Equity & Diversity Research Projects

Dr Sam Arnold

The Valued Contribution Project

With funding from the Endeavour Foundation, The Valued Contribution Project seeks to recognise, measure and promote the value of living contributing lives for people with and without disability. Some of the early work of the project including the Contribution gallery and a feature on channel 9 news is linked below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i4a4Evz2fM
and
https://tinyurl.com/ValuedContribution

Gilbert, E. (CI), Duffy, S. (Investigator) & Ewald, A. (Investigator)

Family Friendly Workplaces: Social Impact Assessment Parents and Carers At Work
1/07/24 → 15/07/24

A/P Emilee Gilbert, Dr Sarah Duffy, Dr Michelle O'Shea and Alison Pullen

Improving the Re-entry after Parental Leave

With funding from the Research Theme Program, this project and add critical research insights into
reform options to support women to enter, re-enter, remain engaged and succeed in the workforce.

Dr Tim Marsh

Trust in Public Institutions Study

Conducted conjunction with a team of 3 honours students, this project seeks to identify the personal,
moral and political factors that predict trust and perceived value alignment with public institutions in Australia.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36713811/

Dr Tim Marsh

Purity & Self-Control Study

Conducted conjunction with a team of 3 honours students, this experimental project explores the moral
purity  judgments that often contribute to stigmatising attitudes towards marginalised groups, and seeks
to unpack the role of virtue-judgments based in perceived self-control in producing and sustaining these attitudes.

Dr Mac Mingon

Psychology of Home Project

In collaboration with a team of 6 honours students, this project explores the psychological aspects of
home and housing amoung university students and older adults. It is focused on understanding well-being,
stress, and perceptions of home in the context of the current housing crisis.

Dr Alina Ewald

Flexible Working

Conducted with a team of 4 Honour's students and  co-supervised with Associate Professor Steve Cumming,
this qualitative project explores how employees experience flexible working in the post-COVID world, and
how flexible working is constructed within the media.

Dr Sarah Duffy

Fathers experiences managing work and parenting

Conducted in collaboration with The Fatherhood Project, Relationships Australia Victoria & Dads& we are
collecting Fathers experiences of the work life juggle

A/P Emilee Gilbert, Dr Sarah Duffy, Dr Tania Perich with Gidget Foundation

Mothering with Complex Developmental Trauma: A qualitative examination of parenting through vulnerability and resilience leading to a co-designed supportive intervention.

In this project, we seek to examine how women with a history of complex developmental trauma
navigate mothering, looking specifically at the meanings attached to mothering, the challenges and
rewards associated with mothering, and experiences of support seeking across mothers. To attend
to a critical methodological gap in existing literature, we adopt a qualitative research design, and
a matricentric feminist methodology which privileges mother’s voices.

Aastha Ahuja

Understanding the experience of miscarriage for women using Body Mapping

Conducting PhD research in Understanding the experience of miscarriage for women using Body Mapping.
This is a cross cultural study to understand how individualistic and collectivist cultures shape women's
experience of support, healthcare, maternal identity and embodiment during miscarriage. It uses an
art based tool of interviewing -  body mapping to understand the embodied experience of loss for women.

Khadija Malik

Exploring women's recurrent miscarriage experience and its impact on their self and identity

Under the supervision of Associate Professor Emilee, Dr Renu and Dr sarah, this PhD research project aims
to explore women's experience of recurrent miscarriage and the role of healthcare professionals in shaping
their perceptions of these losses within Pakistan's sociocultural context. Utilizing a feminist post-structuralist
approach, this research will build on concepts such as biographical disruption, reproductive identity, and
post-traumatic growth.