Social Policy Research Network postgraduate students

 

Student Supervisor Thesis topic / title

Tesfaye Alemayehu

M Rawsthorne
R Phillips

Challenging border crossing social exclusion: The experiences of humanitarian entrants from Sub-Sahara Africa in Sydney

Jenny Broadbent

 

Spirituality of children with life limiting illnesses

Dau-Chuan Chung

R Phillips
G Sullivan

Development of curricula about HIV/AIDS in schools of social work in Taiwan

Joanne Clarke

 

Loss in palliative care

Patricia Collins

 

Palliative care

Mayet Costello

 

The Howard government policies on violence against women

L Napier
S Goodwin

Masculinity and male carers: Implications for social work practice

Heather Dalby

 

Group work with young people at risk

Suzanne Egan

 

Feminist discourses and sexual assault services in NSW

Elaine Fishwick

S Goodwin

Juvenile justice policy in NSW 1990–2005: Rational plan of action or random reform?

John Gilroy

T Parmenter

Improving service delivery to Aboriginal people with a disability through mainstream community services

S Goodwin

Performative aspects of social work identity at the intersection of welfare policy reform and public service reform in Australia: the case of Centrelink

Jane Hasler

 

Traditional gender identity and postnatal depression

Colum Hearne

 

Territorialisation and the ageing body

Gloria Hill

T Parmenter
B Fawcett

The medicalization of behaviour in children diagnosed as having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

Susan Hewarde Belle

 

Family Law

Amanda Howard

 

Asset-based community development on the Central Coast of NSW

Amy Huang

R Phillips
Z Weber

Social work support services for sex workers: Implications for practice

Kate Huppatz

 

Classed and gendered practices in the field of caring work

Deborah Jenkins

 

Social work, criminality and moral judgement

Yong-Moon Jung

R Phillips

Tolerance of poverty and inequality: Relationship with economic distribution in Australia and Korea

Marina Jurman

 

Female skilled migrants: integration or exclusion?

Michele Knight

L Napier
Z Weber

'Mum came to me today ...' Ways of being: The alchemy of bereavement, grief and post-death contact

Sunita Kotnala

 

Young people and social enterprise

So Young Lee

Z Weber

An impact of migration on family life: A study of settlement experiences of Korean immigrant families in Australia

Margaret Mills

B Fawcett

Dementia and guardianship: Challenges in decision making and social work practice

Justine O'Sullivan

 

Social justice in social work education

Rosa Pak

M Rawsthorne

Parental stress

Sue Partridge

 

Teacher' understandings of domestic violence

R Pockett

 

Catherine Quinn

 

Social work and dementia care

F Waugh

Co-therapy within a child protection counselling service: Supporting the counsellor to support the family

Miriam Stevenson

B Fawcett

'Voices for Change': Participatory Action Research in partnership with young adults with Down Syndrome in NSW

Catherine Stone

 

Mature age students in higher education

Robyn Turnham

 

Private care provision in NSW

Stephanie Unicomb

 

 

Indunil Himali Wettasinghe

L Laing
J Irwin

Acts of transgression and socio-cultural discourses: The production of women's experiences and responses to domestic violence

M Rawsthorne

Youth workers as educators and the education of youth workers