Our projects
Current projects
Title | Addiction in the Australian legal system: A sociological analysis |
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Funder | Australian Research Council |
Grant | Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) |
Dates | 2016-2018 |
Amount | $323,088 (indicative) |
Chief Investigator(s) | Dr Kate Seear |
Summary | This project is designed to analyse and compare legal approaches to addiction to alcohol and other drugs (AOD), identifying the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches. Harms associated with AOD cost Australia over $25 billion per year. The law plays a central role in managing these harms. Yet legal responses to AOD and the key concept of 'addiction' are often inconsistent. These variations have unintended and often adverse economic, social and health implications. The expected project outcomes will inform new, more productive approaches to AOD-related harms in Australian law, contributing to improved economic, social and health outcomes. |
Title | The Claims, Advice and Decisions after Injury (CADI) Study |
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Funder | Motor Accidents Authority of New South Wales |
Grant | Injury Management Grants Program |
Dates | 2014-2016 |
Amount | $94,000 |
Chief Investigator(s) | Dr Genevieve Grant |
Summary | The CADI Study investigates the claiming decisions and advice-seeing activity of people injured in motor accidents in NSW. CADI is sub-study of the Factors Influencing Social and Health Outcomes after Land Transport Injury Study (the FISH Study). The components of CADI include
CADI will provide the MAA with evidence to inform the development and evaluation of policy options in the motor accidents scheme. It will achieve this by
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Recently completed projects
Title | The Health Effects of Compensation Systems (HECS) Study |
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Funder | Institute for Safety, Compensation and Recovery Research, Transport Accident Commission and WorkSafe Victoria |
Grant | Research Grant |
Dates | 2011-2013 |
Amount | $439,126.00 |
Chief Investigator(s) | Dr Genevieve Grant, Prof David Studdert, A/Prof Meaghan O'Donnell, Dr Matt Spittal (University of Melbourne), |
Summary | The HECS Study investigated the claiming experiences of a sample of transport accident and workers' compensation claimants, and the relationship between those experiences and claimants' long-term health outcomes. The study sample was drawn from a prospective cohort study of 1010 patients hospitalised for injuries in 2004-06 in three Australian states (Vic, SA and NSW). |