Research Themes and Major Projects
Childhood Intervention, Development, and Wellbeing
This theme brings together research particularly in the areas of Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing, mental health, child development, and cultural studies.
Education Systems Reform
This research theme produces evidence-based knowledge on effective teaching methods, and formulates policy advice on strategies to overcome the challenge of translating good theory into practise.
- Accelerated Literacy
- ABRACADABRA!
- Joining health and education interventions in early childhood
- Linking bush schools and education to community-based livelihoods
- Invisible parents project
Population Studies
This theme studies urban and regional change, including an analysis of the economic, socio-cultural and political processes associated with demographic change in Northern Australia. Read the research overview | View our blog | Research brief downloads
- NT mobility project
- Population futures
- Indigenous ageing project
- Planning and development of Darwin city
Gambling Research
This research comprises a series of related projects which investigate Indigenous perspectives on gambling, general gambling patterns in the Territory population, and regulation systems in the Territory compared with other jurisdictions.
Regional Development
- Creative tropical city
- Indigenous housing
- Cultural signs of Central Australia
- Bush harvest: Sustainability of small-scale commercial bush harvest
- Regional, political and social economy
