School of Social Work and Social Policy, Bendigo
As well as the full program of the Bachelor of Social Work and Bachelor of Human Services being offered at Bendigo campus, members of staff offer Honours, Masters and PhD supervision in a range of postgraduate research topics. Some current postgraduate research projects being supervised by our staff include:
- What are women’s experiences of changes in meaningfulness during midlife?
- How do social workers who use a spiritual perspective apply this in practice
How are complementary and alternative therapeutic approaches being used by social workers who work with depressed women?
- What is women’s role in social change in small rural communities and what are the implications for community work?
- Young women’s perception of risk of familial breast cancer
- The experience of bullying in rural communities
- Psychosocial well-being and community singing
- Therapist experiences of working with young women with anorexia
- The lived experience of women sharing birth stories
The Bendigo Social Work and Social Policy team has a track record of successfully supervising research projects to completion and the following are some of the most recent ones:
Contracting of services in Australia and Taiwan
Suicide prevention programs in rural communities
Women from out-of-home care backgrounds – what contributes to leading successful lives
The employer’s perspective of tertiary education work placements
Online learning frameworks for higher education staff
Staff proposed or current postgraduate research:
Grace Brown – Educating social workers for rural practice
Rob Townsend – Adult education and the development of social capital in regional communities.
Natasha Long – Role of organisations in shaping the professional identity of social work graduates
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