Just Another Do Gooder

In this episode I talk with Deanne Dale about trends in clinical supervision and her supervision practice. In a lengthy career Deanne has worked as a frontline clinician, team leader, senior manager, consultant and educator in a range of NSW … Continue reading →

In this episode I talk with Jack Whitney, an emerging social work leader, and current convenor of the NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby. Jack graduated with first class honours from the University of Sydney in 2018. Whilst studying he … Continue reading →

From humble beginnings in the Royal Australian Navy, Suzanne Smith rose to a number of Naval Base leadership roles, being the Commanding Officer of HMAS Harman,  the Commanding Officer of HMAS Penguin, and Officer in Charge of the Royal Australian … Continue reading →

Hilde Fiva Buzungu is both an anthropologist and an interpreter.  She is currently in Australia as a visiting PhD Research Fellow from Norway, writing up her research on social work with families where one or both parents have limited proficiency … Continue reading →

Social worker Norma Tracey is 80 years old and still working. She is an important part of the history of hospital social work in Australia- but has also done much more. Her remarkable career began in 1960 as a Family … Continue reading →

The topic of this podcast is supervision and how we can do it better. I talk with two expert educators in the field, Pam Cohen and Marie Heydon. Pam Cohen was the senior staff supervisor at St Vincent’s Hospital in … Continue reading →

My guest on this podcast has lived most of her adult life in a small country town. But it wasn’t the life her parents had mapped out for her. She was born into a prominent, conservative, Irish-Italian Catholic family in … Continue reading →

My guest on this podcast is Kristen Holzapfel, and the subject of our conversation is a book she wrote entitled Selfless. It is a story of Kristen’s work on the frontlines of social work- particularly in child protection. After several … Continue reading →

Adele Sheridan-Magro, my guest in this podcast, came to social work later in life. Her first degree in sociology was undertaken in her forties: specialising in women and gender studies. She was particularly taken by post-stucturalism, including the theorists Foucault, … Continue reading →

Kim Hobbs has had a long career in oncology social work. She is now a clinical specialist social worker in gynaecological cancer at a large teaching hospital in western Sydney. Building upon a solid base of clinical care, Kim advocates … Continue reading →

Dr Catherine Camden Pratt is a Lecturer in Art Therapy in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University. Catherine’s clinically-led teaching is informed by her private art therapy practice in which she works mainly with women, … Continue reading →