Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Professor Philip Mendes teaches Social Policy and Community Development, and is the Director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit in the Department of Social Work. His key research areas include young people transitioning from out-home-care, income support including compulsory income management, social workers and policy practice, illicit drugs policy, Indigenous social policy, and Jewish community responses to institutional child sexual abuse. He is a member of the Transitions to Adulthood for Young People Leaving Public Care International Research Group, and won the 2019 Faculty of Medicine Dean's Award for Excellence in Research Impact. He is the author or editor of 12 books, and the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed academic journal articles and book chapters. His latest books include the 3rd edition of the popular textbook, Australia's Welfare Wars, published by UNSW Press in 2017, and Empowerment and Control in the Australian Welfare State (Routledge, 2019).
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- social policy
- welfare state
- young people transitioning from out of home care
- community development
- income security
- Indigenous social policy
- illicit drugs policy
- social work activism
Network
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Deep End Living Lab: better support for healthy ageing in homeless populations
Sturgiss, L., Nielsen, S., Skouteris, H., Blane, D., Collyer, T., Haines, T., Edwards, I., Urban, A., Blewitt, C., Mendes, P. & Gunatillaka, N.
1/10/22 → 31/07/24
Project: Research
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Evaluation of the MCM Youth Housing Initiative: A User-Centred, Hybrid Design
Shlonsky, A., Mendes, P., Petrakis, M. & Baidawi, S.
1/07/22 → 30/06/27
Project: Research
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Transitioning from out of home care: A longitudinal population-based study
Chung, D., Cordier, R., Mendes, P., Thoresen, S., O'Donnell, M., Martin, R., Stratton, K. & Lund, S.
Project: Research
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Enhancing the Educational Experiences of children in out-of-home care
Berger, E., Mendes, P., Baidawi, S. & D'Souza, L.
1/07/20 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
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How do Australian policymakers frame the causes of and policy solutions to poverty? A critical examination of Anti-Poverty Week parliamentary debates from 2012 to 2021
Mendes, P. & Roche, S., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Australian Journal of Social Issues. 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Paternalistic welfare or co-designed partnerships with local communities? Analysis of community group submissions to six Australian parliamentary inquiries into the cashless debit card from 2015–2020
Mendes, P., Roche, S. & Edwards, T., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: The International Journal of Community and Social Development. p. 1-22 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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The Australian Association of Social Workers and its historical engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs
Mendes, P., Jan 2023, Bulletin of the Social Work History Network, 9, 1, p. 12-17 6 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article › Research
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Young people transitioning from out-of-home care: their experience of informal support. A scoping review
Stubbs, A., Baidawi, S. & Mendes, P., Jan 2023, In: Children and Youth Services Review. 144, 41 p., 106735.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Advancing the social rights of care leavers: Towards a new community-based social network and peer support model for supporting young people transitioning from out-of-home care in times of crisis
Mendes, P., Purtell, J. & Waugh, J., 30 Aug 2022, In: New Community Quarterly. 20, 2, p. 58-62 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Prizes
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Australian Journal of Political Science Mayer Journal Prize for 2021
Mendes, Philip (Recipient), 6 Sep 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
- 1 Contribution to conference
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National Conference of the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC) 2019
Rachel Standfield (Speaker), Philip Mendes (Speaker), Jacinta Walsh (Speaker) & Emily Armstrong (Speaker)
3 Sep 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference