Researcher biography
Rose-Marie Stambe is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the School of Social Science and Centre for Policy Futures. z
Her area of expertise lies in qualitative research methods, particularly ethnography. She has dedicated her research efforts to investigating how policy, institutional practices, and systems impact the lives of individuals who face social and economic marginalisation. Rose's primary focus is to understand the intricate dynamics between policy, institutional practices, and the lived realities of marginalised individuals, with the ultimate goal of advocating for system transformation and social change. In her research, Rose examines various social issues including unemployment, just transitions, homelessness, charity and domestic and family violence. Her PhD was on the mundane practices of an Australian employment services provider, she won the 2020 Dean’s Award for Outstanding HDR Thesis, and her thesis has been published as a book by Routledge entitled, Psychology, punitive activation and welfare: Blaming the unemployed.
Areas of supervision
Rose welcomes research proposals focused on experiences of unemployment and the welfare state; experiences of homelessness and service provision; charity provision; critical studies on the future of works, particularly around the transition from carbon; and using ethnography to understand marginalisation.
Publications
Book
Stambe, Rose-Marie (2022). Psychology, punitive activation and welfare: blaming the unemployed. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003112518
Book Chapters
Plage, Stefanie and Stambe, Rose-Marie (2024). Housing and energy . Political determinants of health in Australia: a planetary perspective. (pp. 69-86) edited by Marguerite C. Sendall, Allyson Mutch and Lisa Fitzgerald. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003315490-7
Fryer, David and Stambe, Rose (2015). Unemployment and Mental Health. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. (pp. 733-737) Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.14046-2
Stambe, Rose and Fryer, David (2014). Photovoice: doing assessed research as an undergraduate from a critical standpoint. SAGE Research Methods Cases Part 1. (pp. 1-11) London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications. doi: 10.4135/978144627305013509770
Journal Articles
Kuskoff, Ella, Sharma, Nikita, Stambe, Rose-Marie, Plage, Stefanie and Parsell, Cameron (2024). ‘Moving, moving, moving’: the social forces that perpetuate housing instability for women experiencing intimate partner violence. Housing Studies, 1-22. doi: 10.1080/02673037.2024.2367650
Stambe, Rose-Marie, Plage, Stefanie, Parsell, Cameron, Kuskoff, Ella and Wagland, Edwina (2024). A shelter by any other name? Delivering homeless crisis accommodation services in a hotel. Housing Policy Debate, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/10511482.2024.2362633
Plage, Stefanie, Stambe, Rose-Marie, Parsell, Cameron and Kuskoff, Ella (2024). Climbing, stalling, falling: how people experiencing housing instability anticipate their futures. Journal of Sociology. doi: 10.1177/14407833241255151
Perales, Francisco, Parsell, Cameron, Ablaza, Christine, Kuskoff, Ella, Plage, Stefanie and Stambe, Rose (2024). Re(de)fining success: tenancy issues, provider supports, and tenancy outcomes in an Australian Permanent Supportive Housing programme. Housing Studies, 1-25. doi: 10.1080/02673037.2024.2339915
Stambe, Rose-Marie, Plage, Stefanie, Kuskoff, Ella and Parsell, Cameron (2024). “There’s not much I can do about it”: violence and control in marginal(izing) spaces. Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness, 1-9. doi: 10.1080/10530789.2024.2308495
Parsell, Cameron and Stambe, Rose (2023). Christianity, helping people in poverty, and embodied relationships. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 63 (2), 350-367. doi: 10.1111/jssr.12899
Stambe, Rose, Kuskoff, Ella, Parsell, Cameron, Plage, Stefanie, Ablaza, Christine and Perales, Francisco (2023). Seeing, sharing and supporting: assertive outreach as a partial solution to rough sleeping. The British Journal of Social Work, 54 (2), 723-740. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcad251
