Dr Short has undertaken sociological research in a range of fields including impacts of natural disasters, health behaviour, formal and informal welfare relations, public-private partnerships, vulnerability, gender and development. Increasingly, her research has been focused upon household vulnerabilities and the political economy of livelihoods – around housing access in the Australian context, and microcredit and migration as major livelihood strategies in the developing world. Her recent research highlights the importance of understanding the impacts of shifting market-state-community relations in changing policy environments of the first world and globalising contexts of the developing world.
Dr Short has led a number of Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) projects, focused principally upon the housing experiences of vulnerable households in the private rental sector in Australia, and, working with postgraduate and research higher degree students, has supervised a range of projects focused upon gender, vulnerability and economic change in development contexts. These include, for example, studies of ethnic minority women’s participation in development projects in Central Vietnam, graduate transitions to new work environments in post Doi Moi Vietnam, the impacts of microcredit upon women’s empowerment and poverty in Bangladesh, and a study of the drivers and outcomes of international migration and remittances in two villages in Bangladesh.
Throughout her career, Dr Short has engaged in applied research with a policy focus, including major studies commissioned by the Commonwealth Government Social Welfare Commission, the Queensland Department of Transport, the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST), and for the Commonwealth Department of Families, Housing and Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA). She has a wealth of experience in supervising and mentoring early career academics, including research higher degree candidates, and in managing teams of junior and mid-career research staff in multi-site projects.
Journal Article: Social mobilisation, community engagement and the power of elites in rural development
Khan, Shahzad and Short, Patricia (2021). Social mobilisation, community engagement and the power of elites in rural development. Development in Practice, 31 (2), 238-247. doi: 10.1080/09614524.2020.1836127
Book Chapter: An overview of south-south migration: opportunities, risks and policies
Hossain, Moazzem, Khan, M. Adil and Short, Patricia (2017). An overview of south-south migration: opportunities, risks and policies. South-South Migration: Emerging Patterns, Opportunities and Risks. (pp. 1-10) edited by Short, Patricia, Khan, M. Adil and Hossain, Moazzem. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315198125-1
Book Chapter: Migration processes and impacts, and the emergence of a limited cyclical pattern of migration in rural Bangladesh
Hossain, Munshi Israil and Short, Patricia (2017). Migration processes and impacts, and the emergence of a limited cyclical pattern of migration in rural Bangladesh. South-South migration: emerging patterns, opportunities and risks. (pp. 98-122) edited by Patricia Short, M. Adil Khan and Moazzem Hossain. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315198125-6
(2018) Tenants QLD
Social Assessment of New Ireland Social Protection Program
(2014–2015) Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade
(2010–2012) Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited
(2021) Doctor Philosophy
The transition from institution to community-based mental health care in Queensland: A critical policy analysis
(2020) Doctor Philosophy
(2017) Doctor Philosophy
Undergraduate Students
A range of small-scale projects in the fields of health, housing and motherwork in vulnerable households.
Postgraduate Students
I am keen to support student-initiated projects, espcially small-scale, mixed-method approaches to research. Opportunities for post-graduate students may arise on currently funded research projects.
South-South Migration: Emerging Patterns, Opportunities and Risks
Patricia Short, Mozzem Hossain and M. Adil Khan eds. (2017). South-South Migration: Emerging Patterns, Opportunities and Risks. Routledge studies in development, mobilities, and migration, London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315198125
Home, school and community partnerships to support children's numeracy
Goos, M. E., Lincoln, D., Coco, A., Frid, S., Galbraith, P., Horne, M., Jolly, L., Kostogriz, A., Lowrie, T., Short, P. M. and Gholam, M. (2004). Home, school and community partnerships to support children's numeracy. Canberra, ACT Australia: Department of Education, Science and Training.
