Marie Connolly
Biographic Data
| ID | 4489300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marie Connolly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Connolly |
| SIGNATURE | CONNOLLY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9212-9546 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Great Mobility Puzzle Resolved
Le Canada s'est toujours révélé être plus mobile sur le plan socioéconomique que les États-Unis, mais la plus forte pente de sa relation rang-rang en dessous du 20 e centile de la distribution des revenus parentaux reste jusqu’à présent inexpliquée. Dans cette étude, nous utilisons le couplage récent entre la Base de données sur la mobilité intergénérationnelle du revenu (BDMIR) et les données du recensement pour résoudre cette énigme. Nous montr…
Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries
Fais comme ta sœur
Malgré de vastes progrès en matière de scolarisation au cours des dernières décennies, le Québec continue de faire piètre figure en matière de décrochage scolaire, particulièrement chez les garçons. En 2021, 234 000 hommes n’avaient pas de diplôme d’études secondaires. Chez les 25 à 34 ans, 12 % n’avaient aucun diplôme ni aucune qualification, soit la pire performance de toutes les provinces canadiennes. Cette sous-scolarisation des garçons repré…
Child Penalties in Canada
Le fait d’avoir des enfants a un impact considérable sur les résultats des femmes sur le marché du travail, mais pas sur ceux des hommes. Les effets différentiels du parentage selon le sexe, ce qu’on appelle la pénalité liée aux enfants ou la pénalité parentale, sont désormais documentés pour de nombreux pays. Dans cet article, nous exploitons les données de l’Étude longitudinale et internationale des adultes pour estimer les pénalités liées aux …
Nonlinear Class Size Effects on Cognitive and Noncognitive Development of Young Children
We estimate the nonlinear impact of class size on student achievement by exploiting regulations that cap class size at 20 students per class in kindergarten. Based on student-level information from a previously unexploited and unique large-scale census survey of kindergarten students, this study provides clear evidence of the nonlinearity of class size effects on development measures. While the effects are largest on cognitive development, class …
Increasing rigor and reducing bias in qualitative research
Qualitative research methods have traditionally been criticised for lacking rigor, and impressionistic and biased results. Subsequently, as qualitative methods have been increasingly used in social work inquiry, efforts to address these criticisms have also increased. Applied thematic analysis provides structure and integrates reflexivity in qualitative research using textual data. In this article, we describe how applied thematic analysis was op…
Permanent Care Orders in Victoria
Seeking permanency for children is a central concern of Western child protection and out-of-home care systems, with approaches differing between and within countries. Historically, Australia has not prioritised adoption as a permanency pathway. In the state of Victoria there has been a preference for the use of Permanent Care Orders (PCOs), which have been positioned highly in the permanency hierarchy. Despite their significance, little research …
More Nuanced Universal Services for New Parents
Universal services focus on prevention and providing the support to parents that will help them meet the challenges of parenthood and deal with problems before they become entrenched. Many countries now have good universal services available for new families, and significant advances have been made in recent years to recognize the importance of the early years in the optimal development of the child. This article is based on a qualitative study o…
We Live and Breathe Through Culture”
Indigenous Australian children are overrepresented in the out-of-home care (OOHC) system, with numbers and rates on an upward trajectory. There is now serious concern that this overrepresentation is creating a second Stolen Generations in Australia, noted within policy campaigns such as Family Matters—Kids Safe in Culture, not in Care, and Grandmothers Against Removals. While placement in OOHC is designed to protect children’s long-term safety an…
A Collaborative Practice Framework for Child Protection and Specialist Domestic and Family Violence Services
Practice frameworks bridge the divide between research and practice. This paper shows how the translation of research into policy and practice led to the development of a practice framework to foster greater collaboration between child protection (CP) and specialist domestic and family violence (DFV) services. The framework supports safety for adult and child victims and raises the standard of accountability for fathers who use violence. In resea…
Informing Permanent Care Discourses
The policy, legal and service configuration of a child and family welfare system reflects the historically predominant ideological perspectives relating to children, families, community and state. Examination of parliamentary debates provides a window on the discourses relating to policy and legislative change in a jurisdiction. This article presents a document analysis of parliamentary debates in the Australian state of Victoria using Applied Th…
A Crisis of Identity
