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Books

Adamson E, 2017, Nannies, migration and early childhood education and care An international comparison of in-home childcare policy and practice, Policy Press, Bristol

Book Chapters

Hamilton M; Timonen V; Craig L; Adamson E, 2023, 'Policies for Active Aging and Their Family-Related Assumptions and Consequences', in The Oxford Handbook of Family Policy Over the Life Course, pp. 998 - 1014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197518151.013.47

Cortis N; Blaxland M; Adamson E, 2022, 'Quality and marketised care: The case of family day care', in Meagher G; Stebbing A; Perche D (ed.), Designing Social Service Markets: Risk, Regulation and Rent-Seeking, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 39 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/DSSM.2022

Cortis N; Blaxland M; Adamson E, 2022, 'Quality and marketised care: The case of family day care', in Designing Social Service Markets: Risk, Regulation and Rent-Seeking, ANU Press, pp. 39 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/dssm.2022.01

Adamson E, 2020, 'Gender', in Ellison N; Haux T (ed.), Handbook on Society and Social Policy, Edward Elgar Publishing

Adamson E, 2020, 'Gender', in Handbook on Society and Social Policy, pp. 87 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781788113526.00013

Adamson E; Brennan D, 2018, 'Care and Migration', in Handbook on gender and social policy, Edward Elgar, pp. 253 - 266, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781785367168

Adamson EA, 2017, 'Crossing Boundaries: In-home childcare and migration in Canada', in Caring for Children Social Movements and Public Policy in Canada, UBC Press, pp. 187 - 207

Brennan D; Adamson EA, 2017, 'Early Education and Child Care Policy in Australia', in Grace R; Hodge K; McMahon C (ed.), Children, Families and Communities, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 318 - 336

Brennan D; Charlesworth S; Adamson EA; Cortis N, 2017, 'Out of Kilter: Changing Care, Migration and Employment Regimes in Australia', in Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care: A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 143 - 165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55086-2_7

Brennan DJ; Adamson E, 2012, 'Child Care and Australian Social Policy', in Bowes J; Grace R (ed.), Children, Families and Communities, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 205 - 218

Brennan DJ; Adamson E, 2012, 'Early childhood education and care policy', in Bowes J; Grace R; Hodge K (ed.), Children, families, communities: contexts and consequences, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 255 - 270

Edited Books

Perche D; Meagher G; Stebbing A, (eds.), 2022, Designing social service markets: Risk, regulation and rent-seeking, ANU Press, Canberra, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/DSSM.2022

Journal articles

Hamilton M; Kintominas A; Adamson E, 2024, 'Childcare by migrant nannies and migrant grannies: A critical discourse analysis of new policy solutions for securing reproductive labor in Australian households', Gender, Work and Organization, 31, pp. 1290 - 1311, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12749

Craig L; Lee DJ; Hamilton M; Timonen V; Adamson E, 2024, 'Gender and educational patterns in the demand and supply of grandparent childcare in Australia', Australian Journal of Social Issues, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.366

Adamson E; Skattebol J, 2023, 'Pockets of promise: exploring innovation and complexity of remote ECEC service delivery in Australia', Frontiers in Education, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1233372

Skattebol J; Adamson E; Blaxland M, 2023, 'Serving families who face economic and related adversities: the ‘5 As’ of effective ECEC service delivery', Frontiers in Education, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1182615

Rung DL; Adamson E, 2022, 'Renegotiating Roles as Fathers and Workers : Exploring the Experiences of Migrant and Refugee Men in Australia', International Journal of Mens Social and Community Health, 5, pp. e1 - e14, http://dx.doi.org/10.22374/ijmsch.v5iSP2.77

Naldini M; Adamson E; Hamilton M, 2022, 'Migrant families' access to ECEC and family policies: The Australian and Italian case compared', Frontiers in Sociology, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.894284

Adamson E; Smith JA; Clifford S; Wallace T, 2021, 'Understanding the secondary supply of alcohol as a wicked policy problem: The unique case of the Banned Drinker Register in the Northern Territory', Australian Journal of Public Administration, 80, pp. 283 - 299, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12471

Adamson E; Clifford S; Wallace T; Smith JA, 2021, 'Industry views about the Banned Drinker Register in the Northern Territory: Early lessons from a qualitative evaluation', Drug and Alcohol Review, 40, pp. 210 - 219, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13174

Hamilton M; Hill E; Adamson E, 2021, 'A ‘career shift’? Bounded agency in migrant employment pathways in the aged care and early childhood education and care sectors in Australia', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47, pp. 3059 - 3079, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1684246

Clifford S; Smith JA; Adamson E; Wallace T; Adamson E, 2020, 'Do alcohol price control measures adequately consider the health of very remote Australians?: Minimum Unit Price in the Northern Territory', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 44, pp. 260 - 261, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12994

Adamson E; Smith JA, 2020, 'Exploring the links between fathering, masculinities and health and well-being for migrant fathers: Implications for policy and practice', International Journal of Men's Social and Community Health, 3, pp. e58 - e65, http://dx.doi.org/10.22374/ijmsch.v3i2.36

Graham A; Bessell S; Adamson E; Truscott J; Simmons C; Thomas N; Gardon L; Johnson A, 2019, 'Navigating the ambiguous policy landscape of student participation', Journal of Education Policy, 34, pp. 789 - 811, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2018.1527945

Brennan D; Adamson E, 2018, 'Care and migration', , http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781785367168.00020

Adamson EA; Cortis N; Brennan D; Charlesworth S, 2017, 'Social care and migration policy in Australia: Emerging intersections?', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 52, pp. 78 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.1

Adamson EA; Brennan D, 2016, 'Return of the Nanny: Public Policy towards In-home Childcare in the UK, Canada and Australia', Social Policy and Administration: an international journal of policy and research, 51, pp. 1386 - 1405, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spol.12250

