Dr Roger Patulny

Overview

Roger Patulny BA(Hons)/BEc, ANU, PhD UNSW, is an Australian Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW. He has completed doctoral research on the links between welfare and society, with a focus on the social norms, connections and activities that together comprise a nation's stock of social capital. He has published widely on the subject of social capital, and related topics including volunteering and trust, and has recently held a position at the University of Surrey, UK, researching social and political trust in the UK and Europe.

Research Summary

His present research interests include the trends, meanings, and emotional qualities concerned with social connection, social capital and social cohesion, and the links between these qualities and changes in social policy, demography, life-course transitions and population ageing, and mental health.

Publications

Books
Patulny, R., Society Building Welfare, Time and Social Capital, VDM Verlag, Saarbrueken.

Book chapter
Allum, N., Patulny, R., Sturgis, P, and Read, S. ‘Re-evaluating the links between social trust, institutional trust and civic association’, in Stillwell, J.; Norman, P.; Thomas, C.; Surridge, P. (eds.), Spatial and Social Disparities Volume II: Understanding Population Trends and Processes, Springer Verlag, 199-215.

Recent Journal Articles
Patulny, R. (2010), 'Social trust, social partner time and television time, Social Indicators Research, Published online: Jul 13, 10.1007/s11205-010-9649-9.

Patulny, R. (2009), ‘The golden years? Social isolation among retired men and women in Australia’, Family Matters, 83, 39-49

Patulny, R., and Svendsen G. (2007), 'The social capital grid: bonding, bridging, qualitative, quantitative, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 27 (1/2), 32-51.

Patulny, R. (2005), 'Social rights and social capital: welfare and co-operation in complex global society, Australian Review of Public Affairs, 6 (1), 1-17.

Patulny, R. and Norris, K. (2005), Sustaining interest: are green values converting to votes?, International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment, 1 (3/4) 296-310.

Saunders, P., Patulny, R., and Lee, A. (2005), 'Benchmarking the living standards of older Australians using budget standards', The Australasian Journal on Ageing, 24 (3), 146-52.

Fisher, K., Patulny, R., Bittman, M. (2004), 'Measuring volunteering in Australia using time diary and annual participation estimates', Australian Journal of Volunteering, 9 (2), 25-35.

Patulny, R. (2004), 'Bonding, bridging and investment: important aspects of a national social capital policy strategy', Melbourne Journal of Politics, 29, 68-80.

Audera, C., Patulny, R., Sander, B.H., and Douglas, R. M. (2001), 'Mega-dose Vitamin C in the treatment of common cold; a randomized controlled trial', The Medical Journal of Australia, 175, 359-362.

Book Chapter
Patulny, R. (2009), 'The sociability of nations: international comparisons in bonding, bridging and linking social capital', in Svendsen G.T. and Svendsen, G.L.H., (ed), 'Handbook of Social Capital: The Troika of Sociology, Political Science and Economics', Edward Elgar, 402-427.

Recent Reports
Cashmore, J., Parkinson, P., Weston, R., Patulny, R., Redmond, G., Qu, L., Baxter, J. Rajkovic, M. Sitek, T. and Katz, I. (2010), Shared Care Parenting Arrangements since the 2006 Family Law Reforms, report to the Australian Government Attorney-General’s Department Sydney; Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales.

Muir, K., Powell, A., Patulny, R., Flaxman, S., McDermott, S., Oprea, I. Gendera, S., Vespignani, J., Sitek, T., Abello, D., Katz, I. (2009), ‘Headspace evaluation report, Independent evaluation of headspace: the National Youth Mental Health Foundation', SPRC Report 19/09, November 2009.

Muir, K., Katz, I., Purcal, C., Patulny, R., Flaxman, S., Abello, D., Cortis, N., Thomson, C., Oprea, I., Wise, S., Edwards, B., Gray, M., and Hayes, A. (2009), National evaluation (2004–2008) of the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy 2004–2009, (published as FaHCSIA Occasional Paper No. 24, Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia).

Muir, K., McDermott, S., Gendera, S., Flaxman, S., Patulny, R., Sitek, T., Abello, D., Oprea, I., and Katz, I. (2009), Independent evaluation of headspace: the National Youth Mental Health Foundation - Interim Evaluation Report, SPRC Report 5/09, report prepared for headspace: National Youth Mental Health Foundation, The University of Melbourne.

Cortis, N., Katz, I. and Patulny, R. (2009), ‘Engaging hard-to-reach families and children', FaHCSIA Occasional Paper No. 26, Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia.

Edwards, B., Wise, S., Gray, M., Hayes, A., Katz, I, Misson, S., Patulny, R. and Muir, K. (2009), ‘Stronger Families in Australia study: the impact of communities for children', FaHCSIA Occasional Paper No. 25, Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia.

