Using Social Research for Social Justice: An Introduction for Social Work and Human Services - Tapa dura

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Margot Rawsthorne has lectured in community development with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia, since 2005. Her research has focused on the experience of inequality, particularly shaped by gender, location, housing, and sexuality. Her research aims to create social change.

Emma Tseris is Lecturer in Social Work and Policy Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, where her research and teaching areas include critical mental health theory, mental health and gender inequality, and narrative research methodologies.

Amanda Howard teaches and researches in all things related to communities at the University of Sydney, Australia. That includes encouraging closer, fairer, and more inclusive connections, community planning for disasters, and mobilising community power. Her research is about getting unheard stories and voices on the policy and practice agenda.

Mareese Terare is a Bundjalung Goenpul Woman, Mother, Grandmother. She is currently employed as an academic in the Social Work Program at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her specialist areas of research and teaching consist of Aboriginal healing frameworks and ways, interpersonal trauma, counselling, social justice, children’s rights, and human rights.

Alankaar Sharma is a social work researcher and educator. He currently works as an academic at the University of Wollongong, Australia. His research and teaching are inspired by social justice, feminism, and critical social work. Confronting and ending oppression against marginalised people is at the heart of his social justice-oriented social work practice.