Research
Tia-Louise’s research interests include:
Institutional Fragmentation
Examining how the division of responsibilities, knowledge, decision-making, and service delivery across institutions shapes the operation of child protection systems.
Safeguarding Continuity
Exploring how children’s experiences of protection and support are affected when moving between different services, organisations, or systems of care.
Child Protection Systems
Examining how child protection institutions operate and how governance arrangements influence responses to children and families.
Indigenous Governance and Settler Colonial Contexts
Exploring how governance structures and historical contexts shape contemporary policy and institutional arrangements.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT
Fragmented Protection: Institutional Fragmentation and Safeguarding Continuity in Australian Child Protection Systems
Tia-Louise is currently developing this minor thesis project as part of her Master of Development Studies at the University of Melbourne.
The project examines how institutional fragmentation within Australian child protection systems shapes safeguarding continuity for children moving between different systems of care.
The research explores how child protection systems are structured across multiple institutions, organisations, and jurisdictions, and how these arrangements influence the continuity, coordination, and delivery of support for children and families.
The project engages with scholarship relating to:
settler colonial studies
Indigenous governance
institutional analysis
classification systems
social policy