Overview
The Social Wellbeing, Health and Housing Research Program focuses on producing internationally recognised research regarding the wellbeing of individuals, families, neighbourhoods, cities and regions in Australian society.
It is concerned with:
- Conceptualising and measuring social wellbeing, and related concepts such as quality of life, health status and social inequality;
- Analysing the factors that impact on social wellbeing;
- Analysing social policies and programs designed to enhance social wellbeing.
The program covers fundamental research on the dynamics of social wellbeing and applied research addressing contemporary social issues.
Research is conducted across a range of social policy areas with a particular emphasis on health and housing, and the social wellbeing of groups including older people, people with disabilities, families and children, immigrants, and Australian Indigenous peoples.
Research Groups
Aboriginal Environments Research Centre
AHURI Queensland Research Centre
Current projects
- Living in Queensland Survey
- Reconceptualising housing need in the context of 21st Century Australian housing policy
- Social Futures and Life Pathways of Young people in Queensland - the "Our Lives" project.
- The Development and Application of a Conceptual and Statistical Framework for the Measurement of Non-market Factors Affecting Social Inequality and Social Wellbeing (Living in Queensland Survey)
- Regulatory frameworks and their utility for the not for profit housing sector
- Marital separation and divorce: social correlates gender differences and initiation
- Examining the impact of employment on social relationships in urban communities
- Family-Friendly Flexibility in Working Arrangement and Work-Family Balance: Taking into Account Coping Skills and Gender
- For Better of For Worse? Understanding the Revolution in Married Life in Australia
- Caring for new mothers and their families
- Doctoral candidates' housing decisions: The influence of higher education on home ownership
- Provisions of Casemix Review
- Student Visa Class - Gaining a better understanding of the integrity and impact of the student Visa Program
- Factors which may or may not influence Skilled Migrants to Locate in Developing Regional Areas
- Vietnam Veterans Family Study - Qualitative Semi-structured telephone interviews with sons and daughters of Vietnam Veterans (Tier 1a)
- Vietnam Veterans Family Study (Tier 2) Main Study
- Minor Injuries Longitudinal Study
People
- Professor Andrew Jones (Program Leader)
- Professor Mark Western
- Professor Paul Boreham
- Professor Janeen Baxter
- Professor Paul Memmott
- A/Prof Warren Laffan
- A/Prof Maria Zadoroznyj
- Dr Belinda Hewitt
- Dr Amity James
- Ms Rhonda Phillips
- Ms Natalie Josey
- Dr Jenny-Louise Povey
- Ms Nicola Seage
- Ms Michele Ferguson
- Dr Cameron Parsell
- Dr Kristen Davis
- Dr Bette Zhang
- Ms Jenine Godwin
- Ms Sandra Buchler
- Ms Denise Clague
Publications
For a select list of publications related to this program area, please click here.
