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The Research Plan is also available for downloading as a PDF file (portable document format). A free Acrobat reader can be obtained from the Adobe web site.

2. BASIC PRINCIPLES INFORMING RESEARCH

• 2.1 Objectives
• 2.2 Interpreting the Statutory Research Duty
• 2.3 Categories of Research
• 2.4 Styles of Research

3. THE THREE PROGRAM AREAS

• 3.1 Three Levels of Family Functioning
  • 3.1.1 The micro level: producing stable personalities
  • 3.1.2 The meso level: maintaining stable family units
  • 3.1.3 The macro level: contributing to social stability
• 3.2 The Three 'Big Issues'
• 3.3 The Establishment of the Three Program Areas

4. A NEW STRATEGY FOR RESEARCH

• 4.1 A Delimited Focus
• 4.2 Liaison with Other Research Organisations
• 4.3 New Project Proposals
• 4.4 Contract Research
• 4.5 Research Support
• 4.6 A Core Data Base
• 4.7 A Publishing Strategy

5. PROGRAM AREA A: CHILDREN AND PARENTING

• 5.1 Key Question
• 5.2 Current Core-funded Projects
  • 5.2.1 Parenting 21
  • 5.2.2 Health and Wellbeing of Children in Public Care (Evaluation of 'Looking After Children')
• 5.3 Current Contract Research: the Work of the Child Protection Clearing House
• 5.4 Future Research in Program Area A

6: PROGRAM AREA B: FAMILY AND MARRIAGE

• 6.1 Key Question
• 6.2 Current Core-funded Project: Australian Divorce Transitions
• 6.3 Current Non-core Funded Research: Sibling Relationships and Adjustment to Parental Divorce
• 6.4 Future Research in Program Area B
  • 6.4.1 A new project on 'Happy Families'
  • 6.4.2 Possible successors to the Divorce Transitions project

7: PROGRAM AREA C: FAMILY AND SOCIETY

• 7.1 Key Question
• 7.2: Current Core-funded Project: Families, Social Capital and Citizenship
• 7.3 Current Non-core Funded Research
  • 7.3.1 Increasing Labour Market Inequality in Australia: Trends, Causes, Implications and Responses
  • 7.3.2 Australia's Housing Choices: Changing Opportunities and Constraints
  • 7.3.3 Transgenerational Income Support Dependence

8. RESEARCH ON YOUTH SUICIDE PREVENTION

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