Skattebol J; Adamson E; Woodrow C, 2016, 'Revisioning professionalism from the periphery', Early Years, 36, pp. 116 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2015.1121975

Adamson EA; Brennan D, 2014, 'Social investment or private profit? Diverging notions of 'investment' in early childhood education and care', International Journal of Early Childhood, 46, pp. 47 - 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13158-013-0098-x

Hamilton M; Adamson E, 2012, 'Bounded agency in young carers' lifecourse-stage domains and transitions', Journal of Youth Studies, 16, pp. 101 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2012.710743

Whiteford P; Redmond G; Adamson E, 2011, 'Middle Class Welfare in Australia: How has the Distribution of Cash Benefits changed since the 1980s?', Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 14, pp. 81 - 102, http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=556711210676386;res=IELBUS

Conference Papers

Adamson EA, 2013, 'Debates and inequalities surrounding In-home child care in Australia, the UK and Canada: Implications for the recognition of care workers', University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, presented at Australian Social Policy Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 16 September 2013 - 18 September 2013

Adamson EA, 2013, 'Comparative In-home child care policy in Australia, the UK and Canada: Intersecting inequalities and implications for the recognition of care workers', Budapest, Hungary, presented at Research Committee 19: Social exclusion and the challenges of inclusion: social policies addressing intersecting inequalities, Budapest, Hungary, 22 August 2013 - 24 August 2013

Adamson EA, 2013, 'Contradictions between discourse and policy? Comparing In-home child care in Australia, the UK and Canada', University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, presented at Changes and Challenges in a Globalising World: First International Community, Work and Family Conference, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 17 July 2013 - 19 July 2013

Conference Presentations

Hamilton M; Adamson E; Kintominas A, 2019, 'Migrant nannies and migrant grannies: new migration pathways and in-home childcare in Australia', presented at Australian Social Policy Conference, UNSW Sydney, 09 September 2019 - 11 September 2019

Adamson E; Brennan D; Cortis N, 2015, 'Social policy, care and migration in Australia: Lock step or out of step?', presented at Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand, 03 February 2015 - 05 February 2015

Adamson E, 2014, 'Reshaping care work in the home: the case of in-home child care in Australia, the UK and Canada', presented at Work and Family Researchers Network, New York, NY, 19 June 2014 - 21 June 2014

Adamson E, 2014, 'Competing pressures, actors and interests in ECEC: Comparing the origins of in-home child care in Australia, the UK and Canada', presented at Social Sciences and Humanities Congress 2014 (Canadian Sociological Association), Brock University, St Catherines, Ontario, 26 May 2014 - 30 May 2014

Conference Abstracts

Adamson E; Clifford S; Wallace T; Smith JA, 2019, 'BACK TO THE FUTURE: EVALUATION FINDINGS FROM THE REINTRODUCTION OF BANNED DRINKER REGISTER IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY', in DRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEW, WILEY, Vol. 38, pp. S16 - S17, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000494890100042&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Smith JA; Whetton S; D'Abbs P; Adamson E; Clifford S; Wallace T; Stephens D-M; Van de Ven K; Mellor R; Stevens M; Dyall D; Christie B; Ritter A; Thorn M, 2019, 'SYMPOSIUM: ALCOHOL HARM MINIMISATION IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY: BUILDING CONTEXTUAL EVIDENCE TO INFORM POLICY AND PRACTICE CHANGE', in DRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEW, WILEY, Vol. 38, pp. S16 - S16, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000494890100040&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Reports

Adamson E; Katz I; Gendera S; Smyth C, 2023, Evaluation of SDN Beranga Autism-Specific Preschool: Final Report, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW, Sydney, https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/sprc/our-projects/Evaluation-of-SDN-Beranga-Autism-specific-Preschool

Cortis N; Blaxland M; Adamson E, 2022, Counting the Costs: Sustainable funding for the ACT community services sector, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28163, https://www.actcoss.org.au/sites/default/files/public/publications/2021-report-Counting-the-Costs_1.pdf

Naidoo Y; valentine K; Adamson E, 2022, Australian Experiences of Poverty: Risk Precarity and Uncertainity during COVID-19, Australian Council of Social Service and UNSW, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28524, https://povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au/australian-experiences-of-poverty/

Skattebol J; Blaxland M; Adamson E, 2021, The Five Aspects of Effective Engagement in Early Childhood Education: Approachability, Acceptability, Availability, Affordability, Appropriateness, UNSW Social Policy Research Centre, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/5fa0c6861b8af

Hamilton M; Hodgson H; Bradbury B; Ip M; Adamson E; Van Toorn G, 2020, Security in old age for older single women without children, https://www.sydney.edu.au/content/dam/corporate/documents/business-school/research/women-work-leadership/security-in-old-age-for-older-single-women-without-children-report.pdf

Saunders P; Bedford M; Brown J; Naidoo Y; Adamson E, 2018, Material Deprivation and Social Exclusion Among Young Australians: A child-focused approach, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/5bd2aacfb0112

Blaxland M; Adamson E, 2017, Comparative Perspectives on Family Day Care: Structure, Regulation, and Research Gaps, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, 06/17, http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/53/590152eadb59f, https://www.sprc.unsw.edu.au/media/SPRCFile/Comparative_Perspectives_final.pdf

Blaxland M; Adamson EA; Cortis N, 2016, Perspectives on quality in Australian family day care, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Australia, Sydney, 01/16, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/25826, http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/unsworks_38896

Wilczynski A; Lo S; Gendera S; Adamson E; Purcal C; Fisher KR, 2015, Evaluation of the Community Justice Program: Final Evalution Report


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