Shopfront Monograph Series

The UTS Shopfront Monograph Series contains high impact research which is relevant to communities of interest or practice beyond the university. Also known as ‘the scholarship of engagement’, this is academically relevant work that simultaneously meets campus mission and goals as well as community needs. It is a scholarly agenda that integrates community issues, where community is broadly defined to include audiences external to the university that are part of a collaborative process to contribute to social justice and the public good.

A Student Monographs Collection is also available.

UTS Shopfront Monographs present original research which is of interest and relevance to community workers and organisations, policymakers and non-government organisations, service providers, advocates and activists. The style combines academic rigour and accessible communication. The Series is open to contributions across all disciplines and encourages contributions from Early Career Researchers and those producing interdisciplinary and/or collaborative research.

Current Monographs

Technology’s Refuge: The use of technology by asylum seekers and refugees

Linda Leung, 2009

This research by Linda Leung, with contributions by Cath Finney Lamb and Liz Emrys, investigated the use of Information communication technologies (ICT) by refugees during flight, displacement and in settlement. It examines the impact of Australia’s official policy of mandatory detention on how asylum seekers and refugees maintain links to diasporas and networks of support

Doing the Rights Thing. Approaches to Human Rights and Campaigning

Damien Spry, 2008

This report is about the current state of human rights and the advocacy campaigns to end various abuses to these rights. It challenges views that give authority exclusively to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and reductionist views that take the subsequently framed body of international human rights law as sacrosanct.