Michael Bernard DARCY 16 Tamar St, Marrickville NSW 2204 AUSTRALIA Ph: 02 9772 6797 (W) 02 9558 0797 (H) FAX: +61 2 9772 6450 P N A T I O N A L I T Y : Australian DATE PLACE OF OF E R S O N A L e-mail: m.darcy@uws.edu.au I N F O R M A T I O N B I R T H : 15.5.1955 B I R T H : Sydney Australia M A R I T A L S T A T U S : Married, two children (17 and 14 yrs) A DOCTOR OF C A D E M I C Q U A L I F I C A T I O N S P H I L O S O P H Y 2001 School of Architecture, Planning and Allied Arts, University of Sydney. Thesis title: "From ‘Public Housing’ to ‘Social Housing’: Discourses of the State and Community after Fordism". MASTER OF ADMINISTRATION 1985 Research conducted as part requirement of Masters award was a study of management issues in community organisations, using Community Legal Centres (Marrickville Legal Centre and Women's Legal Resource Centre) as case studies. BACHELOR OF S O C I A L W O R K 1976 Curriculum Vitae Michael DARCY Page 2 P O S I T I O N S A T U W S  2008-present Associate Professor, Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre Research Centre  2006-2007 Acting Director, Social Justice and Social Change  2003-2005 Associate Dean (Research), College of Social and Health Sciences, University of Western Sydney  1985-2004 Senior Lecturer, School of Applied Social and Human Sciences, University of Western Sydney E X T E R N A L T E A C H I N G 2007- 2009 Housing and Urban Sustainability Study Abroad Module, University of Georgia Development and delivery of teaching modules for undergraduate students from University of Georgia and other US institutions on issues of social sustainability in Sydney. F Funded research includes: ♦ U N D E D R E S E A R C H 2009 Homeless in Parramatta: the extent and experience of homelessness in the City of Parramatta (with Parramatta City Council) $48,000 (UWS Partnership Research Grant) 2009 Evaluation of Centrelink Place Based Service Program (Centrelink) $147,000 (with Gabrielle Gwyther) 2007 Purchasing, Partnerships & Social Contracts: Giving effect to Government-NGO relationships (UWS Partnership Grant with Jobs Australia) $20,000 (with Assoc Prof Rosemary Leonard and Mr Eric Sidoti) 2007 Impact of market driven funding models on local service provision (UWS Urban Research Grant with Western Sydney Community Forum and Macarthur Community Forum) $24,000 (with Genevieve Kelly) ♦ ♦ ♦ Curriculum Vitae Michael DARCY Page 3 ♦ 2007 A Common Language for the Corporate and Community Sectors, (Westpac Foundation and Western Sydney Community Forum) $60,000 (with Dr D. Keenahan and Dr M.Varua) 2005-2008 Maximising the contribution of NGOs in a new planning framework for community services provision (ARC Linkage with Illawarra Community Forum) $136,000 (with Dr Lesley Treleaven) 2005-06 Evaluation of Bonnyrigg Living Communities Program, UWS Partnership Grant (with NSW Dept of Housing) $65,000 (also involves Profs Steve Wilson and Michael Singh) 2004 Housing and Work Location in Sydney, UWS Partnership Research Grant (with NSW Labor Council and NSW Shelter) $17,000 2003-06 Community Management of Human Services in the Quasimarket, (ARC Linkage with Local Community Services Association and WESTIR) $70,000 2003, Study of Housing Stock Transfers in NSW, Victoria and Tasmania (with Dr K Jacobs UTAS and Dr G. Marston RMIT), University of Tasmania, $8000 2000-2002, Tackling social exclusion: (with Prof Bill Randolph, Dr Bruce Herbert Judd, Ms Debra Georgiou, Dr Eileen Baldry) ARC-SPIRT, $143,000 1999-2001 “Pathways to Homelessness: Assessing the impact of structural and socio-demographic factors on the scope and nature of homelessness in Sydney” ARC-SPIRT with City of Sydney and Shelter NSW $90,000 2001 “Strategic Directions for Housing assistance” (with Prof Bill Randolph) commissioned by NSW Department of Housing $25,000 2000 “Transfer of Tenanted Public Housing Stock to Housing Associations in NSW” commissioned by Shelter NSW $6,300 1995-6 National research on best practice models amongst community housing providers. (with Dr. Cecily Neil, CSIRO ) Australian Housing Research Fund $38,000 1995 Affordable Housing Study (with Michael Bounds and Shahed Anwer Khan) commissioned by Sutherland Shire Council $12,000 