What the Centre is working on now

Project status is updated at the close of each quarter. Researcher profiles are published when a study is released, so that named attribution always sits alongside a finished, reviewable output.

OngoingConstitutional Literacy

National Constitutional Literacy Index

Project summary. A repeatable national measure of constitutional awareness among school students, teachers and community members, designed so that the same instrument can be run every two years and the results compared honestly across states.

Timeline: January 2026 – December 2027
Lead researchers: Research team — profiles published on completion
Phase 1 instrument design complete; field testing underway.
OngoingSafe Schools

Safe School Framework Implementation Study

Project summary. A longitudinal study following schools that have adopted the National Safe School Framework, tracking what changes in the first year, what quietly lapses in the second, and which parts of the standard are hardest to sustain without external support.

Timeline: April 2026 – March 2028
Lead researchers: Research team — profiles published on completion
Baseline audits collected from the first cohort of participating schools.
OngoingSafe Workplaces

Internal Committee Capability Assessment

Project summary. An assessment of how workplace internal committees are constituted, trained and supported in practice, examining the distance between a policy that exists on paper and a committee able to conduct a lawful, fair inquiry.

Timeline: February 2026 – August 2027
Lead researchers: Research team — profiles published on completion
Instrument piloted; organisational sampling in progress.
PlannedChild Protection

Institutional Response Pathways in Child Protection

Project summary. A study of what happens inside an institution between the moment a concern is noticed and the moment it is reported — the delays, the informal filtering, and the training that measurably shortens that interval.

Timeline: Commencing October 2026
Lead researchers: Research team — profiles published on completion
Ethics protocol and safeguarding review in preparation.
PlannedPublic Policy

Legal Literacy in Non-Law Higher Education

Project summary. A mapping of where legal and regulatory content currently appears in non-law degree programmes, and what graduates in engineering, management, healthcare and media are expected to know but are never taught.

Timeline: Commencing January 2027
Lead researchers: Research team — profiles published on completion
Curriculum sampling frame under development with partner universities.