Plage, Stefanie, Baker, Kirsten, Parsell, Cameron, Stambe, Rose-Marie, Kuskoff, Ella and Mansuri, Arif (2023). Staying safe, feeling welcome, being seen: how spatio-temporal configurations affect relations of care at an inclusive health and wellness centre. Health Expectations, 26 (6), 2620-2629. doi: 10.1111/hex.13858
Stambe, Rose-Marie and Parsell, Cameron (2023). Shame, anger and hope: The messy relations of charitable help within the welfare state. Sociology, 58 (3), 1-16. doi: 10.1177/00380385231195790
Stambe, Rose-Marie and Meyer, Silke (2022). Police and duty lawyer perceptions of domestic violence protection order proceedings involving parents: towards greater system accountability and family-centred decision-making. Journal of Family Violence, 38 (7), 1-13. doi: 10.1007/s10896-022-00449-8
Stambe, Rose‐Marie (2022). Review: The work cure: critical essays on work and wellness. Sociology of Health & Illness, 44 (7), 1207-1208. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13511
Stambe, Rose and Marston, Greg (2022). Checking Activation at the Door: Rethinking the Welfare-Work Nexus in Light of Australia’s Covid-19 Response. Social Policy and Society, 22 (1), 1-16. doi: 10.1017/s1474746421000944
Meyer, Silke and Stambe, Rose (2021). Increasing compliance with domestic violence protection orders: investing in perpetrator education and support as an investment in victim and family safety. Policing and Society, 32 (9), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/10439463.2021.2016756
Meyer, Silke and Stambe, Rose-Marie (2020). Mothering in the context of violence: indigenous and non-indigenous mothers' experiences in regional settings in Australia. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37 (9-10), 088626052097581-NP7983. doi: 10.1177/0886260520975818
Meyer, Silke and Stambe, Rose-Marie (2020). Indigenous women's experiences of domestic and family violence, help-seeking and recovery in regional Queensland. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 56 (3), 443-458. doi: 10.1002/ajs4.128
Fryer, D., Marley, C. and Stambe, R. (2020). The reproduction of compliant labour power through (re)constitution of the child and adult subject: Critical knowledge work. . AWRY Journal of Critical Psychology, 1 (1), 35-49.
Parsell, Cameron, Stambe, Rose and Baxter, Janeen (2017). Rejecting wraparound support: An ethnographic study of social service provision. The British Journal of Social Work, 48 (2), 302-320. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcx045
Stambe, Rose-Marie (2015). Undoing ethics: rethinking practice in online research. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 12 (3), 342-345. doi: 10.1080/14780887.2015.1008913
Fryer, David and Stambe, Rose (2014). Work and 'the crafting of individual identities' from a critical standpoint. The Australian Community Psychologist, 26 (1), 8-17.
Fryer, David and Stambe, Rose (2014). Neoliberal austerity and unemployment. Psychologist, 27 (4), 34-38.
Fryer, David and Stambe, Rose (2013). Moving forward from austerity. Psychologist, 26 (11), 778-779.
Stambe, R., Fryer, D. and Hicks, S. (2012). Is 'mental illness' a barrier to getting involved?. Asylum: An International Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry, Psychology and Community Development, 19 (3).
Conference Papers
Ablaza, Christine, Gatta, Arianna, Stambe, Rose-Marie and Marston, Greg (2024). What is a good job and who gets it? Exploring the multidimensionality of job quality. Reimagining Industrial Relations: Work, Care, Climate and Safety. AIRAANZ Conference 2024, Perth, WA Australia, 31 January - 2 February 2024.
Ablaza, Christine, Gatta, Arianna, Stambe, Rose-Marie and Marston, Greg (2024). Non-standard employment and job satisfaction: the mediating role of job characteristics. Reimagining Industrial Relations: Work, Care, Climate and Safety. AIRAANZ Conference 2024, Perth, WA Australia, 31 January - 2 February 2024.
Ahearn, Elizabeth-Rose, Stambe, Rose, Ablaza, Tin, Chapman, Cassandra and Parsell, Cameron (2023). Evaluation Accountability: A Systematic Review and Meta-Evaluation of Social Impact Evaluation. 52nd Annual ARNOVA Conference, Orlando, FL United States, 9-11 November 2023.
Gatta, Arianna and Stambe, Rose-Marie (2023). "If it doesn't work, why do we keep doing it?": explaining the persistence and diffusion of the conditionality paradigm.. Australian Social Policy Conference, Canberra, ACT Australia, 11-13 September 2023.
