I'm starting a thread here on #UsefulSocialSciences to show @MakeMayoMatter @JacquiLambie @Stirling_G why it is wrong to stop kids from poorer backgrounds studying in social science. Here are some of the 'useful' & employable things we research & teach. @TASA @MQ_Sociology
Housing affordability: understanding housing markets and how we design better housing policy so young people and the less well off can afford a home. #UsefulSocialSciences
Work & economy: What is happening with modern labour markets - what are the social impacts of insecure work
Domestic violence: why is it increasing and what can we do about it.
Social policy: how do we know if government social policies work or fail? How do we evaluate them?
Understanding patterns and how to tackle poverty and disadvantage.
How do we build strong communities and healthy neighbourhoods?
Why is the far right on the rise and what can we do about it?
What accounts for spikes in suicide rates among particular populations?
How do we measure childhood wellbeing and design social policies to ensure our children thrive in society?
How do we help new migrants settle into society?
What are the negative social impacts of economic globalisation and how can we ameliorate them?
Keep adding your examples of #UsefulSocialSciences to this thread
Childcare, aged care, disability services: Understanding the public/private mix and the consequences of privatisation and marketisation of care services. #UsefulSocialSciences #BlockTheBill
Understanding the extent and impact of inequality and poverty. Studies on the lived experience of poverty, how poverty, deprivation and disadvantage are conceptualised and measured. Helping to design good public policy #UsefulSocialSciences #BlockTheBill
Researchers investigating social practices and decisions to do with work and family, parenting, childcare, gendered/household division of work, child and family wellbeing, and child welfare and family support. #UsefulSocialSciences #BlockTheBill @SPRC_UNSW
Understanding the social patterns, causes and consequences of drug use. Generating effective drug policy based on the best research findings.
#UsefulSocialSciences #BlockTheBill @SPRC_UNSW
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