Dr Christine Ablaza
Research Fellow
Centre for Policy Futures
Office 503, Level 5
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Researcher biography
Dr Christine Ablaza is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Policy Futures, The University of Queensland. Her background lies at the intersection of academic research and policy practice, having previously worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UQ’s School of Social Science and as Manager of the Health, Economics, and Social Policy team at Deloitte Access Economics. She has also consulted with a number of international organisations including The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.
Christine’s research leverages advanced quantitative methods to investigate various forms of socioeconomic disadvantage, including poverty, homelessness, and informal employment. She is currently undertaking work on labour market issues and the future of work, with a focus on non-standard employment and the gig economy in Australia and Southeast Asia. Her publications have appeared in various highly rated academic journals, including the International Labour Review, the American Journal of Public Health, Housing Studies, and the British Journal of Social Work.
Publications
Book Chapter
Mercer-Blackman, Valerie and Ablaza, Christine (2019). The servicification of manufacturing in Asia: a conceptual framework. Leveraging services for development: prospects and policies. (pp. 112-155) edited by Matthias Helble and Ben Shepherd. Tokyo, Japan: Asian Development Bank Institute.
Journal Articles
Brooks, Cameron, Burton, Rochelle, Van der Kleij, Fabienne, Ablaza, Christine, Carroll, Annemaree, Hattie, John and Salinas, Jaime Garcia (2024). “It actually helped”: students’ perceptions of feedback helpfulness prior to and following a teacher professional learning intervention. Frontiers in Education, 9 ARTN 1433184, 1-12. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1433184
Kuskoff, Ella, Parsell, Cameron, Plage, Stefanie, Perales, Francisco and Ablaza, Christine (2024). Of good mothers and violent fathers: negotiating child protection interventions in abusive relationships. Violence Against Women, 30 (10), 2531-2548. doi: 10.1177/10778012231158107
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, 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
Ablaza, Christine, Perales, Francisco, Parsell, Cameron, Middlebrook, Nathan, Robinson, Richard N. S., Kuskoff, Ella and Plage, Stefanie (2023). Increases in income-support payments reduce the demand for charity: A difference-in-difference analysis of charitable-assistance data from Australia over the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS One, 18 (7) e0287533, 1-16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287533
Plage, Stefanie, Kuskoff, Ella, Parsell, Cameron, Clarke, Andrew, Ablaza, Christine and Perales, Francisco (2023). Longing for a Forever Home: Ontological insecurity is collectively produced in fixed-term supportive housing for families. Housing, Theory and Society, 40 (3), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/14036096.2023.2173287
Irvine-Collins, Emma, Moore, Emma, Cao, Kailun, Curley, Melissa, Ablaza, Christine and Heard, Emma (2022). Promoting compassionate responses to disclosures of sexual violence in university settings: exploring the impact of a social marketing campaign. Violence Against Women, 29 (9), 107780122211348-1852. doi: 10.1177/10778012221134822
Kuskoff, Ella, Buchanan, Chris, Ablaza, Christine, Parsell, Cameron and Perales, Francisco (2022). Media representations of social housing before and during COVID-19: the changing face of the socially excluded. Housing Studies, 38 (1), 1-22. doi: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2135173
Ablaza, Christine, Kuskoff, Ella, Perales, Francisco and Parsell, Cameron (2022). Responding to domestic and family violence: the role of non-specialist services and implications for social work. The British Journal of Social Work, 53 (1), 81-99. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcac125
Perales, Francisco , Ablaza, Christine and Elkin, Nicki (2022). Exposure to inclusive language and well-being at work among transgender employees in Australia, 2020. American Journal of Public Health, 112 (3), 482-490. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306602
Tomaszewski, Wojtek, Ablaza, Christine, Straney, Lahn, Taylor, Catherine, Millar, Johnny and Schlapbach, Luregn (2022). Educational outcomes of childhood survivors of critical illness—A population-based linkage study. Critical Care Medicine, Publish Ahead of Print (6), 901-912. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005461
Kuskoff, Ella, Parsell, Cameron, Plage, Stefanie, Ablaza, Christine and Perales, Francisco (2022). Willing but unable: How resources help low-income mothers care for their children and minimise child protection intervention. The British Journal of Social Work, 52 (7), 3982-3998. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcac027
Kabatek, Jan, Perales, Francisco and Ablaza, Christine (2022). Evidence of a fraternal birth order effect on male and female same-sex marriage in the Dutch population: A reply to Blanchard and Semenyna, Gómez Jiménez & Vasey. Journal of Sex Research. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2021.2002798
Ablaza, Christine, Kabátek, Jan and Perales, Francisco (2022). Are sibship characteristics predictive of same sex marriage? An examination of fraternal birth order and female fecundity effects in population-level administrative data from the Netherlands. The Journal of Sex Research, 59 (6), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2021.1974330
Brooks, Cameron, Burton, Rochelle, van der Kleij, Fabienne, Ablaza, Christine, Carroll, Annemaree, Hattie, John and Neill, Sophia (2021). Teachers activating learners: The effects of a student-centred feedback approach on writing achievement. Teaching and Teacher Education, 105 103387, 103387. doi: 10.1016/j.tate.2021.103387
Perales, Francisco, Ablaza, Christine, Tomaszewski, Wojtek and Emsen-Hough, Dawn (2021). You, me, and them: understanding employees’ use of trans-affirming language within the workplace. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 19 (2), 760-776. doi: 10.1007/s13178-021-00592-9
Ablaza, Christine, Western, Mark and Tomaszewski, Wojtek (2021). Good jobs and bad jobs for Indonesia's informal workers. International Labour Review, 160 (1), 143-168. doi: 10.1111/ilr.12167
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.
