You can download these papers produced by the research team below. This page will be updated regularly.
Social Policy Environment
Keevers, L., Sykes,C. and Treleaven, L. (2006) ‘The policy space as a catalyst for the push to partnership and participation.’ Paper submitted to the Governments and Communities in Partnership Conference Centre for Public Policy,The University of Melbourne 25-27 September 2006
This academic paper provides an overview of the current policy environment shaping community services organisations. It analyses some of the tensions and contradictions resulting from the policy environment for community services organisations and discusses the implications for our research project.
Community Services Knowledge
Treleaven, L. and Sykes, C. 2006. Tacit, practical and invisible: A methodology for identifying local knowledge. Paper presented at the Re-turn to Practice: Understanding Organization as it happens, 15-16 June 2006, Mykonos, Greece.
This academic paper is based on an empirical study of knowledge sharing practices within two community services organizations (CSOs) in the Illawarra. There are three challenges in this project: first, the tacit nature of the practice knowledge, its ineffability and its deep evaluations of worth in making assessments or action; second, developing ways to facilitate sharing and translation of this local, embodied, practice knowledge; and third, the power/knowledge nexus, within which such practice knowledge is positioned, when it comes to including and valuing it as evidence for planning service provision and funding allocations.