Research Publications

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Just Places

What works for place-based approaches? Research report and case studies
- 2022
- Centre for Just Places
Place-based approaches are an innovative way to address disadvantage and inequity, strengthen resilience to crises in place, and build thriving and resilient communities. In 2021-22, the Centre led a consortium of research partners examining literature, evidence and practice to understand what features enable the success of place-based approaches and how to best support them – information essential to improving the wellbeing of Victorian communities into the future.

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Just Places

Collaborative Action Plan for climate justice in Melbourne’s west
- 2022
- Centre for Just Places
This Collaborative Action Plan is the result of a year-long project to articulate a shared vision for climate justice in Melbourne’s west. The Plan builds on the diverse contributions of individuals and organisations already working at the interface of climate change, health and social justice in Melbourne’s west, and seeks to further understand the localised and systemic drivers of climate vulnerabilities for community health and service organisations in Melbourne’s west.

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Just Places

Dropping off the Edge – VicHealth report
- 2022
- Centre for Just Places
VicHealth commissioned the Centre to produce this report which deep dives into locational disadvantage in Victoria, with a greater focus on health and wellbeing inequities.

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Just Places

Climate Justice in Practice
- 2021
- Centre for Just Places
Addressing social inequity and climate resilience through place-based capacity building with community service organisations and local governments. The Centre presented this paper at the State of Australasian Cities Conference 2021.

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Just Places

Health, housing and ecological justice: Climate change and preventing homelessness deaths
- 2021
- Centre for Just Places
This paper explores the health risks to homeless communities posed by increasingly frequent extreme weather caused by climate change.

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Communal disadvantage

Dropping Off the Edge 2021
- 2021
- Andrew Yule, Lain Dare, Marita McCabe, Robert Tanton
Dropping off the Edge 2021 is the fifth instalment in a research series, clearly showing that complex and entrenched disadvantage is experienced by a small but persistent number of locations in each state and territory across Australia. As a society we cannot, and should not, turn away from the challenge of persistent and entrenched locational disadvantage, no matter how difficult it may be to solve the problem.
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Gender Justice

Unpacking the Man Box
- 2020
- Marita McCabe, Matt Tyler, Michael Flood
Unpacking the Man Box is based on a survey of 1,000 young Australian men aged 18 to 30. The report builds on the findings of The Men’s Project’s 2018 report The Man Box. The new study finds young Australian men’s belief in rigid masculine stereotypes has a stronger impact on whether they will use violence, sexually harass women, or experience mental ill-health themselves, than other factors including their education levels, where they live or their cultural heritage.

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Support after suicide

We were fighting the system as well as the illness: Family perceptions of how Victoria responds to people at risk of suicide and their loved ones
- 2020
This report explores the perspectives of family members of people in Victoria whose loved ones took their own lives. It describes how they viewed Victoria’s complex mental health system, both in how it responded to their loved one and to themselves.

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Justice Solutions

Justice Solutions New Zealand Tour
- 2019
In 2019, senior leaders from Jesuit Social Services embarked on a study trip to New Zealand to learn more about innovative approaches to dealing with adults and young people who have contact with the criminal justice system. The New Zealand justice system faces similar challenges to Australia’s justice system – a high incarceration rate despite a drop in the rate of offending and a significant over-representation of indigenous people in the justice system. There are, however, pockets of success and innovation that could help inform us here in Australia. These include: political will and leadership; an appetite for innovation; the strong connection to culture; a commitment to a restorative justice approach to offending; and the acknowledgement of the importance of relationship and connection for all people.

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Support after suicide

Tell Me What Happened
- 2019
Many people feel daunted by the idea of telling a child about the suicide death of a loved one. This book features professional tips and advice on talking with children and young people about suicide, as well as first-person stories by program participants.
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