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As at 28 May 2025, CRC will not be able to accept new research project collaboration requests, as we are at capacity. However, if you have a future- orientated project (for instance, research that will not commence until 2026), please feel free to send through a project description form, linked at the bottom of this page, and we will consider your project. Thank you for your understanding.

What type of research do we do at CRC?

Projects to improve our program operations and research aligned with our priorities

  • We conduct internal research projects focusing on the key areas of CRC’s work and the needs of our clients.
  • Our program evaluations are conducted either internally by CRC or by external research consultants.
  • Evaluations conducted by external consultants are supported and carefully overseen by the Advocacy, Research and Policy Unit (ARPU). We believe that ‘embedded evaluation’ can help achieve organisationally relevant findings.

External research projects

  • We encourage researchers to contact us at the project-conception stage so that CRC can contribute with practical knowledge and work on projects in a co-design or co-production method.
  • We will also consider engaging in externally designed research if it aligns with our priorities and if CRC has the capacity to participate.

All research projects at CRC should be
conducted in line with CRC’s Research Priorities and Principles

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A table with 7 columns detailing CRC’s research priorities and principles. Text in column 1 reads: ‘To explore the effectiveness of, and good practice in, community based through-care and post-release programs that support people to build meaningful pathways out of the criminal legal system’. Text in column 2 reads: ‘To understand the needs and experiences of people with lived experience of the criminal legal system, including people more broadly impacted, like families and communities’. Text in column 3 reads: ‘To explore the drivers and the means of reducing the overrepresentation of marginalised and disadvantaged people who are impacted by the criminal legal system (particularly First Nations peoples)’. Text in column 4 reads: ‘To ensure that people with lived experience of incarceration are given a voice in research pertaining to the criminal legal system and related social disadvantage’. Text in column 5 reads: ‘To investigate the costs and cost effectiveness of community programs and alternatives to incarceration’. Text in column 6 reads: ‘To explore the means of reducing the prison population’. Text in column 7 reads: ‘To conduct research that is likely to benefit people who access CRC’s services’.

How do we decide which research we participate in?

All research projects at CRC, including requests for research support, engagement or collaboration, are reviewed internally to assess how they align with our research principles and priorities.

We consider the ethical implications of the research and whether the project has formal ethics approval through a Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC).

We also consider whether the research is aligned with the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research and the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of NSW (AH&MRC) Ethical Guidelines: Key Principles.

Our internal review consists of the following steps:

CRCs-internal-review

Are you interested in undertaking research with CRC?

Please fill in the Project Description Form and email it to arpu.team@crcnsw.org.au We will come back to you with a response as soon as we can.

 

page update April 2025