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Completed projects

Below are details of research projects undertaken by the Academy, utilising research funds made available by the ARC and others. For more detail on each project including information where available on publications from these projects, please follow the links.

2008
Integration and Multiculturalism: A Harmonious Combination
Project Directors: Dr James Jupp (ANU) and Professor Michael Clyne (Monash University)

The Project will apply several social science disciplines, namely Linguistics, Sociology, Demography, Political Science, History and Psychology. These will focus on issues raised by the transformation of Australia into a multicultural society as a result of post-1945 immigration. Among these issues are the maintenance and consolidation of social... Learn more

Publication arising from this project.

2007
Creativity and Innovation: Social Science Perspectives and Policy Implications
Project Directors: Professors Janet Chan (UNSW) and Leon Mann (University of Melbourne)

This project aims to provide a multidisciplinary social science understanding of creativity and innovation. The project will examine how nine different social science disciplines -sociology, psychology, law, management, economics, history, policy studies, education and political science -- conceptualise and explain creativity and innovation and ... Learn more

2007
Australian Bureau of Statistics 'Census 2006' Project

The Academy was approached by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in mid-2006, seeking involvement in a collaborative research project, aimed at taking advantage of the rich source material produced from the 2006 Australian Census. Overseen by ASSA and using funds and customised Census data from the ABS, the project applied the expertise of lea... Learn more

2006
New Social Policy Approaches for Sharing Risk
Project Directors: Professor Bruce Chapman (ANU) and Dr Glenn Withers

In 2007 the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia received funding from the Australian Research Council for a research project titled - New social policy approaches for sharing risk. The project sought to develop principles for the application of the internationally innovative public policy, income contingent loans (ICLs). ICLs ar... Learn more

Publication arising from this project.

2006
Commissioned Research Program

As a result of receipt from the Department of Education, Science and Training of supplemtary funds from the Higher Education Innovation Program, ASSA was able in 2005 to commit funds to towards commissioned policy-informing research. The aim of the research was present research findings from specialist academics and to stimulate debate on areas... Learn more

2005
Internal Migration and Australian mobility beyond the millennium
Project Directors: Professor Martin Bell (UQ), Professor Graeme Hugo (University of Adelaide) and Professor Peter McDonald (ANU)

In November 2004 $100,000 of funding was announced for the ASSA Special Project, Patterns of population mobility and internal migration in Australia. The research project team was led by Professors Martin Bell, School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, University of Queensland, Peter McDonald, RSSS, Demography Program, ANU and Graeme Hugo... Learn more

2004
What is to be done with management ethics? Addressing national needs and priorities

There are no available notes about this project.

Publication arising from this project.

2003
Building a better future for our children

There are no available notes about this project.

Publication arising from this project.

2002
Rethinking wellbeing: Policy and program issue in disability, disadvantage and community development

There are no available notes about this project.

Publication arising from this project.

2001
Sustainability of Australian rural communities

There are no available notes about this project.

Publication arising from this project.