RESEARCH

Here is a list of my research. More of the research details are available. Or just ask me about them. Your contribution and advice is always welcome. You are also welcome to participate. My research topics, include: mental illness, unemployment, education, family bonds, and environment and technology.

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MY MENTAL ILLNESS RESEARCH

The modern world’s most dangerous megalomanic came from Tasmania. We must pursue the socio-psycho-cultural-political-economic-organisational-historical threads for the tragedy of the Port Arthur massacre. We need an ongoing analysis of ‘the streets’ of Hobart. Explicitly ‘street life’ expresses a cultural comment and is the perfect place to look for cracks.

By Christiaan McCann

My Mental Illness Research

Sing in Disability-Community Choir. An eight year study of being in a famous (city) disability-community choir.

Accessed professional singing teachers by attending free choirs. How can person on welfare obtain professional knowledge in the community?

Sat on board that does not work well. What are modern technologies of power for people against disability?

A 15 year study of members of a mental health institution. Using power analysis examine how mental illness is perpetuated in society and what role does a psycho-social rehabilitation play in institutionalising mental illness.

Built a cubby house and let homeless people sleep in it. Can society solve issues of homeless easily?

Regularly visited soup kitchens in Hobart. What is the scope for community around sites for the underclass?

Other Research

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MY EDUCATION RESEARCH

“School is a way out”.

By Christiaan McCann

My Education Research

Funded My Own Experiments. What is wrong with applying your own ethics to experiments you conduct?

Used Free Online Education. Is it possible to make groundbreaking discoveries without the support of large institutions or government funding?

Researched Ethics Committees. What was the impact of the increase in structured experiments in the post war period?

Lost Faith In My Doctor. Why do we trust doctors and why do we ignore their arrogant behaviour?

Friended A Chat Bot. How close can you get to a chat bot measured by how much you miss them when they are gone?

I Liked Soup Kitchens So Much I Bought My Own. What are the 100 top tips for co-ordinating a soup kitchen?

Graduated from Three Universities. How diverse is completing an Economics degree at La Trobe University, an Arts degree at University of Tasmania and a Social Work degree at Deakin University.

Went for Aboriginal Walkabout. Can you travel by train through outback Queensland into the Dreamtime? Does it depend on your approach to cultural boundaries? Does it require a relationship with the land?

Went looking for a Psychopath and found a society. Are psychopaths created by society? What are the social determinants of psychopaths?

Read Brain Pickings by Maria Popova. What is going on in New York literature for a group of Jewish writers?

Read all the recommended readings at University? How many recommended readings does the average student read at university?

Joined A Junior Savings Club at Aged 46. How does poor budgeting skills impact urban poverty?

Other Research

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MY FAMILY BONDS RESEARCH

“Family can be anyone.”

By Christiaan McCann

Lived in a Cult: How is controlling parenting and child abandonment used for cult bonding. How important is shaming in cults? How do you leave a cult? Try this: Find someone stronger and try to get them to join.

All Men’s Singing Group: Many ‘professional men’ end up in social groups in the evenings. How do teachers let their hair down after dark? Hint: they struggle!

Had a Criminal for Dinner: What are some crime codes and signals? Can the law be trusted to sort out family matters? Define crime family?

Friend Committed Suicide: I was the only one crying at her funeral. What is the nature of children abandonment in rich families and what are the differences in poor families? How does capital relate to family nurturing?

Operated Street Shelter: What is couch surfing? What is hopelessness? What is homelessness? Why I didn’t tell capitalists I found some answers.

Kane and Abel: My brother is a con man. He is a chronic gambler and rabid consumer of sex work. He laid out the pitfalls to an ethical life. I could build stepping stones around his life, I mean what are older brothers for.

End-of-Mum: Listened to mum discuss her End-of-Life Choices. What is there to learn when someone discusses their own death? (Hint: Dying is a slow process).

Care Strategy: Cared for a step-parent who hated me for 21 years. They had a disability caused by a road accident. What is the nature of care? (Hint: it’s a continuum)

Interviewed about 3000 people over 8 years at a crisis centre. What is charity? How is charity institutionalised in Australia? What role do global organisations play in reifying poverty?

Ugly Situation: Had mentor for 5 years who was a social worker and centre director. What to do when your mentor is found to misrepresent their role? Hint: change your identity.

Cultural Study: Lived with underclass in a tropical coast industrial township sharing experiences of disability, work injury and ways to mask pain.

Meal with Homeless Man: Invited a man who is homeless for diner on Friday’s for about 6 months. 2021.

The Australian Family Party: Attended underclass Australian family parties. Why does the Australian capitalist chauvinist rule the tongs at an Australian BBQ? What is wrong with Australian culture? What lies at the heart of the Australian male chauvinist?

Lived with Aborigines. Lived with Aboriginal mob in the Kimberley’s near Kununurra for 3 months. 1995.

Family Technological Needs: Drove a gangster and his family around in their car for 6 months. What are the internal struggles of a gangster? How is crime impacted by family pressures?

