Dr Kate Seymour

Lecturer in Social Work

College of Education, Psychology and Social Work

+61 8 82015973

kate.seymour@flinders.edu.au

Social Sciences South (339)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Kate is a qualified social worker with direct practice experience in a range of metropolitan and regional areas including child protection and work with adult offenders. Her research interests and expertise centre on the discursive construction of gender, masculinities and violence within the context of policy and practice in preventing, and responding to, violence.

Qualifications

PhD (Deakin University)

Masters of Social Science (Criminology)

Bachelor of Social Administration

Bachelor of Social Science (Human Services)

Key responsibilities

Academic Lead, Strengthening Social Work Practice Education (project)

Peer Evaluator (Teaching)

Research expertise

Criminology

Gender Studies

Masculinity

Policy and administration

Social work

Research interests

Masculinities and violence
Gender(ed) violence
Policy constructions of social problems
Critical social work

Topic coordinator

SOAD3102 Field Education 1

SOAD3107 Identity, Self and Agency

SOAD2011 Social Work & Reflective Practice

Supervisory interests

Critical criminology

Critical masculinity studies (scholarly distinction from masculinity or men's studies)

Critical social work

Domestic violence, criminal justice system responses

Gendered violence

Social policy

Violence

Higher degree by research supervision

Current

Associate supervisor: 1607 (1)

Completion

Associate supervisor: 1602 (1)

Publications

Professional engagement

Peer Reviewer:

Australian Journal of Social Issues
Journal of Gender Studies
Australian Social Work
Journal of Homosexuality
Sage Open.

Member, Centre for Research on Men and Masculinities (CROMM), University of Wollongong, NSW.

Expert for media contact

Crime

Culture

Deviance

Gender studies

Justice

Social policy/welfare

Violence

Violence, Gendered Violence, Gender and Masculinities

Available for contact via

+61 8 82015973

kate.seymour@flinders.edu.au

Or contact the media team

newsdesk@flinders.edu.au

+61 8 82012092

0427 398 713

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Media expert

Phone

Media expertise

Crime
Culture
Deviance
Gender studies
Justice
Social policy/welfare
Violence

Interests

Violence, Gendered Violence, Gender and Masculinities

Further information

Current research grants

Office of the Guardian for Children and Young People ($40,000), 11/4/2018. Project: Understanding, exploring and evaluating a community visiting scheme for children in care. CIs: L Hallahan, K Seymour, S Wendt.
EPSW College Research Grant ($10,000), awarded 19/12/2017. Project: Working with complexity: Social work, professional judgement and adult protection. CIs: K Seymour (Lead) and L Hallahan.
EPSW College Research Grant ($12,000), awarded 19/12/2017. Project: Male violence – Educating for violence prevention. CIs: B Wadham, K Seymour, A Hutton.
Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (ANROWS), Perpetrator Interventions Research Stream ($93,080), awarded, 1/5/2017. Project: Engaging Men: Invitational Narrative Approaches.CIs: S Wendt, K. Seymour, F. Buchanan.
School of Nursing & Midwifery ($17,650) & the Sammy D Foundation, 2017. Project: Men’s violence: Health, education, relationships, change. CIs: A Hutton, B Wadham, K Seymour.

Kate Seymour CV Sept 2018 (pdf)