Researcher

Professor Ilan Katz

My Expertise

Research interests include social policy, evaluation of complex family and community interventions, family support, child protection, families and communities, race, culture and ethnicity, migration, international comparisons of child welfare systems and policy, parenting, mental health and youth justice.

Keywords

Fields of Research (FoR)

Social policy, People with disability, Social program evaluation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child health and wellbeing, Social work, Social Policy, Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation and Social Impact Assessment, Family and Household Studies, Care for Disabled, Migration, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

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Biography

Professor Katz joined SPRC in January 2005. He has many years of policy, practice and research experience in children and family services in the UK. He started his career as a social worker and manager, working in several local authorities and NGOs in London. He was head of Evaluation, Practice development and Research at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. After spending some time as a civil servant he returned to...view more

Professor Katz joined SPRC in January 2005. He has many years of policy, practice and research experience in children and family services in the UK. He started his career as a social worker and manager, working in several local authorities and NGOs in London. He was head of Evaluation, Practice development and Research at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. After spending some time as a civil servant he returned to research to become Deputy Director of the Policy Research Bureau. 

His research interests include evaluation of complex interventions,  parenting, child protection, youth justice, prevention and family support, children, families and communities, comparative child welfare systems, migration, race and ethnicity. He was Chief Investigator of the National Evaluation of the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy and Brighter Futures, NSW Department of Community Services Early Intervention Program and he is currently CI on the evaluations of New Income Management, the Family Support Program and the Community Detention program and 'Where's the Evidence in Indigenous Social Policy, an ARC linkage project.


My Grants

Evaluation of the Early Intervention Evidence and Evaluation (EIEE) Fund

2019-2020

NSW DCJ

Residents’ views of care in Australian residential institutions

2019-2020

Royal Commission into Age Care

Evaluation of 3 wraparound initiatives

2020

TFM – DCJ

Children with disability in the Pathways of Care Longitudinal study

2020

DCJ

Evaluation of headspace

2020-2021

Dept of Health

Restoration of Aboriginal Children in PoCLS

2020

DCJ

Baseline study of current and future availability of Ex-Service Organisation Advocacy services

2020-2021

DVA

Evaluation of the Home and Healthy Program

2020-2025

NSW DCJ

Evaluation of the Together Home Program

2021-2023

NSW DCJ

Evaluation of Sustaining NSW Families

2021-2023

NSW Health


My Qualifications

BA (Social Work) Witwatersrand University (Johannesburg), PhD Brunel University, London


My Engagement

Centre Director


My Teaching

HDR Supervision: Ilan Katz is keen to supervise Higher Degree Research candidates with an interest in social policy, evidence based policy, Evaluation, parenting, family, child protection, mental health, youth justice, community, migration, race, culture, migration, ethnicity, social inclusion, poverty, international welfare comparison

Professor Katz currently supervises: Meredith Nirui, and Timothy Broady.

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Location

204 Goodsell Building

Contact

+61 2 9385 7810
+61 2 9065 9822