Christine Morley
BSW(Hons) Deakin
Position: Lecturer, Social Work
Office: D1.23
Tel: +61 7 5459 4723
Email: cmorley@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Critical Social Work Theory and Practice
- Community Development
- Critical Reflection
Research areas
- Anti-oppressive practice
- Progressive social change
- Transformative learning
- Critical practice
- Human animal companionship
- Grief and loss
Profile
Christine Morley has been a social work practitioner, researcher and academic since 1998. Her main teaching and research passions include critical social work theory and practice and critical reflection. She has published widely in these areas.
In recent years her main experience has been in the field of grief and loss, particularly working with people who have been bereaved through the loss of a companion animal. Prior to this, Christine worked predominantly as a counsellor/advocate in the field of sexual assault. This continues to be a strong interest as is reflected in her PhD research which draws on feminist perspectives to critique the inadequacies of the legal system in its responses to victim/survivors of sexual assault, and uses critical reflection, to reconstruct possibilities to work for change through uncovering narratives about practitioner agency and resistance.
Publications
Many of Christine Morley's publications are available from the Coast Research Database.
Thesis
- PhD Research (work in progress), Critical postmodernism and social change: Using critical reflection to reconstruct possibilities for change orientated social work practice in the context of the legal system’s response to victim/survivors of sexual assault, La Trobe University, Melbourne.
Honours research
- Morley C. Social work and mental health: Towards a critical model of practice. Deakin University, Geelong, 1998.
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