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Jan Foster
BSocSc(SocWk) Preston.IT, MSocWk Melb.
Position: Program Leader Social Work, Senior Lecturer Social Work
Office: DG.18
Tel: +61 7 5459 4661
Email: jfoster@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Social Work
- Ethics
- Practice Frameworks
- Anti-oppressive Practice
Research areas
- Social work and health
- Psycho-social effects of critical illness on families
- Program evaluation
- Children’s and young people
Profile
Jan Foster is a social worker with over 25 years professional and academic experience. She has worked in local and federal government as well as in community organisations, spanning counselling, development, group work and case work with families, children and young people and has also taught and researched in these areas.
Jan is keenly interested in issues of social justice, access and equity. She has completed her PhD at the University of Queensland in allied health, families and critical illness. Jan coordinates the social work programs at the University of the Sunshine Coast.