Christine Eastman

Overview

Christine Eastman is a Senior Research Officer at the Social Policy Research Centre. Christine joined the SPRC in 2009 after working for several years in research, evaluation and advocacy roles within Government and non-government community organisations.

Christine's research experience crosses both quantitative and qualitative methodologies with a particular focus on survey and sampling design, data management and administrative dataset analysis and linkage.

Christine is currently completing a Master of Applied Statistics, and is a member of the Statistical Society of Australia.

Current and recent projects:

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• Managing the regional statistical and policy expert team for the analysis of Child Poverty and Deprivations in Kiribati (part of a global study for UNICEF)
  
• Analysing Centrelink administrative data for the evaluation of the New Income Management program (for the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs)
  
• Collection and analysis of employment data from Social and Community Services (SACS) providers in receipt of direct Commonwealth funding (for the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations)
  
• Analysing data related to the expansion of the residential determination program to place children and vulnerable families in community-based detention (for the Department of Immigration and Citizenship)
  

Research Summary

Current Research

Publications

Consultancy Reports

Cortis, N. and C. Eastman (2011) Employment arrangements in social and community services receiving Commonwealth direct funding, Final report for the Australian Government Pay Equity Taskforce, Department of Education, Employment
and Workplace Relations.

Gendera, S., Fisher, K.R., Robinson, S., Clements, N. and Eastman, C. (2011), Evaluation of the Self Directed Support Pilot Baseline Report' (PDF)(219 Kb), SPRC Report 6/11, for the Department of Communities, Disability and Community Care Services Queensland, December 2010, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Eastman, C., Newton, BJ., Rajkovic, M., and valentine, k. (2011), Linking Schools and Early Years Project Evaluation: Data collection Round 2 (PDF) (471 Kb),SPRC Report 2/11, report prepared for Centre for Community Child Health, submitted November 2010, published January 2011.

Hilferty, F., Mullan, K., van Gool, K., Chan, S., Eastman, C., Reeve, R., Haas, M., Griffiths, M. and Katz, I. (2010),
‘The Evaluation of Brighter Futures, NSW Community Services’ Early Intervention Program, Final Report’ (PDF) SPRC Report 13/10, prepared for Community Services, Department of Human Services, NSW. Published September 2010, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Hilferty, F., Eastman, C., Chan, S., Katz, I. and Cortis, N. (2010), Profiling non-government community service organisations in New South Wales (PDF)(638 Kb), SPRC Report 12/10, prepared for Ageing, Disability and Home Care, NSW Department of Human Services, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, November 2010, Sydney.

Hilferty, F., Cortis, N., Eastman, C. and Katz, I. Profiling non-government community services organisations in NSW: A summary report (PDF)(195 Kb). SPRC Report 08/10, prepared for Ageing, Disability and Home Care, Department of Human Services. University of New South Wales. Published July 2010 Sydney.

Hilferty, F., Mullan, K., Eastman, C., Griffiths, M., Chan, S., Heese, K. and Katz, I., Brighter Futures Early Intervention Evaluation: Interim Report 3 (PDF)(1 Mb), SPRC Report 3/10, prepared for Community Services, Department of Human Services, NSW, Published April 2010 Sydney.

Eastman, C. (2006), Home and Community Care Volunteer Services in Nepean and Cumberland/Prospect, report prepared for the NSW Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care, WSCF, November 2006.

Eastman, C., and WSCF (2005) Making Great Interagencies, Networks and Forums, report prepared for Western Sydney Community Forum 2005