An overview of south-south migration: opportunities, risks and policies
Hossain, Moazzem, Khan, M. Adil and Short, Patricia (2017). An overview of south-south migration: opportunities, risks and policies. South-South Migration: Emerging Patterns, Opportunities and Risks. (pp. 1-10) edited by Short, Patricia, Khan, M. Adil and Hossain, Moazzem. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315198125-1
Hossain, Munshi Israil and Short, Patricia (2017). Migration processes and impacts, and the emergence of a limited cyclical pattern of migration in rural Bangladesh. South-South migration: emerging patterns, opportunities and risks. (pp. 98-122) edited by Patricia Short, M. Adil Khan and Moazzem Hossain. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315198125-6
Hossain, Munshi Israil, Khan, M. Adil and Short, Patricia (2013). Migration of Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia: emerging lessons of economic and social costs and benefits at the migrant, migrant household and community levels. The Asian Century, Sustainable Growth and Climate Change. (pp. 200-222) edited by Moazzem Hossain, Tapan Sarker and Malcolm McIntosh. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar. doi: 10.4337/9781781005750.00018
Mothers at the Margins: singular identities and survival
Short, Patricia (2005). Mothers at the Margins: singular identities and survival. Motherhood, Power and Oppression. (pp. 205-219) edited by Marie Porter, Patricia Short and Andrea O'Reilly. Toronto: Women's Press.
Social mobilisation, community engagement and the power of elites in rural development
Khan, Shahzad and Short, Patricia (2021). Social mobilisation, community engagement and the power of elites in rural development. Development in Practice, 31 (2), 238-247. doi: 10.1080/09614524.2020.1836127
Stirling, Nicole, Shaw, Sylvie and Short, Patricia (2014). Sifting, negotiating and remaking religious identities: A redefining of lived religion among Muslim migrant women. International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 4 (8 (1)), 17-29.
Overcoming adversity among low SES students: a study of strategies for retention
Karimshah, Ameera, Wyder, Marianne, Henman, Paul, Tay, Dwight, Capelin, Elizabeth and Short, Patricia (2013). Overcoming adversity among low SES students: a study of strategies for retention. Australian Universities' Review, 55 (2), 5-14.
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.
Can microcredit worsen poverty? Cases of exacerbated poverty in Bangladesh
Jahiruddin, A.T.M., Short, Patricia, Dressler, Wolfram and Khan, M.Adil (2011). Can microcredit worsen poverty? Cases of exacerbated poverty in Bangladesh. Development in Practice, 21 (8), 1109-1121. doi: 10.1080/09614524.2011.607155
Ambrose, Aleta and Short, Patricia (2009). Integrating health planning and social planning: A case study in community-based partnerships for better health. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 15 (4), 294-302. doi: 10.1071/PY09010
What are the housing tenure pathways of income support recipients over time?
Seelig, Tim, Han, Jung Hoon, O’Flaherty, Martin, Haynes, Michele, Western, Mark, Short, Trisch, Baum, Scott and Jones, Andrew (2008). What are the housing tenure pathways of income support recipients over time?. Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) Research and Policy Bulletin (103), 1-4.
Short, Patricia M., Seelig, Timothy G., Warren, Clive M. J., Susilawati, Connie and Thompson, Alice (2008). Risk-assessment practices in the private rental sector: Implications for low-income renters. Final Report. Final Report Series of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Final Report; 117, 1-74.
Short, Patricia, Seelig, Tim, Warren, Clive, Susilawati, Connie and Thompson, Alice (2007). Risk-assessment Practices in the Private Rental Sector: Implications for Low-income Renters. Poisitioning paper. Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Positioning Paper Series, Positioning Paper No. 100, 1-38.
Short, Patricia, Minnery, John, Mead, Elspeth, O'Flaherty, Martin and Peake, Andrew (2006). Tenancy databases, professional practices and housing access among low-income tenants in the private rental sector in Australia. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 30 (4), 930-943. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2006.00701.x
History and habit in the mobilization of ICT resources
Coco, Angela and Short, Patricia (2004). History and habit in the mobilization of ICT resources. Information Society, 20 (1), 39-51. doi: 10.1080/01972240490269997
Short, Patricia M. and Mutch, Allyson (2001). Exchange, reciprocity and citizenship – principles of access and the challenge to human rights in the third sector: An Australian perspective. Social Justice, 28 (4), 114-127.
