Section: Overview
Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career

Key details

Areas of expertise

  • Human Rights Social Policy
  • Apprentices & vocational training
  • Non-formal education
  • Youth and Community Work

Available to supervise research students

Available for media queries

About Tim Corney

Tim has extensive experience in industry, academia and the youth and community sector. He has worked as a practitioner, senior manager, researcher, academic and as a consultant and adviser on social policy and youth affairs to community agencies, government and peak bodies across Australia and Internationally.

Tim's work with young people and the youth and community sectors is widely recognised. He is currently advising the Commonwealth of Nations Secretariat on international youth development issues.

Tim has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in sociology, social policy, ethics and youth studies. His teaching, supervision and research interests include human rights, youth policy, youth studies, youth transitions, education, vocational and apprenticeship training, young workers and professional youth and community work practice.

Qualifications

  • PhD (Melb)
  • MA (RMIT)
  • BA (Deakin)
  • BA Youth Studies (VU)

Key publications

Year Citation
2024 Corney, T., du, Plessis., Woods, B., Lou, C., Dewhurst, A., & Mawren, D. (241201). If you are feeling alone and you are not feeling safe, it impacts everything : a mixed-methods exploration of international students accommodation, subjective wellbeing and mental health help-seeking. BMC Public Health, 24(1),

doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-18691-8

2024 Cooper, T., Corney, T., & Gorman, J. (240601). Youth Work for People and Planet: Integrating Insights from Ecopedagogy into Youth Work. YOUTH, 4(2), (735-744).

doi: 10.3390/youth4020049

2024 Gorman, J., Baker, A., Corney, T., & Cooper, T. (240101). Youth and Community Work for Climate Justice: Towards an Ecocentric Ethics for Practice. Ethics and Social Welfare, 18(2), (115-130).

doi: 10.1080/17496535.2024.2327379

2024 Rannala, I. E., Gorman, J., Tierney, H., Gumundsson, Hickey, J., & Corney, T. (240101). Ethical Practice in Professional Youth Work: Perspectives from Four Countries. Ethics and Social Welfare, 18(2), (195-210).

doi: 10.1080/17496535.2024.2312274

2024 Cooper, T., Corney, T., Tierney, H., Gorman, J., & Sutcliffe, J. (240101). Talking about relational youth work: why language matters. Journal of Youth Studies,

doi: 10.1080/13676261.2023.2298327

2024 Corney, T., Marion, J., Baird, R., Welsh, S., & Gorman, J. (240101). Youth Work as Social Pedagogy: Toward an Understanding of Non-Formal and Informal Education and Learning in Youth Work. Child and Youth Services, 45(3), (345-370).

doi: 10.1080/0145935X.2023.2218081

2023 MacDonald, F., Woods, B., Hall, C., Corney, T., & Ryan, D. (231001). Joining the dots to reimagine community resilience: empowering young people. AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, 38(4), (85-89).
2023 Leontini, R., & Corney, T. (230601). Student drinking cultures in tertiary education residential accommodation: A contextual research study. NAD Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 40(3), (270-286).

doi: 10.1177/14550725221143169

2022 Corney, T., & du, Plessis. (220801). Australian first-year university college residents alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harms. NAD Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 39(4), (406-417).

doi: 10.1177/14550725221090037

2022 Corney, T., Cooper, T., Shier, H., & Williamson, H. (220701). Youth participation: Adultism, human rights and professional youth work. Children and Society, 36(4), (677-690).

doi: 10.1111/chso.12526

Research funding for the past 5 years

Please note:

  • Funding is ordered by the year the project commenced and may continue over several years.
  • Funding amounts for contact research are not disclosed to maintain commercial confidentiality.
  • The order of investigators is not indicative of the role they played in the research project.

Embrace
From: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Government (DFAT)
Other investigators: Aspr Camilla Brockett, Dr Riccardo Natoli, Dr Xiaocui Lou, Dr Joanne Pyke
For period: 2023-2025
$100,000

Step Up
From: St Joseph's Flexible Learning Centre (SJFLC)
Other investigators: Dr Jane Hickey
For period: 2022-2024
Not disclosed
Future Proof: Young People, Disaster Recovery and (Re)building Communities
From: Youth Affairs Council of Victoria
Other investigators: Dr Fiona Macdonald
For period: 2022-2025
$724,110
Empowering Communities Project
From: Dept of Justice and Community Safety (VIC)
Other investigators: Ms Ruth Liston
For period: 2022-2025
Not disclosed

Prevention of violence against women – gender equality as employability skill
From: Victorian Higher Education Strategic Investment Fund
Other investigators: Dr Karen Hart, Ms Ruth Liston
For period: 2021-2022
$500,000
Apprentice Transitions – Mentoring as Social Support. Proof of Concept
From: Victorian Higher Education Strategic Investment Fund
Other investigators: Dr Fiona Macdonald
For period: 2021-2022
$90,000

Young People Adrift (SJFLC)
From: Trustees of Edmund Rice Education Australia
Other investigators: Dr Karen Hart
For period: 2020-2021
Not disclosed
Positive University Residences Cultures
From: Freedom from Violence
For period: 2020-2020
$60,500

International Student Housing and Mental Wellbeing
From: Department of Jobs, Precincts & Regions
Other investigators: Dr Xiaocui Lou
For period: 2019-2020
Not disclosed
Strengthening the Professionalisation of Youth Work through Codes of Ethical Practice
From: European Union Erasmus+
For period: 2019-2022
$70,234
Innovative practices in the prevention of youth homelessness
From: The Jack Brockhoff Foundation
For period: 2019-2020
$40,000

Positive University Residence Cultures
From: Dept of Premier and Cabinet (Vic), Victorian Govt, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), University Colleges Australia Incorporated, Mannix College
For period: 2018-2020
$153,175

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to the following organisations for their support and essential contributions to my research:

  • University Colleges Australia
  • Youth Affairs Council of Victoria

Supervision of research students at VU

Available to supervise research students

Available for media queries

Currently supervised research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
2 PhD Integrated Principal supervisor
1 PhD Associate supervisor
1 Master of Applied Research Associate supervisor

Currently supervised research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD Integrated (2) Principal supervisor
PhD (1) Associate supervisor
Master of Applied Research (1) Associate supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
1 PhD Associate supervisor
1 Master of Research Principal supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (1) Associate supervisor
Master of Research (1) Principal supervisor

Other supervision of research students

Tim has supervised 4 Masters by Research, 1 PhD student to completion

Teaching activities & experience

Tim has been Discipline Lead and Course Chair of Youth and Community programs at Victoria University teaching at undergraduate and post graduate level. He has previously taught in youth and community work programs at RMIT University and Australian Catholic University and internationally.

Key industry, community & government roles

Dates Role Department/Organisation
Aug 2002 - Aug 2022
Former Founding Chair, Current Board Member
Youth Workers Association
Dates Role & Department/Organisation
Aug 2002 - Aug 2022
Former Founding Chair, Current Board Member
Youth Workers Association