Human Services and Social Work Academic, Feminist, Vinyl Collector and Avant Gardener. Views my own
Brisbane, Queensland
Joined August 2017
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Social work is a tough gig! How can we develop a more unified understanding of how to support front line staff? If you're a social worker and a manager/supervisor I'd love to talk with you about how you prevent burnout and enhance worker well being. #wellbeing #socialwork
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Please share! Funded PhD on Turnover and Retention in Social Work. Details below 👇 Thank you! ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcollege…
What is compassion and how might it relate to social work? Check out this review of a new text "Social Workers and Compassion." tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Great paper around care ethics, decision making and child protection - tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Great looking workshop coming up in Sydney around connection and professional practice humanconnection.net.au/works…
Can simulation provide a worthwhile placement experience in social work? You betcha! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Great to see this sham policy coming to light
Bill Shorten holds up Commissioner Catherine Holmes’ Report into #Robodebt saying “the previous govt & senior PS gaslighted the nation & its citizens for 4 & a half yrs”
Shorten pays tribute to victims, FL workers, whistleblowers & welfare advocates. Thank you Bill.
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Recently Dr Michelle Newcomb supervised and mentored our Social Work student, Lilly Keen, through her Honours thesis on how the problem of youth homelessness is represented within existing policy in Queensland. Findings have implications for youth homelessness policy reform @QUT
Such a delight to supervise this honours thesis. Top work Lilly!
Recently Dr Michelle Newcomb supervised and mentored our Social Work student, Lilly Keen, through her Honours thesis on how the problem of youth homelessness is represented within existing policy in Queensland. Findings have implications for youth homelessness policy reform @QUT
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Titanic tourists sink in submarine: whole world watches as navies spare no expense to find them
Hundreds of migrants sink in overcrowded boat: Hope you can swim, losers
Very excited to be involved in this mentoring scheme at QUT. So far the experience has exceeded expectations and I hope it's a model more uni's use for early and mid career women.
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This is what #newscorpse papers do. They target people, primarily women eg @Lisa_Wilkinson @BrittHiggins_ Grace Tame, Gillian Triggs, Julia Gillard & Meghan Markle & grind them into the ground.
How any considered, thinking person reads let alone buys this crap is astonishing.
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17 educators in Canada and Australia share their experiences encountering students in distress and highlight the ways they have adopted their teaching practices over time.
(Free pdf download for the first 50 downloads provided by HERD)
tandfonline.com/eprint/DNWVX…
This is a great musing on complaint and review of the book. "She shows that some individuals by their very existence are registered as complaints: to exist as a disabled person in an inaccessible space, for example, or as an unsmiling woman" sydneyreviewofbooks.com/revi…
Indigenous social workers ... my PhD student is seeking Indigenous social workers to speak to for his study. He's talking to a wide range of SWers about trauma and he pays 😃
Email: [email protected] or DM me for details
We need to change the model of student placements - it excludes many people!
'We can no longer justify unpaid labour': why uni students need to be paid for work placements theconversation.com/we-can-n… via @ConversationEDU
This is a great opportunity for any ECR's who are interested in media translation. I can't recommend it enough - please spread the word!
abc.net.au/radio/programs/to…