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ • • Curriculum Vitae Michael DARCY Page 4 C O M P L E T E D T H E S I S S U P E R V I S I O N Principal Supervisor  D. Garland (M. A.) The Salvation Army and the State of Welfare Univ of Western Sydney 2004  D. Garland (PhD) Work for All: the Salvation Army and the Job Network Univ of Western Sydney 2008  P. O’Shea (PhD) Community Management in the Quasi-market: A Critical Examination of Changes in Discourse and Practice in Community Organisations in New South Wales, Australia Univ of Western Sydney 2009 Technology for Vulnerable Children: The Redevelopment of the Australian Case Management Systems ‘Looking after Children’ and ‘Supporting Children and Responding to Families’ Univ of Western Sydney 2009 Associate Supervisor  S. Tregeagle (PhD) Harnessing Information and Communication  R. Nicholls (PhD) Ethics of Trust and Resistance: Participation in Indigenous Research Univ of Western Sydney 2009  L. Keevers (PhD) Practising Social Justice: Community Organisations, What Matters and What Counts University of Sydney 2009 critical investigation of organisational knowledge in community services organisations University of Sydney 2006  C.Sykes (PhD) Efficient management, wasted knowledge?: a Curriculum Vitae Michael DARCY Page 5 P R E V I O U S E M P L O Y M E N T  1990-92 Head, Urban and Regional Development Unit, Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS), (on leave from UWS, Macarthur) Responsible for establishment and management of a self-funding research and policy unit within the ACOSS secretariat specialising in housing and urban and regional development issues, and Commonwealth-State relations. Conduct and management of a number of research and consultation projects and authorship of policy and research reports. Preparation of detailed policy recommendations to government, (through the ACOSS Board), and participation in delegations and representations to Federal Ministers and departmental officials. Carriage of ACOSS involvement (as representative of low-income consumers) in the Federal Government's Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) Process including representing ACOSS on ESD Working Parties on Energy Use and Transport. Research Projects and Consultancies for which I was responsible as head of ACOSS Urban and Regional Development Unit: * * * * * National Community Welfare Sector Consultations on the National Housing Strategy "Residential Location and Mobility in the Settlement Process" for Bureau of Immigration and Population Research "Local Government and Social Change" for Office of Local Government National Community Welfare Sector Consultations on the MFPAdelaide proposal for MFP-Adelaide Community Consultation Panel Evaluation of Migrant Access Projects Scheme for Department of Immigration Local Government and Ethnic Affairs.  1981-1985 Community Worker/Community Services Coordinator, Ryde Municipal Council.  1980-1981 Project Officer, Handicapped Persons' Bureau, Department of Youth and Community Services.  1976-1978 Community Worker (New Housing Estates), Department of Youth and Community Services. E X T E R N A L B O A R D S A N D C O M M I T T E E S Executive Councillor, International Sociological Association Research Committee 43 “Housing and Built Environment’ Member NTEU National Research Policy Committee 2005-2009 Board member, Australia and New Zealand Third Sector Research 2003-06 Curriculum Vitae Michael DARCY Page 6 Board Member NSW Shelter 2003-06 Expert Member, NSW Housing Assistance Plan Ministerial Advisory Committee 1998-2001 Vice President (Academic) NSW Division, National Tertiary Education Union 2000-2004 President, National Tertiary Education Union, University of Western Sydney Branch 1997-2000 Member Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Reference Group on Professional Development and Training (NSW) 1995 Curriculum Vitae Michael DARCY Page 7 P U B L I C A T I O N S  Research Monographs Darcy, M., Waterford, M. and McIvor, J. ‘To Market, To Market . .’ Competitive Tendering and Purchase of Service in the Community Sector. Sydney: UWS, Western Sydney Community Forum and Sector Connect Inc. 2009 (42 pp) Sidoti, E. Banks, R. Darcy, M. O’Shea, P. Leonard, R. Atie, R. DiNicola, M. Stevenson, S. & Moor, D. A Question of Balance: principles, contracts and the government-not-for-profit relationship Sydney: Public Interest Advocacy Centre, Whitlam Insititute and University of Western Sydney 2009 (65 pp) Darcy, M and Randolph B Strategic Directions for Housing Assistance NSW Dept of Housing 2002 (85 pp) Darcy, M and Stringfellow J. Hobson’s Choice: Transfer of Tenanted Public Housing Stock to Housing Associations in NSW Sydney: Shelter NSW, 2000 (36 pp) Darcy M., Randolph B., & Stringfellow J. Social And Behavioural Issues In Housing Estates: An Overview Of Research Questions And Policy Issues AHURI/UWS January 2000 (18 pp) Darcy, M. Community Housing: The Consumer Perspective National Shelter Research Paper No 2, Canberra: National Shelter 1996 (40 pp) Darcy, M. & Neil, C. Good Better Best: Best Practice in Community Housing Management in Australia AHURI 1996 (website only, made available on request) Darcy, M., Bounds, M. & Khan, S. Affordable Housing in Sutherland Sutherland Shire Council 1995 Cox G, Darcy M & Bounds The Olympics and Housing: A study of six international events and analysis of potential impacts of the Sydney 2000 Olympics University of Western Sydney 1994 (82 pp) Dwyer L, Kearney C, & Darcy M Survey and Economic Analysis of Regional Labour Market: Canterbury Bankstown Macsearch (UWSM) 1993 (165 pp) Darcy M, Residential Location in the Settlement Process Canberra: Bureau of Immigration Research, 1993 (150 pp)  Edited Books Bolzan, N., Darcy, M., & Mason, N. (eds) Fenced Out, Fenced In: Border Protection, Asylum and Detention in Australia Melbourne: Common Ground Publishing 2006 Curriculum Vitae Michael DARCY Page 8  Journal Articles Darcy, M. (2009)‘Renewal, Redevelopment and the ‘Problem’ of Public Housing Estates: A Critical Discourse Approach’ Housing, Theory and Society IFirst Advance access (1), 1-22 Garland, D. & Darcy, M. “Working Together?”: The Salvation Army and the Job Network” Organization 16 (5) 755-774 (2009) Darcy, M., Nicholls, R., Roffey, C. & Rogers, D. ‘Research Students and Community Development: The challenges of integrating academic expectations with community needs and values’ Metropolitan Universities Journal 19 (1) 21-37 (2008) Darcy, M. 'Housing Sydney' The Sydney Journal 1 (1) 27-37 (2008) Darcy M. 'Place and Disadvantage: the need for reflexive epistemology in spatial social science' Urban Policy and Research 25(3) 347-361 (2007) O’Shea, P., Leonard, R. and Darcy, M. 'Does ‘Competition’ Kill ‘Social Capital.' Third Sector Review 13 (2) 49-69 (2007). Tregeagle, S. & Darcy, M. 'Child Welfare and Information and Communication Technology: Today’s Challenge' British Journal of Social Work (Advance Access http://bjsw.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/bcm048v1) (2007) Jacobs, K, Marston, G. & Darcy, M. ‘Changing the mix’: contestation surrounding the public housing stock transfer process in Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania. Urban Policy and Research 22 (3) 249-263 (2004) Darcy, M. & Georgiou, D. “Purpose, Professionalism and Management Culture - the challenges for housing providers and their staff in delivering community renewal” in Housing Works 2(1), 13-18 (2004) Darcy, M “Markets, Markets Everywhere” in Australian Universities Review 46 (1) 17-19 (2003) Darcy, M. “Community Management: how management discourse killed participation” in Critical Quarterly 44 (4) 32-39 Winter 2002 Darcy, M. “The Discourse of Community and the Re-invention of Social Housing in Australia”in Urban Studies 36 (1) 13-26 January 1999 Darcy, M. "Tenant Outcomes in Community Housing" in Shelter: National Housing Action 10(3) 14-20 December 1994 Darcy, M. "Community Housing and the Future of the Welfare State" in Shelter: National Housing Action 10(1) 14-18 March 1994 Darcy, M. "The New Federalism: Wading Through the Process" in Impact Australian Council of Social Service 21(2) 14-19 Mar 1991 Curriculum Vitae Michael DARCY Page 9 Darcy, M. "Not Just Cities: Urban Development and Social Justice" in Poverty Watch September 1990 (p.1) Darcy, M. "Social Work or Not Social Work - Is That Really the Question: A Reply to Thea Brown and Janet Taylor on Social Workers in Local Government," in Australian Social Work 41 (1) 17-20 March 1988. Darcy, M. "Community Management as Community Control" in Welfare in Australia 7 (1) 17-20, 1987.  