Sibling rivary: Protected my siblings by receiving a higher proportion of the prevailing child abuse in a violent household. How can children respond to violence? How stepping up provides agency in the face of violence, taking back from the violence?

Loss Grief Trauma and Shame: Organised step fathers funeral. How is death a relief?

Funeral Crier: Was openly expressive of felt grief at my dad’s funeral. How to subvert funeral proceedings and own your grief? What is the best poem to recite, and song to sing at your father’s funeral?

My step father was an honest and violent man: How to define violence? What is the power of violence? What is more powerful than violence?

Violence gone crazy: Why is the act of child abuse controlled. What are common patriarchal technologies?

Unconditional Care: What are experiences of children caring for an elderly parent who was neglectful? What are care strategies including moral care?

Structural violence: What is the nature of violence? We all agree on a faulty system, however why don’t we face the particular systems which harm us?

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MY UNEMPLOYMENT RESEARCH

“Poverty Is Work.”

By Christiaan McCann

Started a Band. Formed a punk band at a psycho-social rehabilitation centre. What are the implications of forming a punk band at a psycho-social rehabilitation centre in Tasmania?

Organise a Woodcraft Class. Started classes for woodwork at two community centres. One class was at a Men’s Shed with a pre-existing group. Another class was at psycho-social rehabilitation centre. What is the experience of an informed class at a community centre?

Operate a Community-Led Soup Kitchen: Coordinate a soup kitchen. Is the key to charity soup kitchens free labour? What are alternative approaches to running a soup kitchen.

Enliven Community Choirs: Committed to the sound/song of an expanding variety of community choirs. Community culture can be rough, especially for the vulnerable. Corporate interests can find community space easy to exploit. What are alternative ways to approach systems of power operating in the evening at these sites?

Women participating at public street sites: Searched for things to give to women on the ‘streets’. What is the nature of poverty and social isolation for women in Tasmania?

Family execution: Parents denied the reality of unemployment. How do baby boomers confront stigma produced by the post-industrial age about their children.

Easy to Read: How does focus on money relate to low literacy. I worked with a political board for a community group in Tasmania, the leader was semi illiterate and used money to maintain their own power.

Government Crime: I was hunted by robodebt. I was netted by the computer program. It judged me and executed a fine. I was exiled to a file in the bureaucracy which I did not agree with! My innocent plea was never heard.

Day of a life of a Prisoner: Helped someone get out of prison. Was surety for Prisoner through the Supreme Court. What is the journey of a recidivist offender?

What can’t you learn anything from Old Men: Organised a woodwork class at a mens shed for people with cognitive impairment. The old men in charge didn’t like it, because it wasn’t their idea and systematically worked on getting rid it. How does the patriarchy use procedures and protocol to eliminate opposing ideologies, and how much harm are they prepared to cause.

Charity activity: Picked up donuts from a donut shop and drove around night shelters. How do night shelters work?

Economic relations: Turned a hobby for woodcraft into a sole business. Can someone earn a living as an artist in Australia?

Lived on the dole: What are some experiences of living in poverty in Australia?

Underclass activity: Shopped at op-shops exclusively for 10 years. How did the middle class subjugate second hand markets in Australia?

Went garage saling every weekend for two years. How does the second hand market support the underclass?

There is a tool for everything: Built a small wood workshop with tools from garage sales. How to teach yourself a rare trade?

Completed the NEIS Scheme. How does a government employment program work in practice?

Completed several work-for-the-dole programs. How does the bureaucracy institutionalise free labour?

Visited psychosocial rehabilitation centre for 16 years. Why does the government ban the word mad? What is the social narrative of asylums in Australia?

Charity activity: Accepted a load of imported sneakers for the poor from my podiatrist. What does it take to work with professionals for a charity?

Longitudinal study: Maintained 16 year relations with people who spent their lives institutionalised in mad houses. What is the care continuum? How does the NDIS try to change the nature of care?

Visited men’s home for lunch every week day for 18 months. What are the main problems for men in society?

Travelled across Australia working odd jobs. What is the nature of underclass labour in Australia?

Economic pitfalls: Souped up my Suburu Forester GT. What are some experiences of Australian hoon culture?

Technology environment: Used Learn French app everyday for a year. What is the point of learning French?

Had a mentor who was a director of a psycho-social rehabilitation centre. How can knowledge be shared between professionals?

Other Research

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MY ENVIRONMENT & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH

“Look out for the changes!”

By Marty McFly

LOrganise an anarchy group. Co-ordinate a group with no hierarchy. Where is the boundary of class structure in Australia? How to subvert systems of power? How communities need to change at the centre?

Day at the museum. Visited MONA, Museum of Old and New Art, systematically, analysing each work of art on display, for its individual experiences. What is visiting MONA as a consequential tourist? How do tourist visitors become part of the art on display. 2018.

Looking for Homelessness: Lived on the streets. Why do capitalists reject any form of free accommodation? What is anti-social about homelessness?

Quantified Self. Used a Fitbit tracking device. Research for use of technology to increase self awareness and fitness. Wore Fitbit, and measured steps and sleep patterns. Incorporated technology into daily life, which improved physical mental and emotional performance.

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