Stambe, Rose-Marie and Parsell, Cameron (2023). Christianity, helping the poor, and relationships to drive structural transformation. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia, 25 June-1 July 2023.
Marston, Greg and Stambe, Rose-Marie (2023). Social policy and just transitions in Australia: beyond jobs and training.. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia, 25 June-1 July 2023.
Plage, Stefanie, Stambe, Rose-Marie, Parsell, Cameron and Kuskoff, Ella (2023). Climbing, stalling, falling: how people experiencing housing instability anticipate their futures. XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia, 25 June-1 July 2023.
Plage, Stefanie, Baker, Kirsten, Parsell, Cameron, Stambe, Rose-Marie, Kuskoff, Ella and Mansuri, Arif (2022). Staying safe, feeling welcome, being seen: How spatio-temporal configurations affect relations of care at an inclusive health and wellness clinic. TASA Annual Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 28 November-2 December 2022.
Stambe, Rose, Marley, Charles and Fryer, David (2020). Are ‘critical’ community psychology and qualitative research incompatible? Some critical methodology challenges. 7th International Community Psychology Conference, Melbourne, Australia, May 2022.
Stambe, Rose-Marie and Fryer, David (2016). Some challenges of realising and warranting critical methodology and method within a PhD research project. 6th International Conference for Community Psychology, Durban, South Africa, 27-30 May 2016.
Thesis
Stambe, Rose-Marie (2020). Becoming 'unemployed': Mapping and (re)constituting subjectivity within jobactive. PhD Thesis, Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.97
Research Reports
Parsell, Cameron, Sharma, Nikita, Stambe, Rose, Kuskoff, Ella, Davidraj, Paul and Kozionas, Jade (2024). What does it take and mean to sustain a tenancy and prevent homelessness?. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Stambe, Rose-Marie, Plage, Stefanie, Venables, Jemma and Kuskoff, Ella (2024). Hanging by a thread: our search for home. A youth photovoice project report. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.
Stambe, Rose-Marie, Yarnold, Jennifer, Marston, Greg and Moss, Jeremy (2024). Community is key to Queensland’s energy future. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.
Kuskoff, Ella, Stambe, Rose, Sharma, Nikita, Plage, Stefanie and Parsell, Cameron (2023). Keeping Families Together: 2023 Study Report. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.
Plage, Stefanie, Parsell, Cameron, Kuskoff, Ella, Stambe, Rose-Marie, Baker, Kirsten and Mansuri, Arif (2023). Health, home, hope. A research report on Inclusive Health and Wellness Partnerships. St Lucia, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.
Stambe, Rose, Ablaza, Christine (Tin), Parsell, Cameron, Robinson, Richard, Plage, Stefanie and Kuskoff, Ella (2023). An empirical study of the Park Hotel Homelessness Response: a report for the St Vincent de Paul Society Queensland. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Parsell, Cameron, Perales, Francisco, Kuskoff, Ella, Robinson, Richard, Ablaza, Christine, Plage, Stefanie and Stambe, Rose (2023). A survey of the people contributing to the St Vincent De Paul Society Queensland. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Parsell, Cameron, Perales, Francisco, Kuskoff, Ella, Stambe, Rose and Plage, Stefanie (2023). Brisbane Common Ground: analyses of tenancy sustainment and exits. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Stambe, Rose, Ablaza, Christine, Plage, Stefanie, Kuskoff, Ella, Perales, Francisco and Parsell, Cameron (2023). An empirical study of Micah Project's Street to Home program. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Stambe, Rose, Marston, Greg, Staines, Zoe and Henman, Paul (2023). Submission to the Select Committee on Workforce Australia Employment Services. Canberra, ACT Australia: Parliament of Australia.
Stambe, Rose, Ablaza, Christine, Parsell, Cameron, Plage, Stefanie and Kuskoff, Ella (2022). Experiences and exits: Living at the Park Hotel and moving out. The Park Hotel Series Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Stambe, Rose, Albaza, Christine, Plage, Stefanie, Kuskoff, Ella, Perales, Francisco and Parsell, Cameron (2022). Pathways out of homelessness grant program: An evaluation report. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.
