Professor Cameron Parsell
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Cameron Parsell

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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
Media expert

Fields of research

Applied sociology, program evaluation and social impact assessment Human Society Policy and administration Social change Social program evaluation Social theory Social work Sociology Urban sociology and community studies

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • Addressing Poverty

  • Welfare State

  • Charity

  • Identity

  • Homelessness

  • Qualitative and ethnographic research

Search Professor Cameron Parsell’s works on UQ eSpace

193 works between 2008 and 2025
All (193) Journal Article (95) Book Chapter (2) Conference Publication (10) Book (3) Other Outputs (83)

181 - 193 of 193 works

2012

Conference Publication

Ending rough sleeping: Sydney's Way2Home and Brisbane's Street to Home programs

Parsell, Cameron and Davis, Kristen (2012). Ending rough sleeping: Sydney's Way2Home and Brisbane's Street to Home programs. Homelessness Research Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 19-20 April 2012.

Ending rough sleeping: Sydney's Way2Home and Brisbane's Street to Home programs

2012

Journal Article

Response to Ann Coleman: Context, context, context: A commentary on responding to people sleeping rough: Dilemmas and opportunities for social work

Parsell, Cameron (2012). Response to Ann Coleman: Context, context, context: A commentary on responding to people sleeping rough: Dilemmas and opportunities for social work. Australian Social Work, 65 (2), 280-285. doi: 10.1080/0312407X.2012.674540

Response to Ann Coleman: Context, context, context: A commentary on responding to people sleeping rough: Dilemmas and opportunities for social work

2012

Conference Publication

Street to home: How to end rough sleeping?

Parsell, Cameron and Davis, Kristen (2012). Street to home: How to end rough sleeping?. 6th Australasian Housing Researchers' Conference (AHRC12), Adelaide, Australia, 8-10 February 2012.

Street to home: How to end rough sleeping?

2011

Other Outputs

Service users: a baseline report on Brisbane's Street to Home program

Parsell, Cameron, Davis, Kristen and Tomaszewski, Wojtek (2011). Service users: a baseline report on Brisbane's Street to Home program. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland.

Service users: a baseline report on Brisbane's Street to Home program

2011

Journal Article

Homeless identities: enacted and ascribed

Parsell, Cameron (2011). Homeless identities: enacted and ascribed. British Journal of Sociology, 62 (3), 442-461. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01373.x

Homeless identities: enacted and ascribed

2011

Journal Article

Responding to people sleeping rough: Dilemmas and opportunities for social work

Parsell, Cameron (2011). Responding to people sleeping rough: Dilemmas and opportunities for social work. Australian Social Work, 64 (3), 330-345. doi: 10.1080/0312407X.2010.538705

Responding to people sleeping rough: Dilemmas and opportunities for social work

2011

Journal Article

Bridging the Divide: the experiences of low-income households excluded from the private rental sector in Australia

Short, Patricia , Parsell, Cameron , Phillips, Rhonda and Seage, Nicola (2011). Bridging the Divide: the experiences of low-income households excluded from the private rental sector in Australia. AHURI Positioning Paper, i-28.

Bridging the Divide: the experiences of low-income households excluded from the private rental sector in Australia

2011

Journal Article

Assertive outreach

Phillips, Rhonda, Parsell, Cameron, Seage, Nicola and Memmott, Paul (2011). Assertive outreach. AHURI Positioning Paper, 136, i-41.

Assertive outreach

2010

Journal Article

"Homeless is what I am, not who I am": Insights from an inner-city Brisbane study

Parsell, Cameron (2010). "Homeless is what I am, not who I am": Insights from an inner-city Brisbane study. Urban Policy and Research, 28 (2), 181-194. doi: 10.1080/08111141003793966

"Homeless is what I am, not who I am": Insights from an inner-city Brisbane study

2010

Other Outputs

An ethnographic study of the day-to-day lives and identities of people who are homeless in Brisbane

Cameron Parsell (2010). An ethnographic study of the day-to-day lives and identities of people who are homeless in Brisbane. PhD Thesis, School of Social Work and Human Services, The University of Queensland.

An ethnographic study of the day-to-day lives and identities of people who are homeless in Brisbane

2010

Conference Publication

"This is not my home, this is council land": The meaning and aspirations of home for those without one.

