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0000-0002-5141-3804
Current Organisations
Queensland University of Technology
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University of the Sunshine Coast
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-04-2022
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-06-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-08-2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-06-2021
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 23-07-2012
DOI: 10.1093/BJSW/BCR107
Publisher: University of Otago Library
Date: 09-10-2027
DOI: 10.11157/ANZSWJ-VOL29ISS2ID283
Abstract: INTRODUCTION: Wealth and income inequality is increasing in most societies, including Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, with detrimental social impacts. However, despite professional marginality, the renewal of radical social work critiques with their emphasis on structural issues highlight, the need for alternative practice responses.METHOD: We employed a critical and synthetic review of the literature to examine major trends in wealth and income inequality (both globally, and in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand) and the social work responses to increasing economic inequality.CONCLUSIONS: Resurgent wealth and income inequality has reached new crisis points in both countries but in idualising analyses and programmes render most social work responses complicit with neoliberal governance. These responses do little to reduce inequality. Alternatives promoting economic equality can be found in radical social work approaches.IMPLICATIONS: At a minimum, effective radical responses to economic inequality must advocate critical social analyses in social work education and practice, including fostering practitioners' capacity for critical reflection, policy practice and political activism.
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2005
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 08-2209
DOI: 10.1332/204986019X15491042559718
Abstract: This article seeks to explicate one form of technical rationality (ie the technological development of robotics) in social work education and practice. As advances in robotics evolve, questions are raised about the role of technicist education in reducing social work practice to a set of tasks that are repeatable, formulaic and linear (ie tasks that robots are capable of performing). We conduct a critical synthesis of the literature to explore how these parallel processes potentially create a seamless transition for social robots to replace the human social work workforce. Our analysis suggests that social workers need to reclaim a broader understanding of social work education and practice if we intend to retain human social work practitioners into the future. We argue that this is vital because critical social work practitioners are more capable than robots of meeting the espoused social justice values of social work.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-12-2022
DOI: 10.1177/10778012211054871
Abstract: COVID-19 has increased threats to women's safety in Australia and globally. This research is based on a 2020 nationwide survey about the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic and family violence (DFV) services and allied sectors throughout Australia. This study focuses on how perpetrator behaviors—coercion, control, and violence—changed and intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Two central themes identified from this qualitative analysis were the increase in complexity and severity of DFV during COVID-19. The analysis highlights how perpetrator behavior reflects the weaponizing of COVID-19 against women and children. The article concludes with a discussion about the theoretical, practice, and policy implications.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 20-01-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-09-2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S13384-023-00613-Z
Abstract: Within the neoliberal university, scholarship, education, students, academic staff, and practices are subordinated to managerial imperatives. University educators are denigrated and displaced by colonising neoliberal practices that systemically invalidate and invisibilise academic work. The present article provides an ex le of this by critically analysing the corrosive and Orwellian operations of neoliberal managerialism in higher education through the prism of my own experience of applying for ‘recognition of leadership’ in relation to teaching. I use a narrative ethnographic approach to generate new insights into the obliteration of academic practice in contemporary university contexts and to produce a counter-hegemonic discourse for understanding these processes. Following Habermas inter alia , it is argued that without radical reform, the uncoupling of the ethical and substantive dimensions of the (educational) lifeworld from systemic (neoliberal managerial) strategising will leave higher education in a state of paralysis. The analysis highlights the urgent need for resistance and provides a critical framework for academics to recognise and contest similar colonising processes occurring in their own experiences and contexts.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 20-01-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-04-2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 17-01-2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 07-07-2023
DOI: 10.1093/BJSW/BCAC128
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic led to increases in family violence in Australia and elsewhere. In response, organisations in the domestic and family violence (DFV) sector, had to adapt to the emerging public health measures and worked collaboratively to protect the most vulnerable in the community. These services, including courts, rapidly transformed their methods of service delivery that are likely to continue for some time. But what have been the implications/impacts of these rapid changes on the DFV service sector in Australia? How have these impacts informed the future needs of the DFV sector? And what is needed to strengthen this community sector of the future? This article reports on the findings of a national research project examining the impacts of COVID-19 on the DFV service sector and the adaptations and innovations that emerged in response. The study highlights that the surge in demand for services put pressure on an already overwhelmed workforce/service sector and provided an opportunity for front line workers to contribute to building a robust sector to respond to future crisis events. These findings have significant implications for future DFV sector service delivery, and for the social work profession as a whole.
