2025 seed funding recipient This project will examine how boundaries between different professions are managed when conflict arises in the governance of health care.
2025 seed funding recipient This project will seek to address the existing knowledge gap about contraceptive health care for people with intellectual disability in Australia.
2025 seed funding recipient This interdisciplinary project brings together experts across human rights, information systems and engineering to address healthcare challenges faced by stateless communities.
2024 seed funding recipient A unique collaboration between the associates of the Australian Human Rights Institute and the UNSW Faculty of Engineering, this project aims to facilitate the transition of communities in Mongolia to renewable energy sources.
2024 seed funding recipient This study aims to address this evidence gap and assess the accessibility and inclusivity of publicly funded sexual health services in NSW for non-binary individuals from the perspective of clinicians working in one of these services.
2024 seed funding recipient This project aims to use arts- and community-based research to examine violations of criminal justice involved individuals’ human rights in processes of criminalisation, police practices and in prisons.
2024 seed funding recipient This project will demonstrate solar and wind hybrid potential sites over French Polynesia and Fiji Islands, and provide policymakers and stakeholders with an understanding of risks, threats, and vulnerabilities associated with planning for future solarwind hybrid farms.
2024 seed funding recipient The study aims to explore the social, legal, geospatial and built infrastructure needed to improve the evacuation experiences and outcomes for disabled Filipinos in geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas, using the case study of Dinagat Local Government Area.
2024 seed funding recipient This project aims to find out what UNSW (and other universities) can do to ensure system-impacted students thrive in higher education and beyond, and that their rights to education, social well-being, and future employment are upheld.
2023 seed funding recipient The objective of this research project is to develop a sustainable model to empower geographic information systems to support the realisation of the right to food.
2023 seed funding recipient This research project will incorporate community experiences and attitudes into the debate on non-therapeutic infant male circumcision.
2023 seed funding recipient This project aims to identify the land administrations challenges of Fiji in the context of informal settlements in its urbanised area.
2023 seed funding recipient This project aims to further fill knowledge gaps in the current needs, circumstances and outlook for people with intellectual disability in the criminal justice system in Australia.
2023 seed funding recipient This project aims to contribute to current international law studies on human rights at sea, increase awareness and advocacy tools and tighten the regulatory regimes bearing on this issue to reduce incidence of forced labour and slavery in the fishing industry.
2023 seed funding recipient This project will build from the recent efforts of Purple House which aim to address the poor water quality and to reduce total water consumption for dialysis treatment through the design and implementation of the state-of-the-art water treatment systems.
2022 seed funding recipient The project will provide preliminary data to understand social and individual perceptions of aging, and how negative perceptions can adversely influence an individual’s health through loss of opportunity and medical treatment.
2022 seed funding recipient This research aims to highlight the impact of family separation on mental health and resettlement outcomes of refugees and asylum-seekers living in Australia.
2021 seed funding recipient An empirical ethics research project that aims to examine the potential impacts of a ‘vaccine passport’ using a human rights lens.
2021 seed funding recipient This research will explore the use of the UNSW Tax Clinic as a safe mechanism for screening for domestic and family violence (with a focus on economic abuse).
2021 seed funding recipient This research project was developed to make women's lived experiences with HIV visible, and to document the impacts of creative methods in changing stigmatising and discriminatory attitudes in the general public.
2021 seed funding recipient This project explores the specific stressors in a refugee transit context that give rise to feelings of injustice, or how this sense of injustice relates to refugee mental health and wellbeing.
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