Ella Kuskoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 312183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ella Kuskoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ella |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuskoff |
| SIGNATURE | KUSKOFF E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4124-6755 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A longitudinal study of the impact of disasters on individual wellbeing
Disasters disrupt people’s lives and continue to adversely impact them beyond the immediate aftermath. Whilst the literature establishes that disasters affect wellbeing through multiple channels, our paper contributes by examining the persistence of these effects over subsequent years and testing whether financial impacts serve as a key explanatory mechanism. Using rich, longitudinal data from Australia’s HILDA Survey, we employ mediation analysi…
A Shelter by Any Other Name? Delivering Homeless Crisis Accommodation Services in a Hotel
How to shelter people who are experiencing homelessness is a pressing social problem. A substantive literature critiques the congregate shelter model that is often coupled with paternalistic service delivery, bringing the relationship of service delivery and the built environment into focus. The COVID-19 pandemic forced a fast overhaul of the delivery of crisis accommodation, and saw homeless shelters replaced with commercial hotels. We conducted…
Framing homelessness: Competing critiques of and visions for society
Although there is agreement that homelessness is an urgent problem, there are stark disagreements about what type of problem homelessness is and what should be done about it. Homelessness never simply exists as a phenomenon; it evokes diagnosis of the problem and animates suggestions for what should be done differently to address it. Drawing on frame analysis, this article examines dominant arguments presented for what type of problem homelessnes…
Global Expectations for Bystander Intervention in Domestic Violence: A Scoping Review of Governmental Policies and Community Resources in Eight Countries
Tenant participation to enable the experience of home in social housing
Tenant participation in social housing is recognised as integral to good governance and has been incorporated in formal policy across many Western countries. While tenant participation has much intuitive appeal and is often viewed as a good thing of itself, there is limited empirical knowledge of the value it holds or why it should be progressed. This study contributes to contemporary research on tenant participation in social housing—including h…
What does it take to end homelessness? Tweaking or transforming systems
“There’s not much I can do about it”: Violence and control in marginal(izing) spaces
People's experiences of homelessness are also experiences of violence and distress.Individuals experiencing homelessness are often forced into unregulated places like shelters or rough sleeping, where violence thrives.Due to shelter shortages, Australia is using backpacker hostels and boarding houses to accommodate people experiencing homelessness, but how violence manifests in these settings is not well understood.We draw on ethnographic researc…
The Road to Unfreedom: Violence and Multidimensional Poverty Among Young Australian Women
Our study examined the cumulative impacts of violence from childhood through to adulthood on young women's multidimensional poverty risk. We analyzed six waves of data from the 1989-1995 birth cohort of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health ( N = 11,224 women), estimating multinomial logistic regression and fixed-effects logistic regression models. Our measure of multidimensional poverty captured women's deprivations in material, ed…
Social work’s role in both direct practice and advocacy to sustain tenancies and prevent homelessness
Social work is uniquely positioned to assist people to avoid evictions and to sustain at-risk tenancies through both direct practice and advocacy. The risk of housing loss and homelessness is an individual experience that social workers commonly seek to address through direct practice. Direct practice alone is insufficient. Social workers understand that achieving just and inclusive housing outcomes requires advocacy to underpin changes to housin…
Ontological pleasure: Exploring eating as enjoyment among people with experience of homelessness
Amidst globally escalating housing and cost of living crises, more and more people face the double challenge of securing shelter and food in their day-to-day lives. Yet, what meanings people with experience of homelessness attribute to eating is not well understood. We analyse eating as embedded in social relations between individual actors, social institutions, and organisations. We draw on a study conducted in Australia between March and Octobe…
Climbing, stalling, falling: How people experiencing housing instability anticipate their futures
For people experiencing housing instability, considerable uncertainty and future risks coincide with a lack of affordable housing supply. Housing instability often entails movement across different forms of accommodation while facing the possibility of homelessness. Thinking with anticipation outlined by Adams et al. as a regime of knowledge espousing specific governing principles, this study explores storytelling about the future by people exper…
