Nataliya Iyushina
Family identity and community playgroups
Cris Townley
Aged care services
Chair:
Yuvisthi Naidoo
Location:
Civil Engineering Building, Room G8 (ground floor)
Linking the silos: ageing, disability and support services
Rafat Hussain, Trevor Parmenter, Stuart Wark, Matthew Janicki, Marie Knox
Self-managing aged home care packages
Carmel Laragy
Older adults’ perceptions of services provided to enable healthy living in east asia
K Moore
Migration, ageing and digital kinning: the role of distant care support networks in aged care
Loretta Baldassar, Raelene Wilding
Introducing private long-term care insurance in an ageing Asian society: the case of Hong Kong
Alex Jingwei He
12:25 PM
Lunch
Location:
Foyer
01:25 PM
Contributed Papers
Big data and social policy
Chair:
Peter Saunders
Location:
Tyree Room (first floor)
Special session
Data linkage for service targeting and policy design: brave new world or more of the same?
Peter Saunders, Ilan Katz, Sheila Shaver
Technical considerations when implementing digital infrastructure for social policy
Marco Fahmi, David Abramson
Evaluation through data linkage of the impact on child outcomes of place-based services for families and children in disadvantaged communities
Ross Homel, Judy Rose, Ilan Katz, Sama Low-Choy
Social policy as re-investment: can justice (re-) investment overcome fiscal constraints on social spending?
Chair:
Carla Treloar
Location:
Gallery 1 (ground floor)
Special session
A community led approach to justice reinvestment: impact of Maranguka Justice Reinvestment in Bourke and potential benefits for other communities and government
Karly Warner, Mark Riboldi
Financing justice reinvestment: Three challenges for public sector accounting
Gareth Bryant, Ben Spies-Butcher
The spatiality of neoliberalism: accounting for staff in a private prison
Max Baker, Jane Andrew
Chinese social policy: migration and belonging
Chair:
Claire Wilkinson
Location:
Gallery 2 (ground floor)
Integration, social mobility and belonging--the life experiences of Chinese gay and lesbian migrants in Australia
Cliff Chen
Rural-to-urban migration, unfair treatment, and subjective social status in China
Zihong Deng
Rural migrants get integrated in urban China: the impact of health insurance
Lijian Qin, Hong Chen
Permanency practice in out-of-home care
Chair:
Amy Conley Wright
Location:
Civil Engineering Building, Room G1 (ground floor)
Special session
Participatory, arts-based research with young people about the meanings of permanency
Susan Collings, Amy Conley Wright, Freija Brandie, Emily Backhouse
Action research to develop relationship-building practices for children in permanent care
Amy Conley Wright, Susan Collings, Judy Cashmore, Lynette Riley
Co-design to develop an evidence-informed permanency practice framework
Annette Michaux, Amy Conley Wright, Betty Luu
Early childhood
Chair:
Deb Brennan
Location:
Civil Engineering Building, Room G8 (ground floor)
Migrant nannies and migrant grannies: New migration pathways and in-home childcare in Australia
Myra Hamilton, Elizabeth Adamson, Angela Kintominas
The determinants of self-rated job demands amongst Early Childhood Educators and Carers
Michael Bittman, Linda Harrison, Judith E. Brown
Closing the gap on educational outcomes: Evidence from a national evaluation of the Home Interaction Program for Parents and Youngsters (HIPPY)
Tim Gilley
02:25 PM
Afternoon Tea
Location:
Foyer
02:55 PM
Closing Plenary: Perspectives on Poverty and Inequality in Australia
Chair:
Jacqueline Phillips, Director of Policy and Advocacy, ACOSS
Speaker(s):
Professor Peter Saunders, Dr Cassandra Goldie, Owen Bennett
Location:
Tyree Room (first floor)
This plenary session will explore three different perspectives on poverty and inequality in Australia – the academic, the advocate and the lived experience perspective, drawing on the strengths of the Poverty and Inequality Partnership between the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) and UNSW.