The Alfred Felton Research Program: Promoting the Safety and Well-Being of Children and Families supports a lively postgraduate research program, with training and supervision offered to Social Work research students at both Masters and PhD levels.
The Program is also heavily involved with the coursework-based Master of Advanced Social Work, offered by Social Work at the University of Melbourne.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) students
Christine Barrett School social work in Australia
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.
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.
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.
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.
Karen White Listening to Boys: An approach to developing Child and Family centred practice.
Joanie Smith Details to be confirmed.