Social work is a discipline innately engaged in and influenced by the political and social context in which it is practised. The disciplinary response to the constancy of social change, however, has demonstrated a profession continually dogged by issues of identity, legitimacy and direction. This paper compares the debates of the UK and USA as examples of very differing national responses, and suggest they are clear examples of how national respo…
A Kinship Care Practice Framework
In recent years, kinship care has become a major contributor to the delivery of out-of-home care services in most Western jurisdictions. Over time, statutory kinship care has been modelled on the more established foster-care system. Yet the particular nature of kinship care differs from stranger care arrangements in important ways. This often results in kinship carers and their children being disadvantaged and poorly responded to within foster-ca…
The relevance of Global Standards to social work education in Australasia
Underpinned by the Global Standards published for the promotion of quality social work education, and as a benchmark for social work education at national levels, a qualitative content analysis is conducted to explore the alignment of national standards of the Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia regulatory bodies with the Global Standards. A number of equity issues are identified: service users and student participation, student representativeness…
Who Is Watching Whom? Surveillance in Australian Social Work Supervision
Supervisors of social work practice have long grappled with professional and disciplinary expectations and the competing daily organisational demands of a transformed neo-liberal human service environment. This article reports on a study that investigated the practice of supervision in the Australian context and the influences, both managerial and professional, that inform supervision practice. Drawing upon data from an online survey and a series…
Supporting quality supervision
This article reports on the findings of a mixed-method study exploring the experiences of supervision within Australian social work. It looks particularly at the ways in which organisational cultures support supervision as a mechanism of practice improvement. The research suggests the need to better understand performance within the practice and supervision sphere, and create ways in which workers can be acknowledged to develop their skills in a …
Social Work
Social Work: From Theory to Practice uses an integrated approach to explore a variety of social theories through social work's unique interpretative lens. Systems, psychodynamic and person-centred theories, and cognitive-behavioural, narrative and strengths-based practices are specifically addressed, and students are shown how to apply these in human service settings. These theories are supported by case studies written by experienced practitione…
Social Work
Private and public voices
This article examines the use of family group conferencing in child protection and considers its ability to privilege the voice of children and families who reach the attention of statutory child protection services. The family group conference (FGC) is a process of family decision-making in child protection, originally developed in Aotearoa New Zealand, and now practised in many countries including the UK. Examining the literature and research r…
Another Pandora's box? Some pros and cons of predictive risk modeling
Focus on stability
This article reports on a sample of young New Zealand children under two years of age entering care in 2005 ( n = 228) and follows their progress over a five-year period. The study, the first of its kind in New Zealand, used a clinical data mining method to focus particularly on issues of stability, continuity and permanency. In these areas the research findings were generally positive for this cohort of children. Most children had only one or tw…
Do higher child care subsidies improve parental well-being? Evidence from Quebec's family policies
Developing Evaluation Cultures in Human Service Organisations
Evaluation is currently receiving significant attention in the not-for-profit sector in Australia as a changing external environment augments its role in human service organisations. These bodies typically make use of three models to carry out evaluation activities to meet funding and organisational requirements: the use of external evaluators to carry out specific projects; creating internal evaluation functions to manage evaluation needs indepe…
The safety of young children in care
When children are looked after in public care it is critical that they remain free from abuse. Understanding the safety of such children is important both to the child’s well-being and to the continued improvement of the care system. This article explores the research relating to the safety of young children in care and reports on a five-year follow-up study of 228 New Zealand children who entered care when under two years of age in 2005. Based o…
Beyond the risk paradigm
We Live and Breathe Through Culture”
Indigenous Australian children are overrepresented in the out-of-home care (OOHC) system, with numbers and rates on an upward trajectory. There is now serious concern that this overrepresentation is creating a second Stolen Generations in Australia, noted within policy campaigns such as Family Matters—Kids Safe in Culture, not in Care, and Grandmothers Against Removals. While placement in OOHC is designed to protect children’s long-term safety an…
