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The School of Social Work and Human Services has a long history in teaching and research in social policy. It is one of the School's recognised core teaching, research and service strengths. Given the current environment in which we work, the School recognises the need for leadership in critically informed and practical engagement with social policy issues at a state, national and international level. Consequently, at a meeting in November 2004, staff endorsed a proposal to establish a Social Policy Unit within the School. The Unit has three main aims:
1. To promote, both internally in the University and externally in the community, the existence of a group of scholars with expertise in social policy research, teaching and consultancy;
2. To develop the social policy discipline and its visibility at UQ and in Australia;
3. To develop partnerships with external bodies to promote public debate and advocacy on key contemporary social policy issues.
For further information about the Unit's research activities and events please contact Dr Paul Henman (Director of the Social Policy Unit). For information on social policy postgraduate teaching contact Dr Rose Melville.
1. To promote, both internally in the University and externally in the community, the existence of a group of scholars with expertise in social policy research, teaching and consultancy;
2. To develop the social policy discipline and its visibility at UQ and in Australia;
3. To develop partnerships with external bodies to promote public debate and advocacy on key contemporary social policy issues.
For further information about the Unit's research activities and events please contact Dr Paul Henman (Director of the Social Policy Unit). For information on social policy postgraduate teaching contact Dr Rose Melville.
About the Social Policy Unit
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Australian Costs of Raising Children, by Dr Paul HenmanEvery parent can bear testimony to the financial costs of raising children that are coupled with the rich joys of parenting. However, in recent years rigorous research on the financial costs of raising children have been demanded by a number of sect... |
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Performing Policy ProgramTuesday, 9 February 2010, The University of Queensland Program (For more information on speakers and top... |
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Performing Policy:
A one-day symposium with Professor Michael Lipsky from Georgetown University and Demos USA and author of the influential Street Level Bureaucracy
While formal policy gets considerable academic and po...
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Social Policy Unit PublicationsThe Experience of Using Fringe Lenders in Queensland - A Pilot Study |
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