RESEARCH TRANSLATION
POVERTY AND INEQUALITY IN AUSTRALIA
UNSW RESEARCH
The work of the Poverty and Inequality Partnership is to deliver the highest quality evidence of trends in poverty and inequality in Australia . In partnership with ACOSS , it monitors trends over time , explores drivers , and develops solutions to sharpen the focus and stimulate action to tackle these policy challenges .
The Partnership ’ s comprehensive website captures these achievements and provides advocacy-ready information and summaries . Its research has had enormous reach , with numerous media presentations , 33 mentions in Parliament , and school-based resources with a reach of more than 40,000 students .
To translate its expertise , it has developed a targeted short course for people in government , non-government and the corporate sector . The course offers a unique academicled , research-and-impact grounded curriculum , teaching key competencies to understand poverty and inequality in Australia and the major social policy structures that impact it .
PUBLIC SERVICE RESEARCH GROUP ( PSRG )
UNSW RESEARCH
The Public Service Research Group ( PSRG ) starts from the position that implementing policy is
> Identified students in need of intervention through grade-wide screening and a teacher-referral pathway .
> Delivered ‘ School PCIT ’ early intervention to students with disruptive behaviour problems and their parents and teachers at school . This will provide parents and teachers with skills to build a positive relationship with , and effectively manage the behaviour of , these at-risk children . tricky , and that tricky problems cannot be solved
with a ‘ cookie cutter ’ approach . Consequently , research within PSRG focuses on issues of policy implementation in a public service context .
Activity falls within four themes : Capability , Complex Systems , Ethics , and Inclusion . PSRG performs timely , high-quality and reliable research into public policy implementation . It partners with organisation clients , including not-for-profits , the public sector and private organisations to produce new insights into effective public-service implementation and evaluation to solve real-world problems .
> High quality journal articles attracting attention and citations .
> Commissioned research request emerging from published reports and papers .
> Submissions to Royal Commissions referred to in the findings .
> Research led Webinars and Executive Education delivered to the APS .
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