Post-migration investments in education and job search
Developing Evaluation Cultures in Human Service Organisations
Evaluation is currently receiving significant attention in the not-for-profit sector in Australia as a changing external environment augments its role in human service organisations. These bodies typically make use of three models to carry out evaluation activities to meet funding and organisational requirements: the use of external evaluators to carry out specific projects; creating internal evaluation functions to manage evaluation needs indepe…
Private and public voices
This article examines the use of family group conferencing in child protection and considers its ability to privilege the voice of children and families who reach the attention of statutory child protection services. The family group conference (FGC) is a process of family decision-making in child protection, originally developed in Aotearoa New Zealand, and now practised in many countries including the UK. Examining the literature and research r…
A Crisis of Identity
Social work is a discipline innately engaged in and influenced by the political and social context in which it is practised. The disciplinary response to the constancy of social change, however, has demonstrated a profession continually dogged by issues of identity, legitimacy and direction. This paper compares the debates of the UK and USA as examples of very differing national responses, and suggest they are clear examples of how national respo…
The Worldwide Market for Skilled Migrants
The purpose of this article is to...[analyze] the relative importance of internal and external factors on the demand for skilled immigration visas to Australia. Our objectives are to determine how the size of the pool of potential migrants is influenced by factors such as relative economic conditions and U.S. and Canadian immigration policies and to determine what implications these factors have on the relative quality (skill level) of potential …
A Collaborative Practice Framework for Child Protection and Specialist Domestic and Family Violence Services
Practice frameworks bridge the divide between research and practice. This paper shows how the translation of research into policy and practice led to the development of a practice framework to foster greater collaboration between child protection (CP) and specialist domestic and family violence (DFV) services. The framework supports safety for adult and child victims and raises the standard of accountability for fathers who use violence. In resea…
Another Pandora's box? Some pros and cons of predictive risk modeling
Who Is Watching Whom? Surveillance in Australian Social Work Supervision
Supervisors of social work practice have long grappled with professional and disciplinary expectations and the competing daily organisational demands of a transformed neo-liberal human service environment. This article reports on a study that investigated the practice of supervision in the Australian context and the influences, both managerial and professional, that inform supervision practice. Drawing upon data from an online survey and a series…
Permanent Care Orders in Victoria
Seeking permanency for children is a central concern of Western child protection and out-of-home care systems, with approaches differing between and within countries. Historically, Australia has not prioritised adoption as a permanency pathway. In the state of Victoria there has been a preference for the use of Permanent Care Orders (PCOs), which have been positioned highly in the permanency hierarchy. Despite their significance, little research …
The relevance of Global Standards to social work education in Australasia
Underpinned by the Global Standards published for the promotion of quality social work education, and as a benchmark for social work education at national levels, a qualitative content analysis is conducted to explore the alignment of national standards of the Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia regulatory bodies with the Global Standards. A number of equity issues are identified: service users and student participation, student representativeness…
Supporting quality supervision
This article reports on the findings of a mixed-method study exploring the experiences of supervision within Australian social work. It looks particularly at the ways in which organisational cultures support supervision as a mechanism of practice improvement. The research suggests the need to better understand performance within the practice and supervision sphere, and create ways in which workers can be acknowledged to develop their skills in a …
Child Penalties in Canada
Le fait d’avoir des enfants a un impact considérable sur les résultats des femmes sur le marché du travail, mais pas sur ceux des hommes. Les effets différentiels du parentage selon le sexe, ce qu’on appelle la pénalité liée aux enfants ou la pénalité parentale, sont désormais documentés pour de nombreux pays. Dans cet article, nous exploitons les données de l’Étude longitudinale et internationale des adultes pour estimer les pénalités liées aux …
The Worldwide Market for Skilled Migrants
