Our Research
We have engaged with Dr Martin Drum from Notre Dame University in Fremantle to prepare annual overview document that will provide data to support our strategic direction in social outreach services. The data will be used to assist us in judgements in areas of the following:
- The overall need for new social outreach agencies/activities
- The capacity to reduce or redirect existing social outreach agencies/activities
- Identifying duplication of social outreach activities
- The opportunity to partner with the ‘Independent’ Archdiocesan agencies that are delivering similar outreach activities.
Dr Martin Drum
Senior Lecturer, Politics and International Relations BA (Hons) ANU; PhD UWA
Dr Martin Drum is Director of Public Policy and Associate Professor, Politics and International Relations at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle. He has co-authored two reports for the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth, entitled Poverty, Homelessness and Migrants and Western Australia’s Prison Population 2020: Challenges and Reforms. Dr Drum researches, publishes and commentates on WA and Federal elections; he has also made submissions to a range of parliamentary inquiries on these issues.