Chapters Darcy, M. 'Housing Sydney' The Dictionary of Sydney (forthcoming 2009) [www.dictionaryofsydney.org] Darcy, M. 'Homeless Sydney' The Dictionary of Sydney (forthcoming 2009)) [www.dictionaryofsydney.org] Darcy, M & Bolzan, N. Who are we?: Inclusion and Exclusion in Australian Political Discourse in Bolzan, N. Darcy, M & Mason, N. (eds) Fenced Out, Fenced In: Border Protection, Asylum and Detention in Australia (139-152) Melbourne: Common Ground Publishing 2006 Darcy, M & Stubbs J. Housing and Social Work Practice in Alston, M & McKinnon J. (eds) Social Work: Fields of Practice. Oxford University Press 2005 Blunden, H Darcy, M Perry, J Stubbs, J (2004) Housing Costs and Work Location in Sydney in Carlson E (ed) A Future That Works, Callaghan, N.S.W: University of Newcastle, Centre of Full Employment and Equity Darcy, M. Sydney as a case study of Housing and Social Justice in Australia in Leonard, R. (ed) Fair Go: Some issues of Social Justice in Australia (103-116) Melbourne: Common Ground 2004 Darcy, M & Manzi, T. Organisational Research:Conflict and Power within UK and Australian Social Housing Organisations in Jacobs, K., Kemeny, J, & Manzi, T. Social Constructionism in Housing Research (142-158) Aldershot: Ashgate 2004 Darcy, M “Housing: the Great Divide” in Connell, John (ed) Sydney: the Emergence of a World City (222-243) Sydney: Oxford University Press 2000 Darcy, M "Client-Based Funding and Housing Assistance" in Vouchers and `Client-Based Funding' in Social Policy Public Sector Research Centre University of NSW November 1992 Darcy, M "Community Management as Community Control" in Dunn, P.(ed) Community Services: A Rural Focus, R.A.M. Neighbourhood Centres Group, Wagga Wagga 1987 Curriculum Vitae Michael DARCY Page 10  Refereed Conference Presentations ‘There goes the neighbourhood . . .’: recasting ‘neighbourhood effects’ and ‘disadvantaged places’ using collaborative ‘emergence’ methodology (with Gabrielle Gwyther) International Sociologcal Association, Housing and Built Environment Research Committee Confernce, Glasgow Sept 2009 “Social Mix and Social Inclusion: Rhetoric and Reality in Sydney and Chicago”(with Assoc Prof Janet Smith, University of Illinois Chicago) 1st Forum of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Barcelona Sept 2008 “Neighbourhood Effects, Social Mix and Redevelopment of Public Housing Estates In Australia: A Critical Discourse Analysis” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Milwaukee WI, October 2007 (Refereed abstract) “Research Students and Community Development: The challenges of integrating academic expectations with community needs and values” Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities Conference, Baltimore MA October 2007 (refereed abstract) “The Use and Mis-use of Spatial Social Sciencein Urban Management” ARC Research Network on Spatially Integrated Social Science, 2nd National Conference, Melbourne 2006 (refereed abstract) “Democratisation and Commodification in the Australian Welfare State” 6th International Conference on Organisational Discourse, Amsterdam 2004 (full paper) “Housing costs and work location in Sydney” (with Hazel Blunden) State of Australian Cities Conference, Parramatta December 2003 (full paper refereed) “‘Changing the mix’: a case study of public housing stock transfers in Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania” (with Keith Jacobs & Greg Marston) National Housing Conference Adelaide November 2003 (refereed abstract) “Integrating Research Paradigms: a Comparative Analysis of Critical Discourse Analysis and Social Constructionist Methods in Housing Research” (with Tony Manzi) Methodologies in Housing Research International Conference (European Network for Housing Research) Stockholm, Sept 2003. (refereed abstract) “Pathways to Homelessness: Assessing the impact of structural and sociodemographic factors on the scope and nature of homelessness in Sydney” National Housing Conference, Brisbane, October 2001 (refereed abstract) Curriculum Vitae Michael DARCY Page 11 “Neo-liberalism or the ‘post-Fordist