Projects
  1. Setting the Foundations for child protection research in NSW (funded by AIATSIS)
  2. Bring them Home, Keep Them Home (collaborator on UNSW project, funded by ARC)
  3. Metasynthesis of the evidence in Aboriginal child and family supports (funded by QATSICPP)
  4. Replanting the Birthing Trees (collaborator on Uni Melb project, funded by MRFF) – particularly contributing to SaFEST START and Wise Counsel aspects)
  5. Supporting Waminda's Nabu program – program logic and evaluation readiness
  6. Decolonising child welfare institutions (funded by ARC: 2022 Australian Laureate Fellowship awarded to Prof Larissa Behrendt) – focused on self-determination in child protection institutions
  7. Advocacy and influence
    1. SNAICC Family Matters Campaign (co-chaired by Dr Paul Gray)
    2. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leadership Group for Safe and Supported: National Framework for Protecting Australia's Children 2021-2031
    3. National Agreement on Closing the Gap: Early Childhood Care and Development Policy Partnership (Dr Paul Gray serves as an independent member)
    4. National Agreement on Closing the Gap: Social and Emotional Wellbeing Policy Partnership (Dr Paul Gray serves as an independent member)
    5. NSW Peak-led Family is Culture reform advocacy 

We are also proud to provide some limited, unfunded support to Aboriginal families affected by child protection. This includes attending meeting, undertaking advocacy, and providing information and other supports to assist them to participate to the greatest extent possible, and mitigate their experience of harm through these systems. At times we also provide expert reports and other evidence to inform processes in decisions about Aboriginal children and families.

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. 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.