Muir, K., Katz, I., Purcal, C., Patulny, R., Flaxman, S., Abello, D., Cortis, N., Thomson, C., Oprea, I., Wise, S., Edwards, B., Gray, M., and Hayes, A. (2009), ‘National evaluation (2004–2008) of the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy 2004–2009’, Appendix A: Local answers progress reports summary (PDF), SPRC Report, prepared for the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.

Cortis, N., Purcal, C., Patulny, R., Thompson, D. and Oprea, I. (2009), National evaluation (2004–2008) of the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy 2004–2009, Appendix B: Invest to Grow evaluation and progress reports summary, SPRC Report, prepared for the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.

Patulny, R., Flaxman, S., Purcal, C., Muir, K., Oprea, I. and Longden, T. (with assistance from the SFCS consortium) (2009), National evaluation (2004–2008) of the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy 2004–2009, Appendix C: CfC Service Coordination Study, SPRC Report, prepared for the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.

Patulny, R., Oprea, I. and Muir, K. (with assistance from the SFCS consortium) (2009), National evaluation (2004–2008) of the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy 2004–2009, Appendix D: CfC Program and Effects, SPRC Report, prepared for the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

Muir, K., Katz, I., Purcal, C., Patulny, R., Flaxman, S., Abello, D., Cortis, N., Thomson, C., Oprea, I. Wise, S., Edwards, B., Gray, M., and Hayes, A. (2009), ‘National evaluation (2004–2008) of the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy 2004–2009’, Appendix F: SFCS evaluation instruments (PDF), SPRC Report, prepared for the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.

Muir, K., McDermott, S., Katz, I., Patulny, R., Flaxman, S., Gendera, S. (2008), 'Independent Evaluation of headspace: the National Youth Mental Health Foundation: Evaluation plan, SPRC 20/08, prepared for headspace: National Youth Mental Health Foundation, The University of Melbourne, November 2008.

Thomson, C., valentine, k., and Patulny, R., and Fisher, K.R. (2006), Understanding the Local Service Network Project (PDF), SPRC Report 6/06, report prepared for The Cabinet Office, New South Wales

Fisher, K.R. and Patulny, R. (2004), 'Impact of staff ratios on under 2 year olds in children's services (PDF)', SPRC Report 11/04, report prepared for the National Association of Community Based Children's Services (NSW), Early Childhood Australia (NSW) Local Government Children's Services Association (NSW) and Community Child Care Cooperative (NSW).

Saunders, P., Patulny, R., and Lee, A. (2004), 'Updating and extending indicative budget standards for older Australians (PDF), SPRC Report 2/04, report prepared for the Association of Superannuation Funds Australia..

SPRC Discussion Papers
Patulny, R., 'Social capital and welfare: dependency or division? Examining bridging trends by welfare regimes 1981 to 2000 (PDF)', SPRC Discussion Paper No 138, February 2005.

Patulny, R., 'Social capital norms, networks and practices: a critical evaluation' (PDF), SPRC Discussion Paper No. 134, June 2004.

Recent Conference Presentations
Patulny, R. (2009), ‘Ex-household social isolation amongst retired men and women’, paper presented at paper presented at, An Inclusive Society, Practicalities and Possibilities, the 11th Australian Social Policy Conference, Sydney, 10 July, paper also presented at the 31st International Association of Time-Use Research Conference, Lunneberg, 23 September.

Patulny, R. (2008), ‘The harried leisure class? Time stress and social activity in Australia’, 30th International Association of Time Use Researchers (IATUR) Conference, Sydney, 1-3 December.

Patulny, R. (2008), ‘Social time and social trust’, presented at the Seventh Australian Society of Heterodox Economists, Sydney, 8-9 December.

Patulny, R. (2008), ‘The social engagement of older people in Australia’, presented at the 10th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference, Melbourne, 9-11 July.

Hyman, L., and Patulny R. (2007), 'Generalised or particularised happiness measures? Implications for time diary research into happiness', presented at the International Conference on Policies for Happiness, Sienna, Italy, 14-16 June.

Sturgis, P., Allum, N., Patulny, R., and Smith, P. (2007), 'Can we trust the general trust question? A survey experiment', paper presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference, USA, 17-20th May 2007

Patulny, R. (2006), 'Formal education, informal learning time and generational trust' presented at Time Use: An Interdisciplinary Issue, The 28th IATUR Conference on Time Use Research, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16-18 August.

Patulny, R. (2004), 'Theorising the influence of structure and welfare regimes upon social capital', plenary address for the Social Capital: Past, Present and Future,' Symposium, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, 7 December.

Patulny, R. (2003), 'From family to fellowship: defining multiple forms of bonding social capital and pathways through values and time use analysis', presented at the the Australian Social Policy Conference, 9-11 July.

Patulny, R. (2001), 'Affective rationality: emotion, reflection and habit', presented at Composite Sociology Postgraduate Conference, UNSW, 22 September.