Shopfront
The UTS Shopfront was founded in 1996 as a cross-disciplinary initiative to strengthen university and community collaboration. UTS Shopfront, aims to build strong and sustainable communities by providing capacity development for community based organisations, supporting community engaged scholarship, and facilitating UTS students to develop leadership skills.
The UTS Shopfront's research agenda supports emerging UTS researchers with a commitment to the field of 'university-community engagement.' Its research publications recognise and promote the work of UTS academics and high achieving students, and aim to advance the scholarship of community engagement.
The UTS Shopfront produces an Academic Research Series and the Student Research Series which are published on an ad hoc basis.
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This report explores how businesses and employers can make meaningful and sustainable employment possible for people with disability. The research selected nine disability employment programs—from ...
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The literature review aims to answer the research question: what are the characteristics of current good practice in employment programs for people with disabilities? The paper reviews literature f...
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This review was commissioned by the Stay Kind Foundation with the aim of examining patterns in the timings of youth suicides. The research draws on relevant literature from the past 10 years to est...
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This monograph is the first comprehensive and independent analysis of Human Libraries (formerly Living Libraries) in Australia. ‘Human Libraries’ refers to an innovative social inclusion community ...
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This review was commissioned by Arts Access Australia to examine evidence for the value of visual arts programs in Australian prisons and their impact on adult inmates. It considers current philos...
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Rough Living: Surviving Violence and Homelessness reveals the ways in which intense chains of disadvantage incorporating homelessness are triggered by very early experiences of violence. Drawing on...
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This research by Linda Leung investigated the use of Information communication technologies (ICT) by refugees during flight, displacement and in settlement. It examined the impact of Australia’s of...
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This report is about the current state of human rights and the advocacy campaigns to end various abuses to these rights. It challenges views that give authority exclusively to the 1948 Universal De...
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This research monograph documents and analyses the many ways in which communities experiencing racism after September 11, 2001 have responded to increased prejudice, harassment and discrimination. ...
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This research project was conducted on behalf of the Northern Beaches Youth Community Fund. The aim of the report is to update The Northern Beaces "Codes of Silence" report (1999) by identifying th...