17/05/2023
"Meet Dr. Mike Clare, one of our esteemed researchers at our Centre."
Dr. Mike Clare was appointed Lecturer in Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Sussex in 1974, becoming Head of the School between 1980 and 1985. He then moved to the University of Western Australia in 1987; he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1993 and Associate Professor in 2001.
He retired as a Social Work and Social Policy Professor in late 2009, having been a Social Work educator for over 35 years. His continuing areas of research, policy, and practice interest are professional supervision and family-based practice, including foster care and adoption, elder abuse, and cross-cultural issues.
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17/05/2023
“Introducing Dr. Celine Harrison, one of our esteemed researchers at our Center."
Dr. Celine Harrison began her professional career as a psychologist in 1973 with the Department of Child Protection. Following a hiatus while her two children were little, she returned to the workforce in 1983 as a graduate welfare officer in Geraldton in child protection. In 1986, she returned to Perth, completed her Bachelor of Social Work, and worked at the Princess Margaret Hospital and at the Social Work Department at King Edward Memorial Hospital.
She retired from her position as Head of Social in 2012, and in 2013 she undertook a PhD, which she completed in 2019. She now works pro bono and was a founding member of a network of advocates and community legal centres to promote representation for parents whose children are subject to statutory intervention. "The key themes that I bring to my identity and conduct as a social worker are that it is fundamentally a human activity, that relationships matter, and that we need to foreground and reflect on decision-making, perception, reasoning, and judgement in all our interactions", she said.
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17/05/2023
“Meet Dr. Susan Young, director at our centre!"
Dr. Sue joined the SWSP in 1994 and taught community development, social policy, and research methods. Her practice experience has mainly been in remote, rural, and regional WA, and more recently in association with schools and school social work. She convenes the School Social Work Practice Group (SSWPG) WA branch of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW). Her active research interests are in Ally Work and Decolonising Social Work education and practice; and in supervising Higher Degree Research students whose topics vary from community responses to service provision separately in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, and other locations; policy analyses of social work field education, health provision and school-based practices. Follow us on LinkedIn to learn more about our centre.
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