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Recovering from Doing Research as a Survivor-Researcher
In this paper I explore the research process I undertook to recover from research. For three years from 2013 I was involved in a research project exploring the history of foster care in Australia. At the end I was exhausted and suffering trauma symptoms I initially attributed to the difficulties of juggling a major research project while teaching and undertaking key administrative tasks. Reluctance to write up the research findings, however, made me reconsider this attribution and at the end of 2016 I set out to make sense of what had happened to make me feel so bad while undertaking a research project I was thrilled to be involved with. Recovery came through identifying as a survivor-researcher, exploring the literature on trauma and recovery from trauma, and thinking through a “wish list” of protocols and self-care activities I should have put in place earlier. I conclude the paper with recommendations for ways by which survivor-researchers can look after themselves, and ways for others to support survivor-researchers.
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Young People Transitioning from Out-of-home Care and Access to Higher Education: A Critical Review of the Literature
Critically examines existing Australian and international research on access of care leavers to higher education - a group of pre-care, in-care, transition from care and post-care factors are identified as either hindering or assisting care leavers to maximise their educational opportunities - recommends some policy and practice reforms to enhance opportunities for Australian care leavers to participate in and complete higher education.
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Blood Doesn't Define Evotypical Families: Eleanor Spence's Stories of Informal and Formal Foster Care in Australia
Close family bonds among individuals who are not blood-related are explored here in three works of Australian award-winning children's author Eleanor Spence. Although written in 1967, 1969, and 1982, Spence created narratives with authentic Australian contexts around what is currently acknowledged as evotypical families. These books support the education of Australian young people in developing progressive views of family formation and realizing the significance of family bonds that go beyond blood relatives.
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Providing Care for Children: How Service Providers Define and Apply “Care” in Contemporary South Australia
While a wide array of service providers and academic scholars apply the use of “care” in their work, the concept of “care” itself remains largely undefined. This has widespread implications for applied work with children and young people (CYP), particularly since institutions such as schools and non-governmental organisations are increasingly being expected to care for or about children. In this paper, we use thematic analysis to report on interviews with representatives from four service providers and organisations responsible for the care of children. In our analysis, we explore both how care is defined by these organisations, and the implications for practice when working with CYP.
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Young people transitioning from out-of-home care and access to higher education: A critical review of the literature
Young people transitioning from out-of-home care are known to have poor educational outcomes compared to their non-care peers. Yet little is known about the experiences or needs of the small numbers of Australian care leavers who enter higher education. This article critically examines existing Australian and international research on the access of care leavers to higher education. A group of pre-care, in-care, transition from care and post-care factors are identified as either hindering or assisting care leavers to maximise their educational opportunities. Some specific policy and practice reforms are recommended to enhance opportunities for Australian care leavers to participate in and complete higher education.
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'Bending and Morphing': The Department of Women's Studies at the University of Adelaide Continues Past its Twenty Year Anniversary
During an examination of the impact of global neo-liberal capitalism on institutionalized feminism in South Africa, Gouws (2012) notes that political or ideological imperatives to Women's/Gender Studies often compete with pertinent economic concerns. [...]academics committed to feminist activism and academic teaching are forced to compromise these priorities in order to comply with a market driven agenda. Many academics in American, British and Australian tertiary institutions began to respond to the absence of women in the curriculum by including women in courses - \"adding the missing\" (O'Barr, 1989: 5) - particularly within the Humanities and Social Sciences.\\n Currently, women outnumber men as undergraduate students in universities, \"although they still remain under-represented in higher degree research programs and in some non-traditional areas such as engineering and information technology\" (Bradley et al 2008).
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