Posts tagged Place
Why Where You Live Matters for Young Children
Why Where You Live Matters for Young Children

Ahead of the International Day of Families on 15th May, Dr Karen Villanueva and colleagues from the Social Equity Research Centre at RMIT University, along with researchers from the University of South Australia, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, and the University of Montreal, explore why neighbourhoods matter for young children.

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Policy and governancePower to Persuadesocial determinants of health, Place, urban planning, family, Equity, Children
Community Wealth Building in the Victorian Goldfields
Community Wealth Building in the Victorian Goldfields

There has been increasing interest in revamping our economic systems to better support individual and collective health and wellbeing and distribute wealth more evenly, while doing more to protect the planet. In today’s post, recently-appointed VicHealth (@VicHealth) postdoctoral research fellow Melissa Kennedy of Deakin University (@DeakinSeed) explains what Community Wealth Building (CWB) is and how a recent Masterclass in the Victorian Goldfields region explored its transformative potential.  

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Innovation, Finance and economicsPower to Persuadeeconomy, Place, financial wellbeing, innovation
The shifting sands of community needs: Re-thinking place based interventions

The controversies of the 2016 census now seem in the distant past but the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is busy collating the numbers from last year’s eventful census and are preparing for the release of data over the coming months. Stephen Gow, from specialist health system advisory service Open Advisory Pty Ltd, considers how the census powers our understanding of the notion of “place”.

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Creating using evidence, Innovation, Policy and governancePower to PersuadePopulation health, Data, Disadvantage, Place