Subject to Quarantine: A Narrative Analysis of Covid-19 Reporting in the Australian News Media
COVID-19 pandemic responses saw the large-scale return of quarantine, a once-common public health technology which, in modern society, had largely been replaced by infection control regimen combining immunisation, personal hygiene, and sanitation. While anchored in biomedicine, quarantine is a profoundly relational practice with immediate infringements upon personal liberties such as freedom of movement. The socio-cultural repercussions of target…
Bystander Intervention in Intimate Partner Violence: A Scoping Review of Experiences and Outcomes
Governments across the globe are increasingly implementing policies that encourage bystanders to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) by intervening in violent or potentially violent situations. While a wealth of research examines the most effective mechanisms for increasing potential bystanders’ feelings of self-efficacy and rates of intervention, there is significantly less evidence demonstrating how effective bystander intervention is at pr…
What is the Scope and Contribution of Lived Experience in Social Work? A Scoping Review
Lived experience, or people’s expertise and perspective derived from their involvement with events and interventions, represents an important resource for social work. Despite the appeal, lived experience is an ambiguous concept and the way social work knowledge is informed by lived experience is difficult to grasp. This article reports on a scoping review that maps the social work academic literature to examine how lived experience is used to in…
Homemaker or breadwinner: Labour force participation of Pakistani women
In recent years, Pakistan has seen an increase in policy efforts to encourage women's participation in the workforce.However, existing research suggests that these policies have not resulted in a proportional increase in women's labour force participation.This study employs an ecological systems approach to investigate the factors that impact the engagement of tertiary-educated Pakistani women in the labour market and their experiences of employm…
Developing a contextual understanding of empowerment through education: Narratives from highly educated women in Pakistan
Current international discourse foregrounds gender parity in education as a means of empowering women in societies with strong adherence to traditional gender norms, such as Pakistan. This discourse contends that women's access to higher education and subsequent employment enables them to identify and reject traditional cultural values and norms. However, some scholars criticise the gender parity approach as portraying a simplistic narrative that…
Social science as social action to address inequalities
In its most recent report, the Academy of the Social Sciences Australia (ASSA, 2021: 10) identified social inequality as a “grand challenge” for the social sciences, arguing that social scientists have a pivotal role to play in “understanding, addressing and guiding us towards a narrowing of a two‐tier society.” Nevertheless, the social sciences continue to be regularly positioned as “soft” and esoteric in relation to the natural sciences, while …
Seeing, Sharing and Supporting: Assertive Outreach as a Partial Solution to Rough Sleeping
Assertive outreach is becoming an increasingly salient feature of policy responses to homelessness—and particularly rough sleeping—with the aim of supporting people to access secure housing. Despite its demonstrated successes, existing research points to structural challenges practitioners face in navigating complex and fragmented service systems to provide people sleeping rough with a continuum of care. This study examines an Australian organisa…
Re(de)fining success: Tenancy issues, provider supports, and tenancy outcomes in an Australian Permanent Supportive Housing programme
Insecure housing—particularly for low-income groups—constitutes a critical and enduring social problem. While Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) initiatives show promise as a solution to mitigate this issue, research assessing their impact remains limited. This paper makes three contributions to the empirical PSH literature: it develops a novel framework to measure the success of PSH tenancy outcomes; it expands the evidence-base to consider the …
Moving, moving, moving: The Social Forces That Perpetuate Housing Instability for Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence
Housing scholars have demonstrated that intimate partner violence (IPV) is a key driver of housing instability. Contributing to existing housing literature that foregrounds the importance of material and psychological housing instability, our empirical research focuses on a novel programme providing supportive housing for women, the majority of whom are allocated housing to protect them from IPV. Our data includes in-depth interviews with the sup…
Staying safe, feeling welcome, being seen: How spatio‐temporal configurations affect relations of care at an inclusive health and wellness centre
