ProfessorJioji Ravulo

Previous research projects across the community:

• Kava Research Project with the Australian Department of Health in partnership with the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (UNSW) (2024)
• Pasifika Program Review with Youth Justice NSW, Department of Justice and Communities NSW (2024)
• Exploring the lived experience of sexual and gender diverse communities across the Pacific in partnership with the Pacific Sexual and Gender Diversity Network (PSGDN). (2024)

• RSPCA NSW Community Programs - Social Return on Investment; Investigator (2020 - 2021).
• Mental Health Talanoa (MHT): Understanding the prevalence of mental illnesses, its impact, and help seeking behaviour amongst Pacific communities in Australia; Chief Investigator (2019 - 2020).
• Assessing the needs of local young people to help guide alcohol and drug prevention and harm reduction strategies; Investigator (2018 - 2019).
• Drug and Alcohol (D&A) health perspectives of Middle Eastern and Burmese young people in the Illawarra; Chief Investigator (2018 - 2019).
• NUW Alliance Community Hub (NUWACH); Chief Investigator (2018 - 2019).
• Individual-based measure of socio-economic disadvantage; Investigator (2017 - 2018).
• Social Return on Investment - Widening Participation Evaluation; Chief Investigator (2017 - 2018).
• Co-funded PhD: Developing Good Practice in Community Development with Children, Youth and Families; Principal Supervisor & Grant reciepient (2017).
• Pacific Islands Field Education (PIFE); Chief Investigator & Project Manager (2012 - 2017).
• Pasifika Achievement To Higher Education; Chief Investigator & Project Manager (2012 - 2016).
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Young Offenders: accessing cultural collections to promote cultural identity; Investigator (2015).
• PATHE@RUPA; Chief Investigator & Project Manager (2014 - 2015).
• NRL Graduates of League; Academic Head (2013 - 2015).