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Margaret Alston OAM is Professor of Social Work and Head of the Department of Social Work at Monash University in Melbourne, where she established the Gender, Leadership and Social Sustainability (GLASS) research unit. Her research interests are gender, social work, rural issues and climate change.
Uschi Bay is a Senior Lecturer in Monash Universitys Department of Social Work. Her research area is community sustainability, and so far her research has focused on desert and coastal communities in Australia. Uschi is an active member of the Gender, Leadership and Social Sustainability (GLASS) research unit at Monash University.
Liz Beddoe is an Associate Professor of Social Work in the School of Counselling, Human Services and Social Work at the University of Auckland. Liz has long-standing interests in critical perspectives on social work education, professional supervision in health and social care, the sociology of professions, the professionalisation project of social work, interprofessional learning and practitioner research.
Wendy Bowles is an Associate Professor at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. She has been a social worker, mostly in the disability field, since 1980. Since moving to a rural and academic life, her teaching and research interests have covered the broad terrain of social work theory, practice and ethics, with a focus on rural and regional practice.
Linda Briskman is Professor of Human Rights Education at Curtin University in Perth. Her main fields of advocacy and research are Indigenous rights and asylum-seeker rights. Publications include Social Work with Indigenous Communities (Federation Press, 2007) and Human Rights Overboard: Seeking asylum in Australia (Scribe, 2008, with Susie Latham and Chris Goddard), which won the 2008 Australian Human Rights Commission award for literature.
Mollie Burley is the Interprofessional Collaboration Team Leader at Monash Universitys Department of Rural and Indigenous Health, Moe, Victoria. She also works as a consultant in La Trobe Community Health Service, focusing on increasing and enhancing student placements, and facilitating education and research for staffall underpinned by an interprofessional collaborative practice model.
Lesley Chenoweth is Professor of Social Work and Head of Logan Campus at Griffith University, Brisbane. From her early years as a social worker in rural Queensland, her research has focused on rural service delivery and rural practice.
Suzanne Hodgkin is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Social Policy in the La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria. Her practice experience is in family and childrens services. She researches in the areas of gender, social capital, ageing and intergenerational care.
Yvonne Jenkins is a founding member of a rural housing cooperative (1996) and long-time board member of the Association of Resource Co-operative Housing (ARCH), the peak New South Wales statewide body advocating for rental housing cooperatives. Yvonne graduated with a Graduate Certificate in Housing Management and Policy at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research in 2002.
David McCallum is Associate Professor and coordinator of Sociology at Victoria University in Melbourne. His recent research interests have included historical studies of childhood behaviour disorders and the history of Aboriginal child removal in Victoria. He is a member of the Sociological Association of Australia and the Research Group in Sociology of Law of the International Sociological Association.
Jane Maidment is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology in New Zealand. She previously spent ten years working in Australia. Jane has research and writing interests in field education, practice skills, ageing, and using craft as a vehicle for social connectedness.
Robyn Mason is a Senior Lecturer and social worker with practice experience in rural Australia. Her doctoral research was based on a national study of rural womens support services. She is currently based at Monash University, and is National Director of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
Jeni Warburton is the John Richards Chair of Rural Aged Care Research at La Trobe University in Wodonga, Victoria. Jeni has over 20 years experience in research into social policy, healthy productive ageing, volunteering and the community.
Sarah Wendt is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy and a member of the Research Centre for Gender Studies at the University of South Australia. Her research interests are violence against women, child sexual assault, elder abuse and rurality.