BACKGROUND: People experiencing homelessness also experience poorer health and frequently attend acute care settings when primary health care would be better equipped to meet their needs. Existing scholarship identifies a complex mix of individual and structural-level factors affecting primary health care engagement driving this pattern of health services utilisation. We build on this existing knowledge, by bringing the spatio-temporal configurat…
Longing for a Forever Home: Ontological insecurity is collectively produced in fixed-term supportive housing for families
Increasingly unaffordable housing means that family homelessness represents an urgent issue for social policy and practice. Targeting families at risk of homelessness, Supportive Housing for Families (SHF) subsidizes leases and offers support aimed at sustaining tenancies and family unity. We explore how short-term funding cycles in an advanced welfare system impacts experiences with service delivery. Building on housing scholarship employing an …
Of Good Mothers and Violent Fathers: Negotiating Child Protection Interventions in Abusive Relationships
This article examines the efficacy of a supportive housing program aiming to provide mothers in violent relationships with the practical resources to minimize child protection intervention. Drawing on qualitative interviews with program mothers, child safety officers, and program practitioners, we explore the extent to which the program enabled mothers and children to live free from fathers' violence and disengage from the child protection system…
Like Father, Like Son: Empirical Insights into the Intergenerational Continuity of Masculinity Ideology
Scholarly work and public commentary point to the persistence of masculinity models characterized by a sense of entitlement, the exertion of dominance, and the justification of abusive behaviors. While there is abundant theoretical work on men and masculinities, fewer empirical studies have examined how young men develop their masculine ideals. In this study, we theorize the role of fathers’ adherence to masculinity ideology in influencing the de…
Media representations of social housing before and during Covid-19: The changing face of the socially excluded
Existing research demonstrates that the mainstream media produces and reproduces highly stigmatising representations of social housing. Such representations are largely underpinned by a moral underclass discourse, which blames individuals’ social exclusion on their own moral deficiencies. However, since the COVID-19 pandemic, social, economic, and political contexts have changed significantly, and problems that were once perceived to be the resul…
Understanding responses to homelessness during Covid-19: An examination of Australia
Following the outbreak of COVID-19, governments have spent unprecedented sums of money to accommodate people experiencing homelessness, often in underutilized hotels. This intervention contrasts with the policy stasis and “poverty of ambition” that characterized responses to rising homelessness over the past decade in countries such as Australia, the UK, the US, and much of Europe. This is a situation that has prevailed despite rigorous evidence …
Preventing Domestic Violence by Changing Australian Gender Relations: Issues and Considerations
In recent years Australian governments have significantly refocused domestic violence policies to prioritise primary prevention strategies. The objective of such strategies is to change how Australians perceive, acknowledge, and respond to domestic violence as a gender-based problem. Recognising the value of these efforts to address oppressive cultural practices, we draw attention to limitations inherent in shifting culture as a means to prevent …
Like Father, Like Son: Empirical Insights into the Intergenerational Continuity of Masculinity Ideology
Scholarly work and public commentary point to the persistence of masculinity models characterized by a sense of entitlement, the exertion of dominance, and the justification of abusive behaviors. While there is abundant theoretical work on men and masculinities, fewer empirical studies have examined how young men develop their masculine ideals. In this study, we theorize the role of fathers’ adherence to masculinity ideology in influencing the de…
The importance of discourse in homelessness policy for young people: An Australian perspective
Homelessness among young people remains an ongoing critical issue across the globe, despite numerous targeted policies attempting to address the issue. Research demonstrates that the way policies represent social problems influences policy solutions. Drawing on Australian policy, this research investigates how policy discourses construct homeless young people, and how these constructions influence the support services developed. The study involve…
What does it take to end homelessness? Tweaking or transforming systems
Moving, moving, moving: The Social Forces That Perpetuate Housing Instability for Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence
Housing scholars have demonstrated that intimate partner violence (IPV) is a key driver of housing instability. Contributing to existing housing literature that foregrounds the importance of material and psychological housing instability, our empirical research focuses on a novel programme providing supportive housing for women, the majority of whom are allocated housing to protect them from IPV. Our data includes in-depth interviews with the sup…