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relative importance of internal and external factors on the demand for skilled immigration visas to Australia
A Kinship Care Practice Framework
In recent years, kinship care has become a major contributor to the delivery of out-of-home care services in most Western jurisdictions. Over time, statutory kinship care has been modelled on the more established foster-care system. Yet the particular nature of kinship care differs from stranger care arrangements in important ways. This often results in kinship carers and their children being disadvantaged and poorly responded to within foster-ca…
A Family Affair
Objective . This research examines the role of the family in the immigrant settlement process by assessing the labor supply behavior of immigrant spouses. Methods . We make use of a unique data set—the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA), which provides detailed demographic, human capital, and labor market information for both principal applicants and their spouses. Results . Family circumstances such as the presence of young ch…
Family Life on the Dole
This paper explores the research findings of a study, completed in 1990, which looked into the effects of unemployment on rural New Zealand families. A paradigm of grounded theory development was used to illuminate the experiences of 10 couples who had been affected by unemployment. The study illustrates the negative effects of unemployment upon individuals and families. Generally, the findings are consistent with previous studies which point to …
Services for juvenile sex offenders
Sexual offending by adolescent perpetrators is an area of concern that has received increased clinical attention in recent years. There has been a significant increase in the number of treatment programs for juvenile sex offenders in North America, and similar developments are occurring in the United Kingdom. In the South Pacific, the problem of adolescent offenders is also becoming a challenge for New Zealand and Australian service providers. Wh…
Social workers' attributions for sexual offending
In this study, the reasons why qualified social workers and social work students think men sexually offend against children are examined. Participants were asked to give reasons for these behaviours and to rate them using Benson's Attributional Scale across four dimensions; stability, internality, controllability and globality. The results suggested that the students saw the reasons for sexual abuse as significantly less controllable than did the…
The Worldwide Market for Skilled Migrants
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relative importance of internal and external factors on the demand for skilled immigration visas to Australia
The Worldwide Market for Skilled Migrants
The purpose of this article is to...[analyze] the relative importance of internal and external factors on the demand for skilled immigration visas to Australia. Our objectives are to determine how the size of the pool of potential migrants is influenced by factors such as relative economic conditions and U.S. and Canadian immigration policies and to determine what implications these factors have on the relative quality (skill level) of potential …
A Family Affair
Objective . This research examines the role of the family in the immigrant settlement process by assessing the labor supply behavior of immigrant spouses. Methods . We make use of a unique data set—the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA), which provides detailed demographic, human capital, and labor market information for both principal applicants and their spouses. Results . Family circumstances such as the presence of young ch…
Post-migration investments in education and job search
Navigating human rights across the life course
Issues related to human rights have increasingly moved to the forefront of professional concern in recent years. Despite this, there has been minimal attention paid to exploring how changing human needs across the lifespan impact upon human rights. This paper takes a broad look at human rights issues that occur across the life course, and uses examples of life course transitions to illuminate issues related to moral rights and human rights. The e…
Ode to Social Work
Dr Marie Connolly is a leading New Zealand social work practitioner and academic, as well as being a member of the Australian Social Work Editorial Board. She was guest speaker in 2008 at the annua
Beyond the risk paradigm
Do higher child care subsidies improve parental well-being? Evidence from Quebec's family policies
Developing Evaluation Cultures in Human Service Organisations
Evaluation is currently receiving significant attention in the not-for-profit sector in Australia as a changing external environment augments its role in human service organisations. These bodies typically make use of three models to carry out evaluation activities to meet funding and organisational requirements: the use of external evaluators to carry out specific projects; creating internal evaluation functions to manage evaluation needs indepe…
The safety of young children in care
When children are looked after in public care it is critical that they remain free from abuse. Understanding the safety of such children is important both to the child’s well-being and to the continued improvement of the care system. This article explores the research relating to the safety of young children in care and reports on a five-year follow-up study of 228 New Zealand children who entered care when under two years of age in 2005. Based o…