Parsell, Cameron (2010). "This is not my home, this is council land": The meaning and aspirations of home for those without one.. 4th Australasian Housing Researchers Conference (AHRC 2009), Sydney, NSW, Australia, 5-7 August 2009. Kensington, NSW, Australia: City Futures Research Centre.

"This is not my home, this is council land": The meaning and aspirations of home for those without one.

2009

Conference Publication

Problematising the ‘homeless identity’: considering people their homelessness

Cameron Parsell (2009). Problematising the ‘homeless identity’: considering people their homelessness. 3rd Australasian Housing Researchers’ Conference, Melbourne, 18-20 June 2008. Melbourne: RMIT.

Problematising the ‘homeless identity’: considering people their homelessness

2008

Journal Article

Book Review: TOGETHER ALONE: PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN PUBLIC PLACES Calvin Morrill, David A. Snow and Cindy H. White (eds) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, 305 pp

Parsell, Cameron (2008). Book Review: TOGETHER ALONE: PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN PUBLIC PLACES Calvin Morrill, David A. Snow and Cindy H. White (eds) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, 305 pp. Journal of Sociology, 44 (3), 306-307. doi: 10.1177/14407833080440030604

Book Review: TOGETHER ALONE: PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN PUBLIC PLACES Calvin Morrill, David A. Snow and Cindy H. White (eds) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, 305 pp