Media representations of social housing before and during Covid-19: The changing face of the socially excluded
Existing research demonstrates that the mainstream media produces and reproduces highly stigmatising representations of social housing. Such representations are largely underpinned by a moral underclass discourse, which blames individuals’ social exclusion on their own moral deficiencies. However, since the COVID-19 pandemic, social, economic, and political contexts have changed significantly, and problems that were once perceived to be the resul…
Climbing, stalling, falling: How people experiencing housing instability anticipate their futures
For people experiencing housing instability, considerable uncertainty and future risks coincide with a lack of affordable housing supply. Housing instability often entails movement across different forms of accommodation while facing the possibility of homelessness. Thinking with anticipation outlined by Adams et al. as a regime of knowledge espousing specific governing principles, this study explores storytelling about the future by people exper…
Longing for a Forever Home: Ontological insecurity is collectively produced in fixed-term supportive housing for families
Increasingly unaffordable housing means that family homelessness represents an urgent issue for social policy and practice. Targeting families at risk of homelessness, Supportive Housing for Families (SHF) subsidizes leases and offers support aimed at sustaining tenancies and family unity. We explore how short-term funding cycles in an advanced welfare system impacts experiences with service delivery. Building on housing scholarship employing an …
Of Good Mothers and Violent Fathers: Negotiating Child Protection Interventions in Abusive Relationships
This article examines the efficacy of a supportive housing program aiming to provide mothers in violent relationships with the practical resources to minimize child protection intervention. Drawing on qualitative interviews with program mothers, child safety officers, and program practitioners, we explore the extent to which the program enabled mothers and children to live free from fathers' violence and disengage from the child protection system…
Willing but Unable: How Resources Help Low-Income Mothers Care for their Children and Minimise Child Protection Interventions
Low-income mothers face disproportionately high risks of engaging with statutory child protection systems. Whilst this is often perceived as a result of poor or irresponsible parenting practices, an increasing body of scholarship foregrounds the role of structural issues—such as poverty and homelessness—that constrain mothers’ agency and impact their ability to care for their children. In this article, we examine Australia’s first permanent Suppo…
Social science as social action to address inequalities
In its most recent report, the Academy of the Social Sciences Australia (ASSA, 2021: 10) identified social inequality as a “grand challenge” for the social sciences, arguing that social scientists have a pivotal role to play in “understanding, addressing and guiding us towards a narrowing of a two‐tier society.” Nevertheless, the social sciences continue to be regularly positioned as “soft” and esoteric in relation to the natural sciences, while …
Seeing, Sharing and Supporting: Assertive Outreach as a Partial Solution to Rough Sleeping
Assertive outreach is becoming an increasingly salient feature of policy responses to homelessness—and particularly rough sleeping—with the aim of supporting people to access secure housing. Despite its demonstrated successes, existing research points to structural challenges practitioners face in navigating complex and fragmented service systems to provide people sleeping rough with a continuum of care. This study examines an Australian organisa…
Striving for Gender Equality: Representations of Gender in “Progressive” Domestic Violence Policy
International feminist scholarship highlights the benefits of approaching domestic violence policy through a gendered lens. Yet to be examined, however, is the extent to which explicitly gendered domestic violence policies may contain barriers that limit the potential benefits of a gendered approach. This qualitative research examines the assumptions embedded in explicitly gendered domestic violence policy in the Australian state of Queensland. F…
Subject to Quarantine: A Narrative Analysis of Covid-19 Reporting in the Australian News Media
COVID-19 pandemic responses saw the large-scale return of quarantine, a once-common public health technology which, in modern society, had largely been replaced by infection control regimen combining immunisation, personal hygiene, and sanitation. While anchored in biomedicine, quarantine is a profoundly relational practice with immediate infringements upon personal liberties such as freedom of movement. The socio-cultural repercussions of target…
Developing a contextual understanding of empowerment through education: Narratives from highly educated women in Pakistan
