Our research students
Our graduate research students are engaged in a wide variety of research topics in the social work discipline. Under the supervision of expert staff, our students have the opportunity to make new and significant contributions to the field.
The profiles below provide a snapshot of our graduate research students.
Research Students: Current
- Nicole Hill - PhD candidate
- Joanie Smith - PhD candidate
- Karen White - Listening to Boys: An approach to developing Child and Family centered practice
- Joanie Smith - Consequences and Accountability in Men's Behaviour Change
- Julie Hall - Families experience of keeping children healthy: A study of non-attending patient families in out-patient general paediatric clinics of a children's hospital.
- Nicole Tokatlian – The CAP@H project (Children and parents @ Hospital)
- Wendy Paulusz – Investigating the interface between the schooling and family systems of vulnerable children with learning problems".
- Anita Morris- 'Safety and resiliency at home: voices of children from a primary care population'
- Kristy Koehne
- Katherine Levi Sylvan
Research Students: Completed
- Christine Barrett School social work in Australia (Completed)
- Jennifer Duffield - The Interplay of Work and Home: How workers in family support cope when they experience similar life events to those experienced by clients. Completed.
- Philip Gillingham - The implementation of technocratic approaches to Social Work practice in the field of Child Protection. Completed.
- Ronda Johns - Child Neglect: building a child and family intervention model from theory, research and practice.
- Michelle Meyer - Family decision-making and child sexual abuse: towards a conceptualisation of practice.
- Devaki Monani - A refuge from violence: a comparative analysis of Australian and Indian programs for women and children escaping domestic violence. Completed.
- Dr Menka Tsantefski - Holding the mother holding the baby: The provision of psycho social support to substance dependent women in the first year of the infant’s life.(Completed)