projects undertaken by the Centre for People, Organisation and Work:

Keeping sane in the face of intense work demands: How child protection workers navigate their professional and personal lives
Evidence suggests care workers often confront work–life balance challenges. The nature of these challenges, however, vary depending upon the type of care work and the country they are located in. Our paper specifically considers how child protection (CP) workers in Australia navigate their professional and personal lives. CP workers remain an understudied minority in research on allied health workers.

Queensland Mental Health Lived Experience Workforce Framework
A toolkit for embedding people with experience of mental health challenges into public and private workplaces and non-government organisations.

Developing a scale of work-related wellbeing at work for adult social care staff
Sara Charlesworth Project Duration: 2019 – current Sara Charlesworth is on the Advisory group of a new project being undertaken at the Personal Social Services

Imagining Age-Friendly “Communities within Communities”: International Promising Practices
Sara Charlesworth Grants and funding: Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Project Duration: 2019 – current Sara Charlesworth is an investigator on this Canadian

Scoping Study on Gender-Based Violence in Individualised Support & Care Services in Victoria
Sara Charlesworth, Fiona Macdonald Grants and funding: Worksafe Victoria Project Duration: 2020 – current Sara Charlesworth and Fiona Macdonald, together with the assistance of Jane

Decent Work Good Care: International approaches to aged care
This project explores the links between job quality and care quality in the context of formal aged care provision in the distinct liberal welfare states

Data-driven Regional Development – Gippsland
A strategic project designed to create data-guided baselines to inform future regional development strategies in Gippsland Project Duration: 16 September 2018 – 13 November 2018 The

Evaluating Redress Mechanisms Governing the Human Rights Practices of Transnational Business: Lessons for Institutional Design and Operation
Evaluating Redress Mechanisms Governing the Human Rights Practices of Transnational Business: Lessons for Institutional Design and Operation Researching the protection of vulnerable workers and communities’

Unacceptable Forms of Work: Gender-Based Violence
Unacceptable Forms of Work: Gender-Based Violence The research focuses on gender-based violence in home care as an ‘unacceptable form of work’ and locates it with

The Glass Ceiling For Women: Assessing the State of Gender Equality and Career Progression in the Health Industry
The Glass Ceiling For Women: Assessing the State of Gender Equality and Career Progression in the Health Industry Exploration of gender equality between women and