Kuskoff, Ella, Parsell, Cameron, Plage, Stefanie, Perales, Francisco and Ablaza, Christine (2023). Of good mothers and violent fathers: findings from the keeping families together evaluation. Single parenting, co-parenting, and post-separation families: challenges and opportunities in times of crisis, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 23 June 2023.
Schlapbach, L. J., Tomaszewski, W., Ablaza, C., Straney, L., Taylor, C. and Millar, J. (2022). Educational Outcomes Of Childhood Survivors Of Critical Illness – A Population-based Linkage Study. 11th World Congress On Pediatric Intensive And Critical Care, Online, 12-16 July 2022. Philadelphia, PA United States: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. doi: 10.1097/01.pcc.0000899980.76828.0e
Thesis
Ablaza, Christine Marie J. (2021). Good jobs versus Bad jobs: An empirical analysis of job quality in Indonesia's informal economy. PhD Thesis, Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/070b630
Generic Document
Seminar Papers
Rimer, Jonah, Smith, Kiah and Ablaza, Christine (2024). Data gathering: Principles of good design. Research Capacity-Building Program, Australia Awards Short Course for Laotian Researchers. The University of Queensland.
Povey, J., Donoso Rivas, M. F., Sharma, N., Ablaza, C. and Gramotnev, A. (2019). An introduction to social science methods to address big social questions. Research Week. The University of Queensland Australia, The University of Queensland Australia.
Research Reports
Ablaza, Christine, Alladi, Vinayak and Pape, Utz (2023). Indonesia's Informal economy: measurement, evidence, and a research agenda. Washington, DC, United States: World Bank.
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.
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, 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.
Ablaza, Christine, Parsell, Cameron, Perales, Francisco and Kuskoff, Ella (2022). Ask and you shall receive: exploring the non-take-up of assistance from the community sector. 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.
Ablaza, Christine, Perales, Francisco, Parsell, Cameron, Robinson, Richard and Kuskoff, Ella (2021). Income support in the Covid-19 era: a case for reform. St Lucia, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.
Kuskoff, Ella, Parsell, Cameron, Ablaza, Christine, Perales, Francisco, Clarke, Andrew and Plage, Stefanie (2021). Keeping families together: pilot project study. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Ablaza, Christine, Perales, Francisco, Parsell, Cameron and Robinson, Richard (2021). Income and emergency relief: what we know so far. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.
Ablaza, Christine, Kuskoff, Ella, Perales, Francisco, Parsell, Cameron and Robinson, Richard (2021). Domestic and family violence and emergency relief: the who, the what, and the where. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Ablaza, Christine, Perales, Francisco, Parsell, Cameron and Robinson, Richard (2021). The demand for emergency relief: stability and change in the wake of COVID-19. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.
Working Papers
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
Buchanan, C., Kuskoff, E., Ablaza, C., Parsell, C. and Perales, F. (2022). From 'Deadbeat' to 'Deserving': The Role of Covid-19 in Reshaping Media Representations of Social Housing. LCC Working Paper Series. 2022-14. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland, Brisbane.
Mercer-Blackman, Valerie and Ablaza, Christine (2018). The servicification of manufacturing in Asia: redefining the sources of labor productivity. ADBI Working Paper Series . No. 902. Asian Development Bank Institute.