Social Impact

Professor Ian Goodwin-Smith

Professor Ian Goodwin-Smith is a Matthew Flinders Professor of Social Impact and Director of the Centre for Social Impact at Flinders University. He is a researcher in the fields of social policy and social service with extensive experience in research and evaluation relating to social service improvement, systems reform and social policy. Ian has a history of working collaboratively with government and non-government organisations, communities and people who have been marginalised, and a long track record of research partnerships, both internationally and in all Australian states and territories, in metropolitan, country and remote settings.

Professor Svetlana Bogomolova

Professor Svetlana Bogomolova is a Deputy Director at the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) Flinders. She is a researcher and educator in the area of health and social marketing. As a cross-disciplinary researcher, she is responsible for driving health agenda (one of three priority areas) at the College of Business Government and Law.

Most of Prof Bogomolova’s research is conducted in close collaboration with industry end-users through a process of co-design and co-creation. Svetlana's discoveries feed into the practice of industry partners (e.g., numerous national and international not-for-profit and private organisations), and inform government policies and campaigns about protecting consumer interests and encouraging healthier choices.

Associate Professor Selina Tually

Associate Professor Selina Tually is a Deputy Director with the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) Flinders. She is a geographer, social researcher and evaluator with experience in housing, homelessness and community development research spanning 20 years. Selina’s expertise is co-designing and co-creating better programs, places and outcomes for disadvantaged and vulnerable people and communities, which for many years now has involved policy and practice relevant work to end homelessness and to address the disadvantages some people and groups face.

She is a passionate advocate for equity, inclusion and connectedness, centred on amplifying the voice of lived and living experience in systems and programs of support, and in research.

Senior Lecturer Sandra Robinson

Sandra Robinson is the Course Coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Social Impact and MBA Social Impact.

Sandra has more than 30 years’ experience in leadership, training and teaching, mentoring, program design and direction, collaboration and communication in education, Local Government, the Not-For-Profit sector, and state government. Her roles have included teaching in school communities, Community Development in local councils, management of a state-wide social impact measurement framework, Chief Executive leadership of a unique social impact social enterprise, and manager of a new state government program connecting people to community and systems and measuring social impact.