Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Social Work and Social Policy, Bendigo
Also coordinate the Centre for Professional Development which offers training in such areas as critical reflection, supervision, working with spirituality and using personality type.
Teaching profile for 2008:
Year 2: Social Work and Reflective Communication, Year 3: Community work, Year 4: Social Work and Social Diversity
Research Interests:
Pastoral Care Networks Project: This project involves working with local palliative care services and communities in two regional areas of Victoria; Loddon Mallee and Barwon Southwest to develop and pilot training in Spirituality/Pastoral care and evaluate the effectiveness of the training. This is a three year project from 2006–2009, funded by the Department of Health and Ageing through Bendigo Health Care Group.
Health Promoting Palliative Care: This project is a pilot project that aims to generate a health promoting attitude to death and dying in three Department of Human Service Regions. It is funded through the Palliative Care Unit.
Spirituality and work. This uses material from workshops run through the Centre for Professional Development on spirituality and work for health and welfare professionals.
Publications:
Books
Fook, J. and Gardner, F. (2007) Practising Critical Reflection: A Handbook, Open University Press, London
White, S., Fook, J. and Gardner, F. (Eds.) (2006) Critical Reflection in Health and Social Care, Open University Press, London
Gardner, F. (2006) Working with Human Service Organisations: Creating Connections for Practice Oxford University Press, Melbourne
Book chapters:
Gardner, F. (2006) Using Critical Reflection in Research and Evaluation in White, S., Fook, J. and Gardner, F. Critical Reflection in Health and Social Care, Open University Press, London
Articles:
Gardner, F. and Nunan, C. (2007) How to develop a Research Culture in a Human Services Organisation: Integrating Research and Practice with Service and Policy Development, Qualitative Social Work.
Gardner, F. (2007) Creating a Climate for Change, International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management Volume 6, Issue 7.
Gardner, F., Lehmann, J., Brown, G. and Brooks, M. (2005) Noticing Change: Developing strength-focused tools in a mental health service, Australian Social Work 58 (1) pp15 - 25
Gardner, F. (2003) User-Friendly Evaluation in Community-Based Projects The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation 18 (2) pp71 – 89
Gardner, F (2003) Critical Reflection in Community-Based Evaluation 2 (2) pp 197 - 212
Gardner, F. and Lehman, J (2002) But wait! There’s still more! Some unaccounted for aspects of qualitative evaluation and research, Qualitative Research Journal 2 (2) pp16 - 27
Gardner, F. (2002) Shared Action: Stronger communities, safer children, Children Australia 27 (2) pp23 – 28
Gardner, F. (2001) Social Work Students and Self Awareness: How does it happen? Reflective Practice 2 (1) pp27 - 40
Community involvements:
Bendigo Sister Cities Committee – development of a strategic plan. Provision of group and individual supervision using a critical reflection approach.
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