CHASE research
CHASE's research profile is characterised by:
- acknowledging the multiple forms of exclusion and the diversity of communities;
- building on the agency and creativity of people to respond within frameworks of stigma and exclusion;
- working to ensure the best possible positioning for the excluded to help themselves;
- recognising that health can be improved even if people remain excluded;
- remaining optimistic that ways out of various forms of exclusion can be found; and
- tackling the underlying causes of exclusion
in pragmatic and realistic ways.
Current capacities and programs of research by CHASE research teams within the Faculty of Health , Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences are extensive and are continually developing.
Four major developed areas of research within CHASE are listed. Work in these areas is neceessarily inter-connected. Underlying the group's work in all these areas is an active concern with: the development of mixed methodologies; the application of systems thinking, multidisciplinary approaches; systematic approaches to reviewing and synthesising the research literature and with issues of knowledge transfer and practice development. The disciplines represented within these CHASE research areas include: public health, health promotion, health sciences, social work, occupational science and therapy, sociology, anthropology and disability studies.
