Associate ProfessorMargot Rawsthorne

Project Opportunities

Title: Community Development

Summary of opportunity:

Associate Professor Margot Rawsthorne has lectured in community development with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney since 2005. Her research has focused on the experience of inequality, particularly shaped by gender, location, housing and sexuality. Since 2017 she has collaborated with social work and social policy academics, including Professor Amanda Howard, on disaster preparedness through community-led action. Working alongside community members, organisations, emergency services and governments the Disaster Research Collective is building a strong evidence base to support practical shared responsibility.

She has a strong commitment to supporting the developing research capacity of the non-government sector. She has worked with many non-government and community groups on small research projects on local policy and practice issues. Margot is available to provide advice and support in the development of research projects. This community engagement aims to ensure the relevance and usefulness of academic research and scholarship.

Opportunity synopsis:

Research interests

Social structures, inequalities and social justice

• Social change

Social work and social policy

• Community services
• Civil society
• Social policy

Current projects

• Glebe Community Development: community based research project
• Building Vertical Communities
• Community development in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia (with National University of Mongolia)
• Getting Ahead program evaluation (with Bidwill Uniting)
• Community led disaster planning (with University of Newcastle, Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal and Office of Emergency Management)
• Community-led research: local issues, local solutions

----------Current Research Projects----------

• Glebe Community Development: community based research project
• Building Vertical Communities
• Community development in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia (with National University of Mongolia)
• Getting Ahead program evaluation (with Bidwill Uniting)
• Community led disaster planning (with University of Newcastle, Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal and Office of Emergency Management)
• Community-led research: local issues, local solutions.