Current international discourse foregrounds gender parity in education as a means of empowering women in societies with strong adherence to traditional gender norms, such as Pakistan. This discourse contends that women's access to higher education and subsequent employment enables them to identify and reject traditional cultural values and norms. However, some scholars criticise the gender parity approach as portraying a simplistic narrative that…
Re(de)fining success: Tenancy issues, provider supports, and tenancy outcomes in an Australian Permanent Supportive Housing programme
Insecure housing—particularly for low-income groups—constitutes a critical and enduring social problem. While Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) initiatives show promise as a solution to mitigate this issue, research assessing their impact remains limited. This paper makes three contributions to the empirical PSH literature: it develops a novel framework to measure the success of PSH tenancy outcomes; it expands the evidence-base to consider the …
Fulfilling and desperately needed: Australian media representations of responses to homelessness
Homelessness is a significant social issue that continues to confront Australian society, despite burgeoning public and policy responses to the issue. Existing scholarship demonstrates the important role the media can play in shaping such responses by framing homelessness – and the people who experience it – in particular ways. However, to date there has been limited focus on how the media represents social responses to homelessness, or how such …
From aims to actions: A critical analysis of government intervention in cultural drivers of domestic and family violence
Addressing the cultural drivers of domestic and family violence (DFV) has become a core policy priority for governments across Australia. Over the last five years, the Queensland Government has taken a particularly strong stance on the issue through its Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Strategy 2016–2026 . This strategy identifies the Queensland Government's leading aim of changing the community culture that drives DFV. Although there is s…
The importance of discourse in homelessness policy for young people: An Australian perspective
Homelessness among young people remains an ongoing critical issue across the globe, despite numerous targeted policies attempting to address the issue. Research demonstrates that the way policies represent social problems influences policy solutions. Drawing on Australian policy, this research investigates how policy discourses construct homeless young people, and how these constructions influence the support services developed. The study involve…
Preventing Domestic Violence by Changing Australian Gender Relations: Issues and Considerations
In recent years Australian governments have significantly refocused domestic violence policies to prioritise primary prevention strategies. The objective of such strategies is to change how Australians perceive, acknowledge, and respond to domestic violence as a gender-based problem. Recognising the value of these efforts to address oppressive cultural practices, we draw attention to limitations inherent in shifting culture as a means to prevent …
Striving for Gender Equality: Representations of Gender in “Progressive” Domestic Violence Policy
International feminist scholarship highlights the benefits of approaching domestic violence policy through a gendered lens. Yet to be examined, however, is the extent to which explicitly gendered domestic violence policies may contain barriers that limit the potential benefits of a gendered approach. This qualitative research examines the assumptions embedded in explicitly gendered domestic violence policy in the Australian state of Queensland. F…
From aims to actions: A critical analysis of government intervention in cultural drivers of domestic and family violence
Addressing the cultural drivers of domestic and family violence (DFV) has become a core policy priority for governments across Australia. Over the last five years, the Queensland Government has taken a particularly strong stance on the issue through its Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Strategy 2016–2026 . This strategy identifies the Queensland Government's leading aim of changing the community culture that drives DFV. Although there is s…
Educational participation of primary school children with cancer from a Life Course perspective: A critical review of the literature
Governing Through (An Exclusive) Community: Limitations of State Conceptualisations of ‘the Community’ in Domestic Violence Policies
In response to growing evidence that cultural values and behaviours are key drivers of men’s use of domestic violence against women, states across the globe are increasingly implementing prevention policies aimed at mobilising cultural change within the community. Through an examination of one Australian state’s recent and significant domestic violence policy reform, we demonstrate that, although state-led efforts to change community culture hold…
Fulfilling and desperately needed: Australian media representations of responses to homelessness
