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Interagency collaborations supporting resilient students, families, schools in disadvantaged communities  
  
Social disadvantage due to poverty, poor health, unemployment, and educational underachievement is geographically concentrated. But not all students in disadvantaged communities have poor outcomes.

This project will identify students, families, schools, and communities indicating resilience; the conditions and characteristics of that resilience; and the educational, health, work-related, leisure interventions that improve individual and collective opportunities.

Its interdisciplinary mixed methods will produce significant national and regional outcomes (approaches, strategies, models) of interagency collaborations to inform families, school, communities, policymakers and practitioners about sustainable and replicable interventions.  

Investigating mismatches between Australian international graduate destinations and skill shortages  

Focusing on perceptions of English usage and intercultural capabilities, this project investigates issues around employment of international graduates from Australian universities into the professions with skill shortages.

In a longitudinal study, it collects survey and biographical data about the employment expectations and experiences of sixteen cohorts of students transitioning from four Australian universities into work. It analyses academic pedagogies and support for international students, and business recruitment practices of international graduates and how these are mediated by federal policy.

It will contribute to national higher education, migration, and recruitment policies and practices.