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2003
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2013
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 03-2016
DOI: 10.1332/204986016X14519919041398
Abstract: The impacts of global capitalism and neoliberalism on higher education can reduce the social work curriculum to competency-based skills acquisition rather than critically reflective, transformative learning. This encourages the promotion of establishment social work approaches aimed at accepting the status quo, rather than critical forms of social work that critique the dominant social structures and power relations that cause broad social isions. The marginalisation of critical approaches reshapes social work towards conservative, market-led demands, yet an explicitly critical social work curriculum is pivotal to the claim of social work as an emancipatory project. This article presents original research that discusses the impact of an Australia critical social work programme on students’ development as agents of change. The findings suggest that developing a curriculum based on critical social science, and using critical pedagogical processes, assists students/graduates to work effectively for social justice and promotes their participation in collective social action.
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 11-2019
DOI: 10.1332/204986019X15695800764884
Abstract: Social work is a contested tradition, torn between the demands of social governance and autonomy. Today, this struggle is reflected in the ision between the dominant, neoliberal agenda of service provision and the resistance offered by various critical perspectives employed by disparate groups of practitioners serving erse communities. Critical social work challenges oppressive conditions and discourses, in addition to addressing their consequences in in iduals’ lives. However, very few recent critical theorists informing critical social work have advocated revolution. A challenging exception can be found in the work of Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–97), whose explication of ontological underdetermination and creation evades the pitfalls of both structural determinism and post-structural relativism, enabling an understanding of society as the contested creation of collective imaginaries in action and a politics of radical transformation. On this basis, we argue that Castoriadis’s radical-democratic revisioning of revolutionary praxis can help in reimagining critical social work’s emancipatory potential.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 17-11-2012
DOI: 10.1093/BJSW/BCR153
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 09-03-2021
Abstract: Social work practice and education have been significantly impacted by neoliberal governmentality, which can greatly undermine the espoused social justice mission of social work. This study explores the research questions: How might critical reflection support social work practice in neoliberal organisations? And how might critical analysis using insights from critical theorists fortify the findings of critically reflective research? This study uses critical reflection on a critical incident (from Author 2’s practice) as a methodology to respond to the first research question. It further analyses the findings of the critically reflective inquiry by drawing on relevant concepts from critical theorists to respond to the second question and expand the possibilities for practitioners to develop emancipatory practices in neoliberal organisations. The findings suggest critical reflection on the critical incident examined was effective in improving social work practice, and that additional critical analysis of the wider issues raised by the research findings may enhance social work as a value-driven, client-centred and social change-oriented profession. The article highlights the benefits and outcomes of working in a critically reflective way, and makes an original contribution to the growing literature that suggests critical reflection is a vital skill for social work practice in neoliberal organisations.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-09-2021
DOI: 10.1002/AJS4.183
Abstract: During the early stages of the COVID‐19 pandemic, reports emerged that lockdowns were increasing the prevalence of domestic and family violence (DFV) in Australia and across the world. The lockdowns and restrictions were necessary to contain the pandemic. However, leaders in the domestic family violence sector expressed concerns early during 2020 that these lockdowns would lead to the escalation of domestic and family violence. Calling it a shadow pandemic, the United Nations Secretary‐General urged all governments to prioritise the prevention of violence against women in their national response plan for COVID‐19. To gain some insight into the Australian context, a Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Centre for Justice research team conducted a nationwide survey to assess the impact of COVID‐19 pandemic on DFV services and their clients. Findings based on survey data from 362 participants from the DFV sector, including 1,507 qualitative responses, confirm the concerns raised early in the COVID‐19 pandemic. This article provides an overview of the survey results, discusses the findings in the light of national international research and highlights the resources needed to strengthen the DFV sector in the future.
