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RSVP:   to danett@ozemail.com.au by 5.00 pm Tuesday 10 August.

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 POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH GROUP

Seminar

Friday, 11 June 2010

Time:   9.30am–12.30pm (morning tea will be served)

Place:  University of Technology, Sydney - FMU/FSU Board Room, Level 6, UTS Building 10, 235-253 Jones St, Broadway (map link below)

This is the second of a series of seminars being convened by the Australian Paid Care Research Network (APCRN) Postgraduate Group, following the establishment of the Group in February, 2010.

There will be two papers presented on research currently being undertaken by PhD students, followed by a third session providing the opportunity for discussion of an important current issue in paid care.  The three sessions are:

      Jane Mears (UWS):  Transformations of Care: Living the consequences of changing public policies in Australia

      Kylie Sait (Macq U):  Negotiating Child Care: Use of services and informal networks

      Discussion:              Future Change in Aged and Disability Care - COAG Changes to Responsibilities and the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Aged Care

                                            -   Introduced by Laurel Hixon (UTS)

For abstracts see: http://www.paidcareresearch.net.au/page.php?sid=6

 POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH GROUP

Seminar

Friday, 23 April 2010

Time:   10.00am–1.00pm (morning tea will be served)

Place:  Room 612, Education Building, Univ. of Sydney (map link below)

This is the first of a series of seminars being convened by the Australian Paid Care Research Network (APCRN) Postgraduate Group, following the successful initial get-together of the Group on 26 February.

Three papers will be presented on research currently being undertaken by PhD students. There will be the opportunity for questions and discussions after each paper. The three presenters and papers are:

      Bob Davidson:          Contestability and service providers in human services
- A case study of community aged care

      Yoshihiko Kadoya:    Managing the public service market
  - The case of the long-term care market in Japan

      Robyn Turnham:        Care workers in the community care industry

For abstracts see: http://www.paidcareresearch.net.au/page.php?sid=6

POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH GROUP

Inaugural Get-together

Friday, 26 February 2010

Postgraduate researchers studying the organisation of paid care work in child care, elder care or disability services are warmly invited to a get-together to establish links with other researchers, including postgraduate students and academics, working in this area.

Time:   10.00–12.00, Friday 26 February

Place:  Room 551, Education Building, Univ. of Sydney (map link below)

Convenors: Bob Davidson (UNSW) and Prof. Gabrielle Meagher (USyd)

During the get-together, each participant will have the opportunity to say something about their own research. We will also discuss your ideas for future activities. Morning tea will be provided.

Symposium

FOR-PROFIT PROVIDERS OF CARE

University of Sydney

29-30 November 2007

Australian governments have been expanding social service provision in recent years by funding private sector organisations to offer care services to families, to people living with disabilities, and to older people. In some service areas, non-profit providers dominate (such as home care for the aged), but for-profit providers have emerged as major players in others (such as child care and residential aged care). Given current social policy orientations, for-profit provision of paid care is likely to expand significantly in the future. This development raises some fundamental questions about the goals and capacities of the social service system in Australia. The symposium explored these questions in order to inform policy-making and practice in paid care.

A collection of eight papers from the Symposium have been published as:

Paid Care in Australia: Politics, Profits, Practices, Debra King and Gabrielle Meagher (editors), Sydney University Press, 2009, rrp $39.95.

Convened by:  Gabrielle Meagher (University of Sydney)

                      Debra King (Flinders University)  

Papers:

·     Deborah Brennan, Sue Newberry, and Sandra van der Laan

The corporatisation of child care in Australia: Easy as ABC

·     France Press and Christine Woodrow

        Corporatisation of child care - in whose interests? Critical issues in the childcare policy landscape

·     Rachel Wilson and Bronwen Dalton

 Profitability and regulation of childcare in Australia – the failure of contract failure theory

·     Jennifer Sumsion and Joy Goodfellow

 How well does the market for child care services work?

·     Greg Mundy

 For profit-provision of aged care: Is there really a difference?

·      Robin Turnham

  The commercial community care industry

·      Maria dela Rama

 Private equity and the aged care sector

·      Bob Davidson

  Forms of managed markets in human services

·      Gabrielle Meagher and Natasha Cortis

 The political economy of for-profit paid care: theory and evidence

·      Rolf Gustafsson and Marta Szebehely

  Out-sourcing of public eldercare services in the Swedish welfare model: Effects on work environment and internal political legitimacy 

·      Debra King and Bill Martin

  Caring for profit: The impact of for profit providers on the quantity and quality of jobs in paid care

·      Kylie Valentine, Cathy Thomson, and Greg Antcliff

  Early childhood services and support for vulnerable families

·      Jane Mears

          Can the for-profit providers of home based care learn from the not-for-profit providers?

Workshop

PAID CARE: NOW AND IN THE FUTURE

Flinders University

10-11 April 2006

In April 2006, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia together with the Flinders Social Monitoring and Policy Futures Network sponsored an interdisciplinary two day workshop on Paid Care

• A summary of the workshop including policy implications is in Dialogue Vol 25/2 2006
• One outcome of the workshop was a submission to the ABS which made a case for maintaining and developing the Community Services Survey. The submission also made the case for some changes and additions to the Australian and New Zealand standard Industrial Classification in the light of structural change in the community services industry.
• Papers from the workshop have been published in the Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol 42(2)

Papers: 

·     Michael Bittman, Trish Hill, and Cathy Thomson

      The impact of caring on wellbeing and earnings: A longitudinal approach

·      Deborah Brennan

The ABC of Australian Child Care

·      Bettina Cass

 Exploring social care: Padi and unpaid careat two life-course stages

·      Susan Dodds

 Depending on care: recognition of dependency and social contribution

·      Michael Fine

The new social divisions of care

·       Graeme Hugo

  Contextualising the crisis in care: A demographic perspective

·      Debra King

 Rethinking the care-market relationship in care provider organisations

·      Gabrielle Meagher

 The challenge of the care workforce: recent trends and emerging problems

·       Ian Ravenscroft

  Paid care and the price of ethics

·      Maria Zadoroznyi

 Professionals, carers or strangers: ‘place’, ‘space’ and liminality in paid postnatal home care

·      Bill Martin

 Are paid care jobs bad?: the residential aged care experience

·      Diane Gibson and Ken Tallis

  The caring landscape: a relational analysis