Professor Ilan Katz
BA (Social Work) Witwatersrand University (Johannesburg), PhD Brunel University, London
Professor Katz joined SPRC in January 2005. He has many years of policy, practice and research experience in children and family services in the UK. He started his career as a social worker and manager, working in several local authorities and NGOs in London. He was head of Evaluation, Practice development and Research at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. After spending some time as a civil servant he returned to research to become Deputy Director of the Policy Research Bureau.Â
His research interests include evaluation of complex interventions, parenting, child protection, youth justice, prevention and family support, children, families and communities, comparative child welfare systems, migration, race and ethnicity. He was Chief Investigator of the National Evaluation of the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy and Brighter Futures, NSW Department of Community Services Early Intervention Program and he is currently CI on the evaluations of New Income Management, the Family Support Program and the Community Detention program and 'Where's the Evidence in Indigenous Social Policy, an ARC linkage project.
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Evaluation of the Early Intervention Evidence and Evaluation (EIEE) Fund |
2019-2020 |
NSW DCJ |
Residents’ views of care in Australian residential institutions |
2019-2020 |
Royal Commission into Age Care |
Evaluation of 3 wraparound initiatives |
2020 |
TFM – DCJ |
Children with disability in the Pathways of Care Longitudinal study |
2020 |
DCJ |
Evaluation of headspace |
2020-2021 |
Dept of Health |
Restoration of Aboriginal Children in PoCLS |
2020 |
DCJ |
Baseline study of current and future availability of Ex-Service Organisation Advocacy services |
2020-2021 |
DVA |
Evaluation of the Home and Healthy Program |
2020-2025 |
NSW DCJ |
Evaluation of the Together Home Program |
2021-2023 |
NSW DCJ |
Evaluation of Sustaining NSW Families |
2021-2023 |
NSW Health |
Centre Director
My Teaching
HDR Supervision: Ilan Katz is keen to supervise Higher Degree Research candidates with an interest in social policy, evidence based policy, Evaluation, parenting, family, child protection, mental health, youth justice, community, migration, race, culture, migration, ethnicity, social inclusion, poverty, international welfare comparison
Professor Katz currently supervises: , and .