State’: the case of Social Housing” presented to National Social Policy Conference Social Policy Research Centre UNSW July 1999 (refereed abstract) “Residential Location in the Settlement Process” Social Impacts of Immigration National Conference, Macquarie University 1991 (full paper refereed) "The Low-Income Housing Crisis in Australia: An Address for Inequality" with Attridge, Martin: World Organisation of Building Officials International Conference, Sydney 1990 (refereed abstract)  Other Conference and Research Papers “Public Housing in Australia: Redevelopment and Social Mix” Centre for Urban Research and Learning, Loyola University Chicago, 5th October 2007 (invited) 'Challenges and opportunities for social housing' Shelter NSW seminar, 'Building blocks: housing challenges and opportunities for New South Wales', Sydney, 9 November 2006 (invited) “The View from Newer Universities” ‘Universities and the New Research Environment’ NTEU National Research Conference Melbourne 2006 “Public Housing as a Public Issue” Project Censored: Public Right to Know Conference, Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, UTS Sydney August 2004 (invited) “Housing Affordability” Sydney Social Forum, University of Technology, Sydney October 2003 (invited) “Homelessness and Mobility” presented to Social Policy Research Centre Seminar Series UNSW October 1999 (invited) “Social Justice in the Olympic City: Some International Experiences” Living in the Olympic State Conference, Parramatta November 1997 “A Post-Fordist Approach to Social Housing” School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, 27th April 1996 “Sustainability and Social Equity” Dept of Social Policy and Social Work, University College Dublin, 5th June 1996 “Social Housing Futures in the Post Fordist State” UWS Social Housing Futures seminar, Sydney 1995 “Social Aspects of the Global City: the Olympics, Housing and Urban Cultures” presented to Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Seminar, Melbourne 1995 (with Michael Bounds) (invited) "Viable Community Housing: What Does It Really Mean?" Paper presented to the First NSW Community Housing Conference, Sydney November 1993 (invited) Curriculum Vitae Michael DARCY Page 12  Reviews: ‘Key Issues in Housing: Policies and Markets in 21st Century Britain’ Glen Bramley, Moira Munro and Hal Pawson in Journal of Social Policy July 2006 ‘The Information Society and the Welfare State’ by Manuel Castells and Pikka Himanen in Global Social Policy 2005 ‘Globalisation and Human Welfare’ by Vic George and Paul Wilding in Global Social Policy Sage December 2003 `Inside Outlaws: A Prison Diary' by Tim Anderson in Australian Journal of Social Issues ACOSS March 1992 ‘A History of the Queensland Teachers' Union’ by Spaull, A. and Sullivan, M. in Forum in Education 1989 P • E E R R E V I E W A N D E X A M I N A T I O N Australian Research Council ‘INTREADER’ since 2005 [NOTE: Intreaders are internationally acknowledged experts in the specific field of a proposed research project. Chosen for their specialist knowledge and outstanding research reputation, Intreaders are asked to assess in the context of international research and benchmarks.] • Urban Studies; • • • • Peer reviewed articles for Australian Social Work; Third Sector Review; Australian Universities Review. Theses examined externally: • Circuit of Governance: Modes and Social Relations in Housing Policy (PhD) University of Tasmania 2009 • Tenant-Landlord Communicative Interaction: the influence of litigation in public housing (PhD) University of NSW 2008 • The Politics of Need: accounting for (dis)advantage: public housing cooperatives in Western Australia (PhD) Murdoch University 2007 Curriculum Vitae Michael DARCY Page 13 • Welfare Discourses in Contemporary Australian Politics (PhD) University of Queensland 2007 For Profit organisations in the Community Services Industry (BA Hons) University of Newcastle 2007 Microeconomic reform of the Building and Development Process: The Development and Outcomes of Building Regulation Reform in Australia 1990-2003 (PhD) RMIT University 2006 NSW Australia (PhD) University of NSW 2003 • • • Retirement in Mobile and Manufactured Housing on the North Coast of