Projects
Evaluation of the Justice-based Impacts of the Public Intoxication Reform
Primary Chief Investigator: Professor Kyllie Cripps
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Narelle Warren
Chief Investigator: Dr Dima Rusho (project manager)
Chief Investigator: Dr Cammi Murrup-Stewart
Chief Investigator: Dr Stephen Gray
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Tania Penovic
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Maria O'Sullivan
Chief Investigator: Professor Dharmalingam Arunachalam
This project will evaluate the justice-based impacts of the Public Intoxication Reform in Victoria, which went into effect on 7th November 2023. In particular, the project measures the impact on a number of mariginalised groups, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Peoples, Sudanese and South Sudanese communities, people with mental health related illness, people experiencing homelessness and housing instability, members of the LGBTI community and young people
Funded by the Department of Justice and Community Safety
Wellbeing, personhood, and support for 0lder Vietnamese carers
Chief investigator: Professor Narrelle Warren
Chief Investigator: Dr Dima Rusho
'Burden of care' is a concept that has dominated most theorising on care, particularly in relation to health and ageing. Yet, our research pushes back against this concept to argue that care is more than a burden - it is 'burdensome' (a process) because of the involved labour and its impact on carers - but it is also highly relational. One main factor impacting the wellbeing of carers relates to the loss of self - including time for self-care, opportunities for sociality, and leisure time. This project seeks to undertake a pilot study/proof of concept study on low-cost interventions to enhance the wellbeing of carers of older people with dementia, sarcopenia, Parkinson's disease and other forms of age-related disability. Our team goal is then to scale this up for other settings and apply for larger-scale funding. The specific project aims are:
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To examine factors that contribute to sense of diminished wellbeing among older Vietnamese carers;
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To identify the extent to which social-based interventions can lead to improvements in carer wellbeing; and
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To assess the extent to which personhood-related factors shape people's experience of burden and diminished wellbeing when they are involved in/responsible for older family members.
Funded by Monash University Emerging Strength Seed Scheme
HalloStroke: Scaling up a community support ecosystem for stroke care
Prime Chief Investigator Juliana Sutanto
Prime Chief Investigator Narelle Warren
Chief Investigator Pei-Lee Teh
Chief Investigator Siti Maisarah
Chief Investigator Sharyn Davies
Chief Investigator Devi Mohan
Chief Investigator Hyein Ellen Cho
Chief Investigator Pei-Chun Ko
Chief Investigator Dima Rusho
Chief Investigator Arthur Hendrik Philips Mawuntu
Chief Investigator Putu Wuri Handayani
Chief Investigator Huyen Thi Thanh Vu
Chief Investigator Muhammad Isman Jusuf
Chief Investigator Yulisna Sari
Chief Investigator Thanh Xuan Nguyen
Chief Investigator Tuan Anh Tran
Chief Investigator Thu Thi Hoai Nguyen
Chief Investigator Kamila Alifia
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Funded by Monash University - Monash Incubator Grant 2025
Care across borders: Ageing, long-term care, and the migrant care workforce in regional Japan and Korea
Primary Chief Investigator: Dr Ellen Cho
Chief Investigator: Dr Dima Rusho
Chief Investigator: Professor Narelle Warren
This project will examine how ageing, migration and regionality are reshaping long-term care in Japan and South Korea. Focusing on regional care settings in Gifu, Japan, and Asan, South Korea, the project explores how care workers, managers and migrant care workers experience rising demand, staffing strain and the everyday realities of delivering care in super-aged societies. It connects system-level issues, including Long-Term Care Insurance frameworks and labour pathways, with the lived experience of those working on the ground.
Funded by the The Sumitomo Foundation - Japan-Related Research Projects
Optimising the availability and provision of Indigenous language interpreting in circuit courts
Primary Chief Investigator: Dr Dima Rusho
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor John Bradley
Chief Investigator: Dr Greg Dickson
The project addresses the issue of inconsistent access to Indigenous language interpreting services in remote Indigenous communities, particularly in the context of circuit courts. The study is conducted in two Indigenous communities, Ngukurr and Borroloola, and focuses on the availability of interpreters from these communities, training and qualification opportunities, the discretionary use of interpreters by courts, and community understandings and expectations of the interpreting profession.
https://www.indigenousjustice.gov.au/indigenous-justice-research-program-2/
Funded by the Indigenous Justice Research Program, Australian Institute of Criminology
Global dementias: Examining structural vulnerability and dementia outcomes
Lead Chief investigator: Associate Professor Narrelle Warren
This project aims to examine the social and cultural dimensions of dementia by using a comparative ethnographic approach to examine the experiences of people living with dementia in Australia, Malaysia, and Bangladesh. The project expects to generate new anthropological knowledge about structural inequalities by examining how dementia is responded to in diverse geographic, cultural and social settings. Expected outcomes of this project include the creation of a new evidence-base on dementia and the production of briefing documents to guide global health frameworks. The project should provide significant benefits for people living with dementia by providing locally-relevant strategies to respond to dementia and resultant disability.
Role: Research Fellow
Funded by the Australian Research Council