Research Publications

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Just Places

Lessons in Resilience
- 2026
- Centre for Just Places
The Lessons in Resilience project brought together a coalition of organisations across Melbourne’s west – including community services, health providers, local government, research institutions – to foster shared learning and strengthen organisational and community resilience. The project aimed to support resilience, just adaptation and health equity by developing a strong local evidence base for community service and health organisations to draw upon. Through its research and partnerships, the project deepened understanding of local climate and disaster risks, documented existing efforts across the region and produced recommendations that respond to local context and consolidate the practice wisdom and experiences of participating organisations.

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Ecological Justice Practices Guide
- 2025
At Jesuit Social Services, we recognise that people and the environment are deeply interconnected. Our Ecological Justice Practices guide highlights the intersection between environmental and social justice in everyday social work practice, and how small, practical steps can create meaningful change for the people we work with.

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Gender Justice

The Man Box: Re-examining what it means to be a man in Australia
- 2024
'The Man Box: Re-examining what it means to be a man in Australia' is a comprehensive study that focuses on the attitudes to manhood and the behaviours of Australian men aged 18 to 45. This second edition of The Man Box research finds 'Man Box' attitudes are alive and well in Australia today, with a significant minority of young men agreeing there are social pressures on them to behave or act a certain way because of their gender.

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Gender Justice

Identifying and understanding child sexual offending behaviours and attitudes among Australian men
- 2023
Produced in collaboration with the University of New South Wales, 'Identifying and understanding child sexual offending behaviours and attitudes among Australian men' is the first nationally representative research into the prevalence of child sexual offending behaviours and attitudes. The report sheds unprecedented light on sexually abusive behaviours and feelings among Australian men.

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Just Places

What works for place-based approaches? Research report and case studies
- 2022
- Centre for Just Places
Place-based approaches are an innovative way to address disadvantage and inequity, strengthen resilience to crises in place, and build thriving and resilient communities. In 2021-22, the Centre led a consortium of research partners examining literature, evidence and practice to understand what features enable the success of place-based approaches and how to best support them – information essential to improving the wellbeing of Victorian communities into the future.

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Just Places

Collaborative Action Plan for climate justice in Melbourne’s west
- 2022
- Centre for Just Places
This Collaborative Action Plan is the result of a year-long project to articulate a shared vision for climate justice in Melbourne’s west. The Plan builds on the diverse contributions of individuals and organisations already working at the interface of climate change, health and social justice in Melbourne’s west, and seeks to further understand the localised and systemic drivers of climate vulnerabilities for community health and service organisations in Melbourne’s west.

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Just Places

Dropping off the Edge – VicHealth report
- 2022
- Centre for Just Places
VicHealth commissioned the Centre to produce this report which deep dives into locational disadvantage in Victoria, with a greater focus on health and wellbeing inequities.

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Just Places

Climate Justice in Practice
- 2021
- Centre for Just Places
Addressing social inequity and climate resilience through place-based capacity building with community service organisations and local governments. The Centre presented this paper at the State of Australasian Cities Conference 2021.

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Just Places

Health, housing and ecological justice: Climate change and preventing homelessness deaths
- 2021
- Centre for Just Places
This paper explores the health risks to homeless communities posed by increasingly frequent extreme weather caused by climate change.

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Communal disadvantage

Dropping Off the Edge 2021
- 2021
- Andrew Yule, Lain Dare, Marita McCabe, Robert Tanton
Dropping off the Edge 2021 is the fifth instalment in a research series, clearly showing that complex and entrenched disadvantage is experienced by a small but persistent number of locations in each state and territory across Australia. As a society we cannot, and should not, turn away from the challenge of persistent and entrenched locational disadvantage, no matter how difficult it may be to solve the problem.
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