Publications

Moselen, T., Notting, M., Healy, D., Lim-Carter, I., Snelgrove, B., Anderson, J., & Büsst, C. (2025). Redefining strength: The role of a noncontact boxing intervention in improving social connectedness, mental health and wellbeing for disengaged young men (16–25 years). International Journal of Men's Social and Community Health, 8(2), 95-106. https://doi.org/10.3138/ijmsch.2024.0012.​

Dissanayake, B.L., Faggian, R. & Healey, M. (2025). A Participatory Systems Inquiry into Land use Planning in Regional Victoria: Insights from Causal Loop Diagramming. Syst Pract Action Res 38, 24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-025-09733-2. 

Healey, M., Miller, M., Lea, J., & Fraser, L. (2025). Using Systems Methods for Systemic Problems: A Case Study of Poor Lawyer Wellbeing. Evaluation Journal of Australasia, 25(3), 213-232. ​https://doi.org/10.1177/1035719X251358851 For the openly accessible final proof version use this link. 

Erskine, K. and Healey, M. (2022) Conversations that count: Lessons from evaluating a men’s digital mental health response during COVID-19. Evaluation Journal of Australasia, 25(1), 18-29. Access the full article here.

Resources

Thriving Country Kids: Social Network Analysis (SNA) and systemic advocacy in rural, regional and remote Queensland
FPC was a key member of a Social Network Analysis Project (SNAP) team as part of the Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership (TQKP) Country Collaborative. We were engaged as a learning partner to bring our expertise in SNA to help the team. Specifically, to build skills in techniques that can better understand the collaborations that underpin grassroots and strategic systems change efforts contributing to child wellbeing and development in rural, regional and remote Queensland. The group identified that a disconnect is often experienced between metropolitan and country communities and that centralised urban decision-making processes are often applied broadly across more remote areas.

This toolkit, hosted on the TQKP website, introduces how organisations can combine SNA and systemic advocacy to promote systemic change.
Problems to Possibilities Canvas
The Canvas is made of up two parts. Part 1 involves developing a systems map to support reframing a problem into a set of patterns. Part 2 takes those patterns and creates a space for brainstorming solutions to work towards an optimistic new state. 
The Canvas can be used in a variety of contexts to help develop a shared understanding of a problem, bring different perspectives together, or create a range of new ideas. This is particularly well suited to workshop based settings, or as part of innovation or design-style processes.
Monitoring Systems Health Resource
This is an introductory resource that provides some ideas on how to think about tracking progress in complex systems. Using the idea of 'temperature checks' as a metaphor, it provides guidance on developing a systems map to understand what you are influencing and how key indicators can be measured.
Navigate systems change by crux: A provocation
When outlining ways to plan for changing systems, many frameworks or approaches will start with the notion that we need to set a 'North Star'. This comes from the history of the North Star's use in navigation and its fixed place in the sky aided sailors on their journey. Whilst appropriate in those contexts, it suggests that a fixed view of the future is possible, or even desirable.
Would something that is more accurately tied to our reality be useful? What if, we used a systems crux to help us navigate?
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