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 11-2014
DOI: 10.1332/204986014X14096553281895
Abstract: This article explores possibilities and responsibilities for social work to further a social justice and human rights agenda in a neoliberal context through the prism of ethical practice. We draw on ex les from a progressive social work programme that places critical theories at the centre of curricula and links them explicitly with the distinct value and ethical base of the social work profession. We demonstrate how critical reflection facilitates students’ commitment to the values and principles of critical social work, and the ways in which this fosters resistance to the colonisation of social work by neoliberalism. We conclude with some ex les taken from our research that illustrate the emancipatory possibilities of critical reflection to enhance ethical practice in critical social work.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 20-01-2020
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 08-2016
DOI: 10.1332/204986016X1469712800977
Abstract: This article traces the emergence of a student activist group called the Social Work Action and Advocacy Network for Students at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. The article exhibits three founding members’ experiences of working collectively to achieve emancipatory goals: showcasing achievements grappling with ethical tensions of working within a group and demonstrating students’ capacity to re-author the identity of social work in a way that positions activism as central.
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 12-2021
DOI: 10.5204/IJCJSD.2069
Abstract: Prior to the COVID-19 global pandemic, domestic and family violence (DFV) had been recognised globally as an epidemic in its own right. Further, research has established that during times of crisis and/or after disasters, rates of DFV can escalate. The COVID-19 pandemic has been no exception, with emerging research from around the world confirming that the public health measures and social effects associated with COVID-19 have increased the frequency and severity of DFV in various countries. In contributing to this evolving body of literature, this paper reports on the findings of a national research project that examined the impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic on DFV in Australia. This nationwide survey of service providers indicates the public health responses to COVID-19 such as lockdowns and travel restrictions, while necessary to stem the pandemic, have had profound effects on increasing women’s risk and vulnerability to domestic violence, while at the same time making it more difficult for women to leave violent relationships and access support. However, this vulnerability is not evenly distributed. The pandemic pushed marginalised voices further underground, with many unable to seek help, locked down with their abuser. Our survey sought to lify the experiences of culturally and linguistically erse (CALD) communities Indigenous communities lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, + (LGBTIQ+) communities women locked down with school-age children those already in violent relationships and those whose first experience of domestic violence coincided with the onset of the pandemic. For logistical and ethical reasons, we could only access their voices through the responses from the domestic violence sector.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2003
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2021
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 22-12-2021
DOI: 10.3390/SOC12010001
Abstract: Child protection systems within Anglophone countries have been increasingly dominated by neoliberal managerial, risk-dominant paradigms over the past three decades. Assumed to deliver a cost-effective strategy to increase the safety of children, there are many ways this paradigmatic combination systematically undermines child welfare, participation, and well-being. This paper specifically focuses on the ways that risk assessment, neoliberal, and managerial discourses have infiltrated practice and operate to silence and exclude children’s voices. It draws on two case studies to showcase key findings of a comprehensive, state-wide research project called Empowering Children’s Voices, which was initiated by UnitingCare, a non-government organisation within Queensland, Australia, and conducted in partnership with researchers from Queensland University of Technology. It will be argued that a paradigm shift towards a critically reflective reinterpretation of risk can be far more effective at promoting child-inclusive practice and establishing children’s empowered voices as a protective factor against harm.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2007
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 08-04-2014
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-10-2022
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 22-07-2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 13-02-2014
DOI: 10.1093/BJSW/BCT004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-10-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-01-2023
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 20-01-2020
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 11-2017
DOI: 10.1332/204986016X14697128009773
Abstract: This article traces the emergence of a student activist group called the Social Work Action and Advocacy Network for Students at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. The article exhibits three founding members’ experiences of working collectively to achieve emancipatory goals: showcasing achievements grappling with ethical tensions of working within a group and demonstrating students’ capacity to re-author the identity of social work in a way that positions activism as central.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 02-10-2012
Publisher: University of Otago Library
Date: 09-09-2019
DOI: 10.11157/ANZSWJ-VOL31ISS2ID632
Abstract: INTRODUCTION: Western conceptualisations of social work are increasingly interestedin practices considered to be alternative or non-traditional to respond to oppression. While incorporating alternative methods into social work is frequently viewed as unproblematic, we suggest critical reflection is necessary to safeguard against inadvertent, culturally unsafe practice and the uncritical re-inscription of in idualised solutions.APPROACH: In this article, we explore the application of group drumming practices within social work through examination of a critical incident. While the benefits of group drumming are well documented, we use critical reflection to explore ethical challenges of incorporating group drumming practices into social work.CONCLUSIONS: We highlight strategies for social workers using alternative or non- traditional practices that support cultural humility and critical practice goals. This research holds implications for social workers interested in the potential of alternative practices while remaining committed to critical practice and cultural safety.
Location: Australia
Location: Australia
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