Homelessness is a significant social issue that continues to confront Australian society, despite burgeoning public and policy responses to the issue. Existing scholarship demonstrates the important role the media can play in shaping such responses by framing homelessness – and the people who experience it – in particular ways. However, to date there has been limited focus on how the media represents social responses to homelessness, or how such …
Willing but Unable: How Resources Help Low-Income Mothers Care for their Children and Minimise Child Protection Interventions
Low-income mothers face disproportionately high risks of engaging with statutory child protection systems. Whilst this is often perceived as a result of poor or irresponsible parenting practices, an increasing body of scholarship foregrounds the role of structural issues—such as poverty and homelessness—that constrain mothers’ agency and impact their ability to care for their children. In this article, we examine Australia’s first permanent Suppo…
Staying safe, feeling welcome, being seen: How spatio‐temporal configurations affect relations of care at an inclusive health and wellness centre
BACKGROUND: People experiencing homelessness also experience poorer health and frequently attend acute care settings when primary health care would be better equipped to meet their needs. Existing scholarship identifies a complex mix of individual and structural-level factors affecting primary health care engagement driving this pattern of health services utilisation. We build on this existing knowledge, by bringing the spatio-temporal configurat…
Longing for a Forever Home: Ontological insecurity is collectively produced in fixed-term supportive housing for families
Increasingly unaffordable housing means that family homelessness represents an urgent issue for social policy and practice. Targeting families at risk of homelessness, Supportive Housing for Families (SHF) subsidizes leases and offers support aimed at sustaining tenancies and family unity. We explore how short-term funding cycles in an advanced welfare system impacts experiences with service delivery. Building on housing scholarship employing an …
Of Good Mothers and Violent Fathers: Negotiating Child Protection Interventions in Abusive Relationships
This article examines the efficacy of a supportive housing program aiming to provide mothers in violent relationships with the practical resources to minimize child protection intervention. Drawing on qualitative interviews with program mothers, child safety officers, and program practitioners, we explore the extent to which the program enabled mothers and children to live free from fathers' violence and disengage from the child protection system…
Like Father, Like Son: Empirical Insights into the Intergenerational Continuity of Masculinity Ideology
Scholarly work and public commentary point to the persistence of masculinity models characterized by a sense of entitlement, the exertion of dominance, and the justification of abusive behaviors. While there is abundant theoretical work on men and masculinities, fewer empirical studies have examined how young men develop their masculine ideals. In this study, we theorize the role of fathers’ adherence to masculinity ideology in influencing the de…
Media representations of social housing before and during Covid-19: The changing face of the socially excluded
Existing research demonstrates that the mainstream media produces and reproduces highly stigmatising representations of social housing. Such representations are largely underpinned by a moral underclass discourse, which blames individuals’ social exclusion on their own moral deficiencies. However, since the COVID-19 pandemic, social, economic, and political contexts have changed significantly, and problems that were once perceived to be the resul…
Understanding responses to homelessness during Covid-19: An examination of Australia
Following the outbreak of COVID-19, governments have spent unprecedented sums of money to accommodate people experiencing homelessness, often in underutilized hotels. This intervention contrasts with the policy stasis and “poverty of ambition” that characterized responses to rising homelessness over the past decade in countries such as Australia, the UK, the US, and much of Europe. This is a situation that has prevailed despite rigorous evidence …
Responding to Domestic and Family Violence: The Role of Non-Specialist Services and Implications for Social Work
Social workers play a critical role in responding to the needs of individuals impacted by domestic and family violence (DFV). Social work literature has long been devoted to understanding the functioning, accessibility and effectiveness of specialist DFV services. In contrast, much less is known about how non-specialist services can, and do, support victims of DFV. This study addresses this important gap by empirically examining the links between…
Recognition or Redistribution? How Mainstream Media Frames Charitable Responses to People Experiencing Poverty
Charitable responses to people experiencing poverty are often viewed as valuable community-led initiatives that address the support gaps created by a withdrawing welfare state. This perspective provides important insights into the culturally valorised nature of charity. The role of the mainstream media in cultivating and valorising charity, in contrast, remains relatively underexplored. Drawing on a framing analysis of Australian mainstream news …
