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ProfessorRuth Phillips

Professor of Social Policy

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Orcid identifier0000-0003-0711-8389 (opens in a new tab)⁠
  • Professor of Social Policy
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTs

Social structures, inequalities and social justice

  • Feminism
  • Social change
  • Postcolonial feminist theory
  • Global Social Policy
  • Gender and Politics
  • Democracy

Social work and social policy

  • Social policy
  • Third sector research
  • Domestic and Family Violence
  • Global Social Policy

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    The dignity by design project: survivor-led system redesign
    The National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse1 Jun 2023
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    Safer children, safer communities: enhancing perpetrator accountability to disrupt trajectories of childhood harm
    Westpac Banking Corporation1 Jan 2021
    People funded by this grant:
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    Messages from the Frontline: Australian domestic violence workers' policy advice for the implementation of national domestic violence policy and implementation.
    DVC Research1 Jan 2017
    People funded by this grant:
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    Multicultural social work model through digital media(Fostering Joint International Research) (opens in a new tab)⁠
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science1 Apr 2015 - 31 Mar 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Funaki S,
    • PHILLIPS R,
    • HAMANO T,
    • FUJITA S,
    • JUNG YM
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  • GRANT
    Being Australian A Study of Korean Australians Social, Economic & Political Participation in Australian Society
    Academy of Korean Studies1 Aug 2014
    People funded by this grant:
    • Phillips R
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    Conducting the Australian research which is to provide an overview and some insight on how Australia
    WZB Berlin Social Science Research Center (Germany)1 Jan 2006
    People funded by this grant:
    • Phillips R
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    An audit of contemporary applications of feminist approaches and frameworks for social work education
    Australian Association for social work and welfare Education (AASWWE)1 Jan 2005
    People funded by this grant:
    • Phillips R
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    Are Australian NGOs democratic organisations?
    DVC Research1 Jan 2004
    People funded by this grant:
    • Phillips R
  • GRANT
    Social Policy Development Toward a Stronger Welfare State in South Korea and its Implications for So
    Korea- Australasia Research Centre1 Jan 2004
    People funded by this grant:
    • Phillips R