Shadow Care Infrastructures: Sustaining Life in a Post-Welfare City
About the project
This research explores the different kinds of support that make it possible to live in an expensive city like Sydney.
We want to talk to people in the following groups about how they get by:
- JobSeeker recipients
- Disability Support Pension recipients
- Parenting Payment Single
- Asylum Seekers
- People earning less than $650 per week and not receiving income support
We would like to speak to people aged 18-65 years
Share your story
If you are from one of these four groups and you live in the Cumberland or Parramatta regions*, we would like to hear from you.
Your story will help us make recommendations to organisations and the government to improve the support available to people who need it.
If you are interviewed, you will receive a gift voucher worth $50 to thank you for your time.
Please fill in the form below if you are interested in being involved:
What happens next?
Someone from the research team will contact you and ask you some questions to check if you fit the criteria of people we’d like to talk to. If you do, we will arrange a time and place to talk that suits you.
We will talk to you for about an hour. If you would like more time to tell your story, we can talk for up to 2 hours. We can talk face-to-face or via phone or Zoom.
Anything you tell us will be confidential and you will not be named in the write up of the research.
Who are we?
We are a team of researchers from Western Sydney University, the University of Newcastle, and the University of Melbourne.
A/Prof Emma Power (opens in a new window)
Dr Emma Mitchell (opens in a new window)
A/Prof Kathy Mee (opens in a new window)
A/Prof Ilan Wiesel (opens in a new window)
Please contact Emma Mitchell if you have any questions about being involved at e.mitchell@westernsydney.edu.au
* The Cumberland and Parramatta regions include suburbs like Auburn, Beecroft, Berala, Camellia, Carlingford, Chester Hill, Clyde, Constitution Hill, Dundas, Dundas Valley, Eastwood, Epping, Ermington, Fairfield, Girraween, Granville, Greystanes, Guildford, Guildford West, Harris Park, Holroyd, Homebush West, Lidcombe, Mays Hill, Melrose Park, Merrylands, Merrylands West, Newington, North Parramatta, North Rocks, Northmead, Oatlands, Old Toongabbie, Parramatta, Pemulwuy, Pendle Hill, Prospect, Regents Park, Rookwood, Rosehill, Rydalmere, Silverwater, Smithfield, South Granville, South Wentworthville, Silverwater, Sydney Olympic Park, Telopea, Toongabbie, Wentworth Point, Wentworthville, Westmead, Winston Hills, Westmead, Winston Hills, Woodpark and Yennora.
