Overview
Background
Cameron is an Australian Research Council Industry Fellow in partnership with Micah Projects.
His work examines multiple forms of exclusion and social harms. Cameron's research focuses on the nature and experience of poverty, homelessness, and domestic and family violence. He is interested in understanding what societies do to respond to these problems, and what societies ought to do differently to address them. In collaboration with researchers and partners from not-for-profit organisations, Cameron’s program of research seeks to identify how citizens experiencing exclusion and practitioners working with them can work with governments to bring about systematic societal change.
In his first book, The Homeless Person in Contemporary Society, Cameron sought to highlight how the representation of people who are homeless as distinct informs a policy and practice agenda that he characterised as a poverty of ambition. Cameron's second book with Andrew Clarke and Francisco (Paco) Perales, Charity and Poverty in Advanced Welfare States, takes on the question how can we be just by soothing the consequences of poverty without addressing the causes of poverty.
Cameron's most recent book published by Polity Press, Homelessness, demonstrates that homelessness is a punishing, predictable, yet solvable social problem.https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=9781509554492
Availability
- Professor Cameron Parsell is:
- Available for supervision
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Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Addressing Poverty
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Welfare State
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Charity
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Identity
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Homelessness
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Qualitative and ethnographic research
Works
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2024
Journal Article
Climbing, stalling, falling: how people experiencing housing instability anticipate their futures
Plage, Stefanie, Stambe, Rose-Marie, Parsell, Cameron and Kuskoff, Ella (2024). Climbing, stalling, falling: how people experiencing housing instability anticipate their futures. Journal of Sociology, 61 (1), 40-61. doi: 10.1177/14407833241255151
2024
Journal Article
Re(de)fining success: tenancy issues, provider supports, and tenancy outcomes in an Australian Permanent Supportive Housing programme
Perales, Francisco, Parsell, Cameron, Ablaza, Christine, Kuskoff, Ella, Plage, Stefanie and Stambe, Rose (2024). Re(de)fining success: tenancy issues, provider supports, and tenancy outcomes in an Australian Permanent Supportive Housing programme. Housing Studies, 1-25. doi: 10.1080/02673037.2024.2339915
2024
Journal Article
“There’s not much I can do about it”: violence and control in marginal(izing) spaces
Stambe, Rose-Marie, Plage, Stefanie, Kuskoff, Ella and Parsell, Cameron (2024). “There’s not much I can do about it”: violence and control in marginal(izing) spaces. Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness, 1-9. doi: 10.1080/10530789.2024.2308495
2024
Other Outputs
Supportive housing for families in Brisbane: Successes and challenges of the housing model
Kuskoff, Ella, Stambe, Rose, Sharma, Nikita, Plage, Stefanie and Parsell, Cameron (2024). Supportive housing for families in Brisbane: Successes and challenges of the housing model. LCC Working Paper Series. 2024-02. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/7a4d8f6
2024
Journal Article
Racial and gender bias in self-reported needs when using a homelessness triaging tool
Kithulgoda, Chamari I., Vaithianathan, Rhema and Parsell, Cameron (2024). Racial and gender bias in self-reported needs when using a homelessness triaging tool. Housing Studies, 39 (8), 1951-1973. doi: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2151986
2023
Other Outputs
Keeping families together: 2023 study report
Kuskoff, Ella, Stambe, Rose, Sharma, Nikita, Plage, Stefanie and Parsell, Cameron (2023). Keeping families together: 2023 study report. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Micah Projects.
2023
Journal Article
Christianity, helping people in poverty, and embodied relationships
Parsell, Cameron and Stambe, Rose (2023). Christianity, helping people in poverty, and embodied relationships. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 63 (2), 350-367. doi: 10.1111/jssr.12899
2023
Other Outputs
Ending homelessness through permanent supportive housing: a cost offset update
Parsell, Cameron, Sharma, Nikita and Kuskoff, Ella (2023). Ending homelessness through permanent supportive housing: a cost offset update. LCC Working Paper Series. 2023-27. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland Australia. doi: 10.14264/31b3388
2023
Journal Article
Seeing, sharing and supporting: assertive outreach as a partial solution to rough sleeping
Stambe, Rose, Kuskoff, Ella, Parsell, Cameron, Plage, Stefanie, Ablaza, Christine and Perales, Francisco (2023). Seeing, sharing and supporting: assertive outreach as a partial solution to rough sleeping. The British Journal of Social Work, 54 (2), 723-740. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcad251
2023
Conference Publication
Evaluation Accountability: A Systematic Review and Meta-Evaluation of Social Impact Evaluation
Ahearn, Elizabeth-Rose, Stambe, Rose, Ablaza, Tin, Chapman, Cassandra and Parsell, Cameron (2023). Evaluation Accountability: A Systematic Review and Meta-Evaluation of Social Impact Evaluation. 52nd Annual ARNOVA Conference, Orlando, FL United States, 9-11 November 2023.
2023
Other Outputs
Hanging by a thread: our search for home
Wood, Leanne, Stambe, Rose-Marie, Plage, Stefanie, Parsell, Cameron, Maddren, Rees, Ledgerwood, Tahnee and Kuskoff, Ella (2023). Hanging by a thread: our search for home. Fortitude Valley, QLD, Australia: Anglicare Southern Queensland; The University of Queensland.
