Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Professor Gabrielle Meagher’s research engages with pressing problems in social policy and the world of work. These themes come together in her research on the way social care services are practised, organised, distributed, experienced and understood by different groups. She works with colleagues in Australia and Sweden to understand how policies to ‘make markets’ in social services are transforming the welfare states in these two countries.
Research interests
Care work, marketization and privatization of social services, Australian and comparative social policy.
External positions
Affiliated Professor
1 Jan 2020 → 31 Dec 2022Professor
1 Oct 2015 → 31 Dec 2019Fingerprint Dive into the research topics where Gabrielle Meagher is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Research Output
Markets, rights and power in Australian social policy
Meagher, G. (ed.) & Goodwin, S. (ed.), 2015, Sydney, NSW: Sydney University Press. 375 p. (Public and social policy series)Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research
Open Access
Becoming an Industry: The Struggle of Social and Community Workers for Award Coverage, 1976–2001
Briggs, C., Meagher, G. & Healy, K., 2007, In : Journal of Industrial Relations. 49, 4, p. 497-521 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Where to for the welfare state? Attitudes to spending, welfare and social services
Wilson, S., Meagher, G. & Breusch, T., 2005, Australian social attitudes: the first report. Wilson, S., Meagher, G., Gibson, R., Denemark, D. & Western, M. (eds.). Sydney: UNSW Press, p. 101-121 21 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research
The reprofessionalization of social work: Collaborative approaches for achieving professional recognition
Healy, K. & Meagher, G., Mar 2004, In : British Journal of Social Work. 34, 2, p. 243-260 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review