Bystander Intervention in Intimate Partner Violence: A Scoping Review of Experiences and Outcomes
Governments across the globe are increasingly implementing policies that encourage bystanders to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) by intervening in violent or potentially violent situations. While a wealth of research examines the most effective mechanisms for increasing potential bystanders’ feelings of self-efficacy and rates of intervention, there is significantly less evidence demonstrating how effective bystander intervention is at pr…
What is the Scope and Contribution of Lived Experience in Social Work? A Scoping Review
Lived experience, or people’s expertise and perspective derived from their involvement with events and interventions, represents an important resource for social work. Despite the appeal, lived experience is an ambiguous concept and the way social work knowledge is informed by lived experience is difficult to grasp. This article reports on a scoping review that maps the social work academic literature to examine how lived experience is used to in…
Homemaker or breadwinner: Labour force participation of Pakistani women
In recent years, Pakistan has seen an increase in policy efforts to encourage women's participation in the workforce.However, existing research suggests that these policies have not resulted in a proportional increase in women's labour force participation.This study employs an ecological systems approach to investigate the factors that impact the engagement of tertiary-educated Pakistani women in the labour market and their experiences of employm…
Developing a contextual understanding of empowerment through education: Narratives from highly educated women in Pakistan
Current international discourse foregrounds gender parity in education as a means of empowering women in societies with strong adherence to traditional gender norms, such as Pakistan. This discourse contends that women's access to higher education and subsequent employment enables them to identify and reject traditional cultural values and norms. However, some scholars criticise the gender parity approach as portraying a simplistic narrative that…
Social science as social action to address inequalities
In its most recent report, the Academy of the Social Sciences Australia (ASSA, 2021: 10) identified social inequality as a “grand challenge” for the social sciences, arguing that social scientists have a pivotal role to play in “understanding, addressing and guiding us towards a narrowing of a two‐tier society.” Nevertheless, the social sciences continue to be regularly positioned as “soft” and esoteric in relation to the natural sciences, while …
Seeing, Sharing and Supporting: Assertive Outreach as a Partial Solution to Rough Sleeping
Assertive outreach is becoming an increasingly salient feature of policy responses to homelessness—and particularly rough sleeping—with the aim of supporting people to access secure housing. Despite its demonstrated successes, existing research points to structural challenges practitioners face in navigating complex and fragmented service systems to provide people sleeping rough with a continuum of care. This study examines an Australian organisa…
Re(de)fining success: Tenancy issues, provider supports, and tenancy outcomes in an Australian Permanent Supportive Housing programme
Insecure housing—particularly for low-income groups—constitutes a critical and enduring social problem. While Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) initiatives show promise as a solution to mitigate this issue, research assessing their impact remains limited. This paper makes three contributions to the empirical PSH literature: it develops a novel framework to measure the success of PSH tenancy outcomes; it expands the evidence-base to consider the …
Moving, moving, moving: The Social Forces That Perpetuate Housing Instability for Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence
Housing scholars have demonstrated that intimate partner violence (IPV) is a key driver of housing instability. Contributing to existing housing literature that foregrounds the importance of material and psychological housing instability, our empirical research focuses on a novel programme providing supportive housing for women, the majority of whom are allocated housing to protect them from IPV. Our data includes in-depth interviews with the sup…
“There’s not much I can do about it”: Violence and control in marginal(izing) spaces
People's experiences of homelessness are also experiences of violence and distress.Individuals experiencing homelessness are often forced into unregulated places like shelters or rough sleeping, where violence thrives.Due to shelter shortages, Australia is using backpacker hostels and boarding houses to accommodate people experiencing homelessness, but how violence manifests in these settings is not well understood.We draw on ethnographic researc…
Sociology (25 works) · Political science (24 works) · Psychology (24 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (21 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (12 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Domestic violence (10 works) · Law (10 works)