Dr Helen McLaren
Senior Lecturer
College of Education, Psychology and Social Work
My Research (some current examples):
1.Building Multicultural Relations at Adelaide Mosque, Adelaide Mosque Islamic Society of South Australia . Funding from Department of Premier and State, South Australia, Stronger Together Grants.
2.Women's public sector leadership: Learning from what works (Indonesia focus). National competitive funding, Australia-Indonesia Institute Grant Round 2018-19, project in Australia and Indonesia (link to more info)
3.Defining quality of life indicators for measuring perpetrator intervention effectiveness. National competitive funding, Australian National Competitive Grant, ANROWS Perpetrator Interventions Research Priorities 2017-19 (link to more info)
4.Women's & children's protection policy mapping in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. International research collaboration with Public Policy & Administration, and Social Welfare departments, Padjadjaran Universitas, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia (link to more info)
5.Evaluation Research: NDIS ILC ‘I am Woman’ personal development program, Minda Inc. South Australia.
6.Flinders University consortium of the Families and Children Activity Expert Panel, Australian Institute of Family Studies/Dept. Social Services (Cwth).
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PhD Supervision - note, in 2020 I was awarded the Vice-Chancellor prise for Excellence in Higher Degree Research Supervision
Email me if you want to research issues impacting women and children: social administration, social policy, social sciences - or, women's & children's protection, gender & development, community development, participatory engagement, social inclusion, quality of life, wellbeing, human rights, etc., Are you wanting to study phenomena in Australia, Asia or Pacific regions? If you are seeking a supervisor, send me your Acacemic Transcripts, CV and Research Proposal.
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Prior to joining Flinders University:
- Researcher, former South Australian Dept. Community Welfare; Australian Centre for Child Protection, UniSA; Ministerial Advisory Committee: Children with a Disability
- Forensic & psycho-social therapist, Child Protection Services, Adelaide Women’s and Children’s Hospital; Victim Support & Forensic Investigator, rape and sexual assault, SA's Justice Portfolio.
BSocWk (hons)
PhD
- 2020, awarded Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in HDR Supervision (+ prize money $5k) in recognition of Higher Degree Research supervision in 2019
- 2016, awarded Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (+prize money $1k, for outstanding contribution in 2015
- 2015, appointed as Faculty Scholar in Learning and Teaching (+prize money $10k) to undertake and influence innovation advancements in learning and teaching of strategic importance to the university.
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Resarch member of Orama Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing
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Research member of Open Door Veteran Transition Integration Wellbeing, Flinders University
- Associate research member of CASPR, Climate and Sustainability Policy Research Group, Flinders University
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Professorial Fellow, Centre for Decentralization and Participatory Development Research Universitas Padjadjaran (CDPD), West Java Indonesia
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International Advisory Member, Asian-African Association for Women, Gender and Sexuality (AAAWGS)
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PhD Advisor for the Social Work discipline and for the Social Inquiry and Wellbeing research section within the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work (CEPSW)
- Educator in Research Methods, CEPSW.
Intersectional analysis of women living with Vesico and Recto- Vaginal fistulas in Kenya -
Life chances of children and young people in children's homes in Sri Lanka -
Child protection social work in Indonesia in children's orphanages, in the contexts of decentralisation and deinstitutionalisation -
Pro-ana/Mia, Online spaces as a sanctury for the eating disordered -
Employment and meaningful enterprise of individuals recovering from mental illness -
Bordeaux analysis of the self-help kit aimed to support South Australian youth tranitioning from state care to independent life -
Social work, child protection and protective factors in Mongolia -
Microfinance and women's empowerment in Bangladesh -
Exploring facilitators and barriers to disability service engagement of refugee and asylum seekers -
Tasting Australia: Vietnamese student parents’ experience of living in limbo - A Janus head analysis -
Handling economic abuse cases towards a collaborative, comprehensive and gender-sensitive case management in Makati City, Philippines -
Helen's memberships include, but are not exhaustive:
- Families and Children Activity Expert Panel, Australian Institute of Family Studies/Department of Social Services
- Professorial Research Fellow, Centre for Decentralization and Participatory Development Research, Universitas Padjadjaran, West Java Indonesia
- Founding Research Member, Social Work Innovation Research Living Space, Flinders University, South Australia.
- Editorial Board Member, Kumawala: Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat, Universitas Padjadjaran, ISSN: 2620-844X
- Editorial Collective, Social Alternatives journal, ISSN: 0155-0306
- Scientific committee member - World Conference on Women's Studies WCWS2019
- InternationaInternational Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)
- 'Social Work Innovation Research Living Space' (SWIRLS), The Social Work Research Centre at Flinders University
- Development
- Gender studies
- Indonesia
- Social issues
- Sustainability
- Welfare
- Women
- Gender Based Violence
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Quality of Life
- SDGs
- Social Justice
- Women and Work
- Women's and Children's Protection
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