Current funding

  • 2024 - 2025
    Validation of AHVTT
    MICAH PROJECTS LTD
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2025
    Evaluation of the Extended Post Care Support Program
    Queensland Department of Child Safety, Seniors and Disability Services
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2025
    QMHC Tenant Engagement
    Queensland Mental Health Commission
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2028
    Research evidence in the not-for-profit sector and consumer-driven change
    ARC Mid-Career Industry Fellowships
    Open grant
  • 2023 - 2026
    St Vincent de Paul Queensland evidence research partnership
    St Vincent de Paul Society Queensland
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2026
    ALIVE - A National Research Translation Centre to implement Mental Health Care at Scale (NHMRC Special Initiative in Mental Health Grant, admin: UMelb)
    University of Melbourne
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2027
    ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course
    ARC Centres of Excellence
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2024
    Australian Homelessness Monitor 2024 (Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation grant administered by UNSW)
    University of New South Wales
    Open grant
  • 2023
    Photovoice and service user driven transformations
    Anglicare Southern Queensland
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2023
    Keeping Families Together Evaluation 2022
    Micah Projects Inc
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2023
    Ten Year Empirical Review of Tenancies at Common Ground Queensland
    Micah Projects Inc
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2023
    Investigative Panel into building and retaining an effective homelessness sector workforce (AHURI funded project administered by Curtin University)
    Curtin University
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2023
    Foodbank QLD: State of food poverty and its solutions (Foodbank Queensland Limited funded project administered by QUT)
    Queensland University of Technology
    Open grant
  • 2022
    Australian Homelessness Monitor 2022 (Launch Housing grant administered by UNSW)
    University of New South Wales
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2023
    An empirical investigation of the St Vincent de Paul Society Park Hotel Homelessness Trial
    St Vincent de Paul Society Queensland
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2023
    Homelessness Systems, Pathways and Experiences
    Micah Projects Inc
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2021
    Parents as Teachers: Permanent Supportive Housing
    Micah Projects Inc
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2024
    Waithood: The experience of being on the social housing waiting list (ARC Linkage led by University of Technology Sydney)
    University of Technology Sydney
    Open grant
  • 2020
    Australian Homelessness Monitor 2020 (Launch Housing Limited, administered by University of New South Wales)
    University of New South Wales
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2023
    St Vincent de Paul Queensland: Systematic Empirical Investigation, 2020 - 2023
    St Vincent de Paul Society Queensland
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2023
    Feeding Families in Tough Times (Children's Hospital Foundation grant)
    Queensland University of Technology
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2021
    Queensland Housing Strategy 2017 - 2027 Research and Evaluation Program
    Queensland Department of Housing and Public Works
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2020
    Evaluation of the Next Step Home - Women on Parole Pilot
    Queensland Department of Housing and Public Works
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2024
    Transforming charity to reduce persistent poverty
    ARC Future Fellowships
    Open grant
  • 2019
    Examination of 139 Club and inner Brisbane service system
    Queensland Department of Housing and Public Works
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2019
    Addressing deep poverty in Australia: the function, role, and impact of charity and social services
    UQ Development Fellowships
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2019
    A Transformational Hotel School for the Homeless
    The Salvation Army (Queensland) Property Trust
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2020
    Evaluation - Recovery focused residential care
    Queensland Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women
    Open grant
  • 2018
    ACT Housing Cohort Study
    Housing ACT
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2019
    St VIncent de Paul and ISSR Research Partnership
    St Vincent de Paul Society Queensland
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2018
    Financial Management Services Review
    Commonwealth Department of Social Services
    Open grant
  • 2017
    Housing Services Gap Analysis
    Queensland Treasury Corporation
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2018
    Analysis of the Pindari Model
    The Salvation Army (Queensland) Property Trust
    Open grant
  • 2017
    Financial Wellbeing and Capability Activity Evaluation Framework
    Commonwealth Department of Social Services
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2018
    Service User Experiences of Service Integration and Referrals (Queensland Mental Health Commission)
    Queensland Mental Health Commission
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2017
    The Development of an Australian Homelessness Monitor
    University of New South Wales
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2017
    Evaluation of Multidisciplinary Street to Home Model: Cairns
    Queensland Department of Housing and Public Works
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2017
    Evaluation Framework for the Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Strategy (2016-26)
    Queensland Department of the Premier and Cabinet
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2017
    St Vincent de Paul Research
    St Vincent de Paul Society Queensland
    Open grant
  • 2016
    Evaluation of the Brisbane Common Ground integrated nursing services
    Micah Projects Inc
    Open grant
  • 2016
    Families Interacting with Formal Services: A Scoping Study
    Queensland Department of Housing and Public Works
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2017
    Mental Health Demonstration Project Evaluation
    Queensland Department of Housing and Public Works
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2019
    Social futures and life pathways of young people in Queensland: Waves 6 and 7 (ARC Discovery Project administered by ACU University)
    Monash University
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2018
    Exiting homelessness and sustaining housing
    ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
    Open grant
  • 2015
    Urban renewal in a reconfigured public housing system: Commencing a longitudinal study of the Logan renewal initiative
    UQ Collaboration and Industry Engagement Fund - FirstLink
    Open grant
  • 2014
    Review of systemic issues for social housing clients with complex needs
    Queensland Mental Health Commission
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2015
    Evaluation of the Brisbane Common Ground Initiative
    Queensland Department of Housing and Public Works
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2014
    An evaluation of the nature and effectiveness of models of supportive housing
    Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited
    Open grant
  • 2013
    Older Women's Pathways out of Homelessness in Australia
    The Mercy Foundation Limited
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2015
    'Ending Homelessness': Analysis of Innovative Strategies to Reduce Homelessness
    UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2013
    Preventing first time homelessness amongst older Australians
    Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2014
    Evaluation of the Street to Home Initiative
    UniQuest Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2014
    Breaking the cycle of homelessness: An identity change approach to enhance resilience and well-being
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2013
    An examination of the nature, experiences and effectiveness of Brisbane's Common Ground supported congregated housing for people exiting homelessness
    UQ FirstLink Scheme
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2013
    Housing - Housing Assistance and Homelessness Prevention
    Commonwealth Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2012
    Bridging the divide: the experiences of low-income households excluded from the private rental sector in Australia
    Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2011
    The role of 'Assertive Outreach' in addressing primary homelessness
    Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2013
    AHURI Queensland Research Centre: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited
    Open grant

Availability

Professor Cameron Parsell is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Social Identity in Aotearoa NZ today

    Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Learning from lived experience: Consumer Participation in Specialist Homelessness Services

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ella Kuskoff

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Research evidence in the not-for-profit sector and consumer-driven change

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Ella Kuskoff

  • 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

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The Social Impact of Social Impact Evaluation: A Meta-Evaluation

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Cassandra Chapman

  • 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

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Deconstructing the charitable triad: Raising beneficiary voices to be heard alongside donors and fundraisers

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Cassandra Chapman

  • 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

  • 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

Completed supervision

Enquiries

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  • Homelessness
  • poverty
  • social services
  • social welfare

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