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  • Understanding iterative homelessness: The case of people with mental disorders. Final Report No 45 
    Robinson Catherine (Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, 2003)
    Full project publication list includes four separate works: Positioning Paper, This study aimed to improve our empirical and conceptual understanding of the precursors of homelessness among vulnerable groups. Such a study ...
  • Uneven development and the time/space economy 
    Cartier Carolyn (Routledge, 2013)
    After three decades of rapid industrialization, the problems of inequality in the PRC reflect the geographical trajectory of the planned reform economy. From south to north and coast to interior, the uneven geography of ...
  • Union Membership: Australia 
    Spooner Keri; Innes Colin; Mortimer Dennis (International Employment Relations Association ., 2001)
    Australian trade unions prospered for much of the last century but have suffered membership decline since the late 1970s. The growth of unions in the earlier part of the twentieth century has frequently been attributed ...
  • University-Community engagement: What does it mean? 
    Onyx Jennifer (UTS ePress, 2008)
    I want to reflect on the nature of Community-University engagement, its role, challenges and achievements. In this I start with `engagement¿ and what that might mean in the context of a university-based research centre. ...
  • Un-ordered organisation: exploring processes in an emergent social movement 
    Edwards Melissa (Australia and New Zealand Third Sector Research Incorporated Secretariat, 2006)
    This paper uses concepts from complexity theory to metaphorically frame an exploratory analysis of emergence within a social movement. In particular un-order, self-organisation and global - local linkages are used to ...
  • Unresolved Power for Feminist Researchers Employing memory-work 
    Small Jennifer; Cadman Kate; Friend Lorraine; Gannon Susanne; Ingleton Christine; Koutroulis Glenda; Mccormack Coralie; Mitchell Patricia; Onyx Jennifer; O'Regan Kerry; Rocco Sharn (Elsevier, 2007)
    The use of memory-work as a qualitative method in feminist social research is well established in Australia and New Zealand. Memory-work, though, still brings with it many theoretical and methodological dilemmas and issues. ...
  • Unsafe Haven: Hazaras in Afghanistan 
    Hekmat, Abdul Karim (2011-09-13)
    The Australin Government insists that many Afghan asylum seekers are not in need of protection, and can be forced to return. Most Afghans seeking refuge in Australia are from Hazara communities. What is it like for Hazaras ...
  • Urban structure and commuting in Australian cities 
    Glazebrook Garry; Rickwood Peter (Routledge, 2009)
    Studies looking at the relationship between urban form and travel behaviour have generally considered spatial information at coarse metropolitan or local government area scales. We analyse ABS census data at the Collection ...
  • An urban twist to politics in Ghana 
    Obeng-Odoom Franklin (Elsevier, 2010)
    This paper questions the preparedness of Ghanaian politicians for the 2010 urban `explosion¿ in Ghana. It reveals that urban policy in Ghana is overly focussed on curbing the symptoms of urban problems while leaving the ...
  • Using Storytelling to describe and analyze fieldwork experiences of knowledge generation 
    Anderson Theresa (Sean Kingston Publishing, 2010)
    The chapter describes the ethnographic approach taken to research about the way scholars use networked information systems. It discusses how practising informant-driven fieldwork contributed to mindfulness about my own ...
  • The vicissitudes of life: some effects of injuries on career development 
    Athanasou James (Blackwell Publishing, 2002)
  • Video research in health: Visibilising the effects of computerising clinical care 
    Iedema Roderick; Forsyth Rowena; Georgiou A; Braithwaite Jeffrey; Westbrook Johanna (Sage Publications Ltd., 2008)
  • Visibilising clinical work: Video ethnography in the contemporary hospital 
    Iedema Roderick; Long Debbie; Forsyth Rowena; Lee Bonsan (EContent Management Pty Ltd, 2006)
    This paper discusses the role of video-based research methods in social research. The paper situates these methods in the context of rising levels of visibility of professionals in government-funded organisations. The paper ...
  • Visitor study 1999-2000: northern NSW national parks 
    Griffin Anthony; Archer David (Sustainable Tourism CRC, 2005)
    This report presents the results from a series of visitor surveys conducted in a set of seven national parks in north-eastern New South Wales. The set of parks included Boonoo Boonoo, Bald Rock, Gibraltar Range, Washpool, ...
  • Vocabularies of Community 
    Yerbury Hilary (Oxford University Press, 2011)
    There have been many calls to conceptualize or reconceptualize key concepts that have been affected by the changes to ways of living, especially for young people in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Community ...
  • Voluntary associations and political participation 
    Passey Andrew; Lyons Mark (UNSW Press, 2005)
  • Volunteer sustainability in a sport context: observations from grassroots participation through to mega-events 
    Schulenkorf, Nico; Edwards, Deborah; Darcy, Simon (2012-05-07)
    Volunteers are the lifeblood of sporting organizations in Australia and globally. However, research has shown that there are differences between everyday volunteers for sporting organizations and volunteers at major sport ...
  • Volunteer Tourism: The Interests and motivations of grey nomads 
    Leonard Rosemary; Onyx Jennifer (Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies, 2009)
    Volunteer tourism is increasingly being recognized as a distinct phenomenon which needs to draw on an understanding of both tourism and volunteer motivations.
  • The War at Home: Internment and Persecution of Enemy Aliens in Australia during WWI 
    Fischer, Gerhard (UTS Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre, 2009-09-10)
    During WWI, the Australian Government conducted a vigorous campaign against so-called enemy aliens, mainly members of the German Australian community. Since it was impractical to intern all of the estimated 100,000 residents ...
  • 'Warm hearted, genuine, compassionate seeks...' An Exploration of Recruitment Advertising for Managers in Australian Nonprofit Social Services 
    Green Jennifer; Dalton Bronwen (International Employment Relations Association, 2007)
    Recruitment practices play a key role in organisational success (Cable & Judge, 1996). Designing an effective recruitment advertisement is critical in establishing the first link to appropriate potential employees ...