2023
Other Outputs
Investigative panel into building and retaining and effective homelessness sector workforce
James, Amity, Dunlop, Patrick D., Gilbert, Catherine, Gilbert, Jess, Gagné, Marylène, Parsell, Cameron, Cawthray, Jenna and Muhammad Farid, Hawa (2023). Investigative panel into building and retaining and effective homelessness sector workforce. AHURI Final Report Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. doi: 10.18408/ahuri8128901
2023
Other Outputs
Health, home, hope. A research report on Inclusive Health and Wellness Partnerships
Plage, Stefanie, Parsell, Cameron, Kuskoff, Ella, Stambe, Rose-Marie, Baker, Kirsten and Mansuri, Arif (2023). Health, home, hope. A research report on Inclusive Health and Wellness Partnerships. St Lucia, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.
2023
Other Outputs
Understanding the feelings of poverty: shame, anger, and hope
Stambe, Rose-Marie and Parsell, Cameron (2023, 09 29). Understanding the feelings of poverty: shame, anger, and hope The Power to Persuade
2023
Book
Homelessness: A Critical Introduction
Parsell, Cameron (2023). Homelessness: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Polity Press.
2023
Other Outputs
Assertive outreach as a response to rough sleeping: seeing people, sharing information, and supporting housing access
Stambe, Rose, Kuskoff, Ella, Parsell, Cameron, Plage, Stefanie, Ablaza, Christine and Perales, Francisco (2023). Assertive outreach as a response to rough sleeping: seeing people, sharing information, and supporting housing access. LCC Working Paper Series. 2023-20. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland Australia. doi: 10.14264/a370d12
2023
Journal Article
Staying safe, feeling welcome, being seen: how spatio-temporal configurations affect relations of care at an inclusive health and wellness centre
Plage, Stefanie, Baker, Kirsten, Parsell, Cameron, Stambe, Rose-Marie, Kuskoff, Ella and Mansuri, Arif (2023). Staying safe, feeling welcome, being seen: how spatio-temporal configurations affect relations of care at an inclusive health and wellness centre. Health Expectations, 26 (6), 2620-2629. doi: 10.1111/hex.13858
2023
Journal Article
Bystander intervention in intimate partner violence: a scoping review of experiences and outcomes
Kuskoff, Ella and Parsell, Cameron (2023). Bystander intervention in intimate partner violence: a scoping review of experiences and outcomes. Trauma, Violence and Abuse, 25 (3), 15248380231195886-1813. doi: 10.1177/15248380231195886
2023
Journal Article
Shame, anger and hope: The messy relations of charitable help within the welfare state
Stambe, Rose-Marie and Parsell, Cameron (2023). Shame, anger and hope: The messy relations of charitable help within the welfare state. Sociology, 58 (3), 1-16. doi: 10.1177/00380385231195790
2023
Conference Publication
Christianity, helping the poor, and relationships to drive structural transformation
Stambe, Rose-Marie and Parsell, Cameron (2023). Christianity, helping the poor, and relationships to drive structural transformation. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia, 25 June-1 July 2023.
Funding
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Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Social Identity in Aotearoa NZ today
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Learning from lived experience: Consumer Participation in Specialist Homelessness Services
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Ella Kuskoff
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Doctor Philosophy
Research evidence in the not-for-profit sector and consumer-driven change
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Ella Kuskoff
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Doctor Philosophy
Shelter from the Storm? The implementation of trauma informed care in specialist homelessness and mainstream services in NSW
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Ella Kuskoff
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Doctor Philosophy
The Social Impact of Social Impact Evaluation: A Meta-Evaluation
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Cassandra Chapman
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Doctor Philosophy
Shelter from the Storm? The implementation of trauma informed care in specialist homelessness and mainstream services in NSW
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Ella Kuskoff
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Doctor Philosophy
Deconstructing the charitable triad: Raising beneficiary voices to be heard alongside donors and fundraisers
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Cassandra Chapman
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Doctor Philosophy
The Liminal Place: Exploring the experiences of residents in two rural Australian border communities during the COVID-19 pandemic
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Zoe Staines
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Doctor Philosophy
Hepatitis C Nurse Practitioner led integrated model of care: An innovative response to a chronic health concern
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Karen Healy
Completed supervision
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Ola Manaia: Exploring how Samoan diaspora in Greater Brisbane, Australia, conceptualise the good life
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Shuang Liu
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
The road to hell is paved with good policy intentions: An analysis of government intervention in cultural aspects of domestic violence
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Greg Marston
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Risky transitions: Leaving out-of-home care in South East Queensland
Principal Advisor
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Behaviour change, rigorous evidence and public policy
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Emma Antrobus, Professor Brian Head, Associate Professor Sarah Bennett
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
The housing security afforded by the later life housing circumstances of ex-service households of Queensland: A life course perspective.
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Mark Western, Associate Professor Maree Petersen
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Understanding the Life Course Events and Trajectories of People Who Have Experienced Homelessness with Their Family as Children
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Jemma Venables
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Discrimination against people who inject drugs: investigating health,wellbeing and coping strategies using a mixed-methods approach
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Caroline Salom
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
'LIVIN' THE DJ WAY': Aboriginal housing and health in Dajarra
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Paul Memmott
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