DON CHIPP FOUNDATION RESEARCH
The Don Chipp Foundation is an independent research body affiliated with the Australian Democrats. We seek to challenge as well as to inform current mainstream views on issues of great importance to the Australian community. Our Mission is to promote the values of a civil society through active engagement in public policy debates on issues which impact on the Australian community. One way this may be achieved is to foster and sponsor research on issues related to the promotion of social and economic justice within the Australian community.
Calls for expressions of interest are made available through this website and the Foundation newsletter. Grant guidelines (click here) and an application form (click here) are available from this website. Please note that these documents may be subject to change for each annual round of grants. Grant applications will only be accepted in the timeframes specified for each year.
2008 GRANTS
Investigation of strategies aimed at encouraging girls from economically and socially disadvantaged backgrounds to consider a career in information and communication technology (ICT)
Iwona Miliszewska
Victoria University
Aboriginal and non Aboriginal relationships – a unique achievement in a remote community
Ann Ingamells
Griffith University
"Ethical" investment watch: Uranium mining research project
Lauren Caulfield
Global Trade Watch: Corporate Watch Australia Project
Lessons from international development for Aboriginal poverty reduction in Australia
Ellen Gallagher
University of New England
Settlement experiences of African migrants in regional Australia: A case study of Armidale and Tamworth regional centres
Tom Maxwell
University of New England
Details of the 2007 Small Grants Program will be posted here soon.
For details of the Grants Presentation held on 29 September 2006 in Melbourne (click here).
2006 GRANTS
Immigrant health, community action and sustainability: The evolution of the Multicultural Centre for Women's Health
Lenore Manderson
Medical, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University
The Rise of the For-Profit Child Care Sector: Implications for Choosing Quality Child Care in a Regional Community
Nonie Harris
James Cook University
Seeking protection: The impact of the Australian government's Bridging Visa regime on community based asylum seekers in Australia
Grant Mitchell
Hotham Mission Asylum Seeker Project
Does Australia need a Bill of Rights?
Julie Cassidy
School of Law, Deakin University
2005 GRANTS
Changing Attitudes to Upper Houses: The Legacy of the Australian Democrats PDF summary
Nick Economou
Politics Department, Monash University
Corporate Watch Website
Julia Dehm
Global Trade Watch
A Bill of Rights in an Age of Fear PDF summary
Sarah Joseph
Castan Centre for Human Rights, Monash University
The Distributional Impact of the Welfare-to-Work Reforms Upon Australians with Disabilities PDF summary
Marie Coleman
National Foundation for Australian Women
Deliberative Design in Australia PDF summary
Lyn Carson*
Government and International Relations, The University of Sydney
The role of incrementalist thinking in Australia's minor political parties
Tim Battin*
School of Social Science, The University of New England
* denotes partial funding
2004 GRANTS
Fearing Going Home
Robert Manne
La Trobe University
The Care, Protection and Adjustment of Refugee Children in Australia
Sylvia Winton
Asylum Seekers Centre
The quality of decision making and the fairness of the decision-making process of the Refugee Review Tribunal
Anne Heseltine
Curtin University of Technology Centre for Human Rights Education
Monitoring What Happens to Australia’s Deported Asylum Seekers
Phil Glendenning
Edmund Rice Centre
Creating a Federal Court Refugee and Migration Decisions Database
Robert Lachowicz
South Brisbane Immigration and Community Legal Service