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LLE researchers investigate learning and change across diverse family networks and community groups.

We seek to develop agency through co-designed research and participatory methodologies.  

We work closely with the disability community, indigenous youth, health service providers and the families utilising these services. 

Ethics and sustainability

Ethical Leadership

  • Research team:  Rick Flowers with UTS Shopfront and UTS Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion
  • Funding:  George Koukis philanthropist $20,000

Working with the SDGs – One story at a time

  • Researcher:  Donna Rooney

Health and disability

Disability Citizenship Monitor

  • Research team: Simon Darcy (lead CI, UTS Business), Deborah De bono (Health), Bronwyn Hemsley (Health), Hamish Robertson (Health), Linda Steele (Law), Kirsty Young (Education), Adam Berry (Data Institute), Phillippa Carnemolla (DAB)
  • Funding:  UTS cross-faculty collaboration grant $20,000

Disability Data Innovation

  • Research team: Adam Berry (lead CI, Data Institute), James Brown (FEIT), Valerie Gay (FEIT), Deborah Debono (Health), Bronwyn Hemsley (Health), Hamish Robertson (Health), Linda Steele (Law), Kirsty Young (Education), Simon Darcy (Business), Phillippa Carnemolla (DAB)
  • Funding: UTS cross-faculty collaboration grant $49,629

How to promote brilliant healthcare for complex health issues

  • Research team:  Nick Hopwood with Western Sydney Business School and St George Hospital
  • Funding:  Western Sydney University Business School $75,000

Research-informed education resources for Nepalese parents experiencing difficulty with child feeding

  • Researcher:  Nick Hopwood
  • Funding:  South Eastern Sydney Local Health District Multicultural Health Grants Program $19,968

Supporting children with complex feeding difficulties (SUCCEED)

  • Research team: Nick Hopwood with South Eastern Sydney Local  Health District
  • Funding:  Maridulu Budyari Gumal / Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE), an NHMRC accredited Academic Health Science Partnership $69,196

Indigenous youth

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students' early exit from The Smith Family's Learning for Life education scholarships program

Researcher:  Katrina Thorpe

Funding: The Smith Family

Evaluation of AISNSW pilot project: Improving Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students

Researcher: Tracy Barber

Funding: The Association of Independent Schools (NSW)

Improving Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students

Researcher: Tracy Barber

Funding: The Association of Independent Schools (NSW)

The role of The Smith Family’s Learning for Life educational scholarship program in supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Year 12 completions

Researcher: Katrina Thorpe

Funding:  The Smith Family

Strategic Research for the GO Foundation

Researcher: Tracy Barber

Funding: Goodes O’Loughlin Foundation Limited

Testing a new model for addressing covert racism faced by Indigenous youth

  • Research team: Bep Uink (Murdoch University), Jonathan Bullen (Curtin University), Rebecca Bennett (Murdoch University), Gregory Martin (UTS), Ashleigh Lin (Telethon Kids Institute), Jenna Woods (Murdoch University) & Yin Paradies (Deakin University)
  • Funding:  Australian Research Council, Indigenous Discovery Grant  $548,000

Wonnarua/Gringai Language Project

Researcher: Tracy Barber

Funding: Wonnarua National Aboriginal Corporation

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UTS acknowledges the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation and the Boorooberongal People of the Dharug Nation upon whose ancestral lands our campuses now stand. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands. 

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