Integrating technology to improve the efficiency of qualitative data analysis - A note on methods
Smith, C. D. and Short, P. M. (2001). Integrating technology to improve the efficiency of qualitative data analysis - A note on methods. Qualitative Sociology, 24 (3), 401-408-408. doi: 10.1023/A:1010643025038
Kinship, reciprocity and vulnerability: Social relations in the informal economy
Short P. (1996). Kinship, reciprocity and vulnerability: Social relations in the informal economy. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 31 (2), 127-145. doi: 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1996.tb01045.x
Arriving at interdisciplinarity
Jolly, L., Goos, M. E., Short, P. M. and Coco, A. (2004). Arriving at interdisciplinarity. AARE 2004 International Education Research Conference, Melbourne Vic, 28 November - 2 December 2004. AARE Inc..
Conceptualising, conducting and disseminating research for the public good
Short, P. M., Gholam, M., Goos, M. E. and Kostogriz, A. (2004). Conceptualising, conducting and disseminating research for the public good. AARE 2004 International Education Research Conference, Melbourne Vic, 28 November - 2 December 2004. AARE Inc..
Social assessment of New Ireland Social Protection Program
Short, Patricia and Were, Graeme (2015). Social assessment of New Ireland Social Protection Program.
Short, Patricia, Parsell, Cameron, Phillips, Rhonda, Seage, Nicola and James, Amity (2013). Bridging the divide: householder and service provider experiences of forced exits from private rental in Queensland. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute.
Housing consumption patterns and earnings behaviour of income support recipients over time
Seelig, Tim, Han, Jung Hoon, O'Flaherty, Martin, Short, Patricia, Haynes, Michele A., Baum, Scott William, Western, Mark C. and Jones, Andrew (2005). Housing consumption patterns and earnings behaviour of income support recipients over time. AHURI Positioning Papers Melbourne, Australia: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute.
Short, Patricia Margaret. (2004). Association, reciprocity, sharing and dependency : conditions of access and forms of inequality beyond the market state. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Qld.
Adkins, Barbara, Short, Patricia, Mead, Elspeth, Minnery, John, Owens, Rod and Heffernan, Maree (2003). Tenancy databases in the context of tenure management: Risk minimisation and tenant outcomes in the private rental sector. AHURI Positioning Paper series Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI).
Tenancy databases: risk minimisation and outcomes: final report
Short, Patricia, Minnery, John, Mead, Elspeth, Adkins, Barbara, Peake, Andrew, Fedrick, Debbie and O'Flaherty, Martin (2003). Tenancy databases: risk minimisation and outcomes: final report. Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) Final Reports Melbourne, VIC Australia: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute.
Short, Patricia Margaret (1989). The social organisation of vulnerability : a case study of the Moreton region floods of Australia Day, 1974. M.A. Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/192473
(2018) Tenants QLD
Social Assessment of New Ireland Social Protection Program
(2014–2015) Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade
(2010–2012) Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited
Risk assessment practices in the private rental sector
(2006–2007) Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited
(2004–2005) Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited
Home, School and Community Partnerships to Support Children's Numeracy
(2002–2003) Department of Education, Science, and Training
(2021) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
The transition from institution to community-based mental health care in Queensland: A critical policy analysis
(2020) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
(2017) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
(2017) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
(2015) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
(2014) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
Fit to be a Man: Women's Perspectives and Gender Relations among the Zeme Nagas of Assam.
(2013) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Industry Policy and Finance: Australia in the 1960s
(2010) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
(2009) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
(2020) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
(2013) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
(2012) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Risk and Power: Dengue and Its Prevention and Control in Urban Cambodia
(2011) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
MODEL VALIDITY OF PUBLISHED HOMEOPATHIC STUDIES
(2006) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
TRANSFORMATIVE POWER IN MOTHERWORK: A STUDY OF MOTHERING IN THE 1950s AND 1960s
(2006) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
STUDENT HOUSING
(2003) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Note for students: The possible research projects listed on this page may not be comprehensive or up to date. Always feel free to contact the staff for more information, and also with your own research ideas.
Undergraduate Students
A range of small-scale projects in the fields of health, housing and motherwork in vulnerable households.
Postgraduate Students
I am keen to support student-initiated projects, espcially small-scale, mixed-method approaches to research. Opportunities for post-graduate students may arise on currently funded research projects.