Private and public voices
This article examines the use of family group conferencing in child protection and considers its ability to privilege the voice of children and families who reach the attention of statutory child protection services. The family group conference (FGC) is a process of family decision-making in child protection, originally developed in Aotearoa New Zealand, and now practised in many countries including the UK. Examining the literature and research r…
Another Pandora's box? Some pros and cons of predictive risk modeling
Focus on stability
This article reports on a sample of young New Zealand children under two years of age entering care in 2005 ( n = 228) and follows their progress over a five-year period. The study, the first of its kind in New Zealand, used a clinical data mining method to focus particularly on issues of stability, continuity and permanency. In these areas the research findings were generally positive for this cohort of children. Most children had only one or tw…
Social Work
Social Work: From Theory to Practice uses an integrated approach to explore a variety of social theories through social work's unique interpretative lens. Systems, psychodynamic and person-centred theories, and cognitive-behavioural, narrative and strengths-based practices are specifically addressed, and students are shown how to apply these in human service settings. These theories are supported by case studies written by experienced practitione…
Social Work
Who Is Watching Whom? Surveillance in Australian Social Work Supervision
Supervisors of social work practice have long grappled with professional and disciplinary expectations and the competing daily organisational demands of a transformed neo-liberal human service environment. This article reports on a study that investigated the practice of supervision in the Australian context and the influences, both managerial and professional, that inform supervision practice. Drawing upon data from an online survey and a series…
Supporting quality supervision
This article reports on the findings of a mixed-method study exploring the experiences of supervision within Australian social work. It looks particularly at the ways in which organisational cultures support supervision as a mechanism of practice improvement. The research suggests the need to better understand performance within the practice and supervision sphere, and create ways in which workers can be acknowledged to develop their skills in a …
A Crisis of Identity
Social work is a discipline innately engaged in and influenced by the political and social context in which it is practised. The disciplinary response to the constancy of social change, however, has demonstrated a profession continually dogged by issues of identity, legitimacy and direction. This paper compares the debates of the UK and USA as examples of very differing national responses, and suggest they are clear examples of how national respo…
A Kinship Care Practice Framework
In recent years, kinship care has become a major contributor to the delivery of out-of-home care services in most Western jurisdictions. Over time, statutory kinship care has been modelled on the more established foster-care system. Yet the particular nature of kinship care differs from stranger care arrangements in important ways. This often results in kinship carers and their children being disadvantaged and poorly responded to within foster-ca…
The relevance of Global Standards to social work education in Australasia
Underpinned by the Global Standards published for the promotion of quality social work education, and as a benchmark for social work education at national levels, a qualitative content analysis is conducted to explore the alignment of national standards of the Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia regulatory bodies with the Global Standards. A number of equity issues are identified: service users and student participation, student representativeness…
We Live and Breathe Through Culture”
Indigenous Australian children are overrepresented in the out-of-home care (OOHC) system, with numbers and rates on an upward trajectory. There is now serious concern that this overrepresentation is creating a second Stolen Generations in Australia, noted within policy campaigns such as Family Matters—Kids Safe in Culture, not in Care, and Grandmothers Against Removals. While placement in OOHC is designed to protect children’s long-term safety an…
A Collaborative Practice Framework for Child Protection and Specialist Domestic and Family Violence Services
Practice frameworks bridge the divide between research and practice. This paper shows how the translation of research into policy and practice led to the development of a practice framework to foster greater collaboration between child protection (CP) and specialist domestic and family violence (DFV) services. The framework supports safety for adult and child victims and raises the standard of accountability for fathers who use violence. In resea…
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Law (12 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (8 works) · Demographic economics (8 works)