Stambe, Rose, Ablaza, Christine (Tin), Parsell, Cameron, Plage, Stefanie and Kuskoff, Ella (2022). Pathways and profiles: getting to know the Park Hotel clients. The Park Hotel Series Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.
Stambe, Rose, Parsell, Cameron, Kuskoff, Ella, Plage, Stefanie and Ablaza, Christine (Tin) (2022). The Park Hotel: understanding the service delivery model. The Park Hotel Series Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Stambe, Rose-Marie (2020). Becoming unemployed: mapping and (re)constituting subjectivities in jobactive. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland .
Parsell, Cameron, Stambe, Rose-Marie, ten Have, Charlotte and Walter, Zoe (2017). Analysis of the Pindari Model. A Report for The Salvation Army. Long Pocket, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Seminar Papers
Stambe, Rose-Marie (2024). The emotional landscape of the Australian welfare state. School of Social Work, Linnaeus University.
Stambe, Rose-Marie, Plage, Stefanie, Maddren, Rees, Kelly, Vicki and Ledgerwood, Tahnee (2024). Hanging by a thread: our search for home. School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane.
Working Papers
Kuskoff, Ella, Stambe, Rose, Sharma, Nikita, Plage, Stefanie and Parsell, Cameron (2024). Supportive housing for families in Brisbane: Successes and challenges of the housing model. LCC Working Paper Series. 2024-02. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/7a4d8f6
Stambe, Rose, Kuskoff, Ella, Parsell, Cameron, Plage, Stefanie, Ablaza, Christine and Perales, Francisco (2023). Assertive outreach as a response to rough sleeping: seeing people, sharing information, and supporting housing access. LCC Working Paper Series. 2023-20. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland Australia. doi: 10.14264/a370d12
Stambe, Rose, Ablaza, Christine, Parsell, Cameron, Robinson, Richard, Plage, Stefanie and Kuskoff, Ella (2023). From Hostels to Hotels: An Empirical Study of Brisbane’s Innovative Homelessness Response. LCC Working Paper Series 2. 2023-16. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland Australia. doi: 10.14264/5bc9122
Parsell, Cameron, Perales, Francisco, Kuskoff, Ella, Stambe, Rose and Plage, Stefanie (2023). Permanent supportive housing: A ten-year study of entries and exits. LCC Working Paper Series. 2023-05. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/c46109d
Stefanie Plage, Kirsten Baker, Cameron Parsell, Rose-Marie Stambe, Ella Kuskoff and Arif Mansuri (2023). Staying safe, feeling welcome, being seen: how spatio-temporal configurations affect relations of care at an inclusive health and wellness centre. LCC Working Paper Series. 2023-03. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland Australia . doi: 10.14264/1540b42
Plage, Stefanie, Baker, Kirsten, Parsell, Cameron, Stambe, Rose-Marie, Kuskoff, Ella and Mansuri, Arif (2023). Staying Safe, Feeling Welcome, Being Seen: How Spatio-Temporal Configurations Affect Relations of Care at an Inclusive Health and Wellness Centre. LCC Working Paper Series. 2023-03. ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course.
Creative Works
Wood, Leanne, Stambe, Rose-Marie, Plage, Stefanie, Parsell, Cameron, Maddren, Rees, Ledgerwood, Tahnee and Kuskoff, Ella (2023). Hanging by a thread: our search for home. Fortitude Valley, QLD, Australia: Anglicare Southern Queensland; The University of Queensland.
Plage, Stefanie, Perrier, Robert, Bubenik, Andrea, Baker, Kirsten, Stambe, Rose-Marie, Kuskoff, Ella and Parsell, Cameron (2023). Health home hope: a photographic exhibition on housing and health. West End, Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Newspaper Articles
Stambe, Rose-Marie and Parsell, Cameron (2023, 09 29). Understanding the feelings of poverty: shame, anger, and hope The Power to Persuade
Stambe, Rose and Marston, Greg (2022, 08 18). Rethinking the welfare-work nexus in light of Australia’s COVID-19 response Austaxpolicy
Stambe, Rose-Marie and Fryer, David (2015, 01 12). How the unemployed 'disappear' and why it matters The Conversation