Professor Helen McLaren

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MY NEW EMAIL - helen.mclaren@acu.edu.au

To contract or collaborate with me, please email me at Australian Catholic University where I have accepted the appointment as Professor of Social Work and National Head of the Social Work Academic Unit. While my position is Melbourne Campus, the role requires me to be actively engaged and highly mobile. Hence, I continue to undertake and collaborate in research and PhD supervisions across Australia, including as a Full Academic Status Professor at Flinders University.

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My Research (some examples of my research):

• Exploring Ageing in Prison, funded by Office of Ageing Well SA
• Developmental Evaluation, Co-Design and Prototyping of the Linker Service in SA to support women >50 years and sole parents experiencing poverty, funded by Wyatt Trust
• Eight studies on Australia’s first experiences of the Mockingbird Family^TM model of foster care: 1. Professional Quality of Life; 2. Social Network Analysis; 3. Being in a Mockingbird Family^TM; 4. South Australian Experience, 5. Children's experiences; 6. Building trust; 7. Revisiting Recognition Theory, 8. Keeping Siblings connected, funded by Life Without Barrie
• Four studies on Serious Mental Illness community supports: 1. Employment, 2. Meaningful Relationships; 3 IADLs; 4 Housing, funded by Flourish Australia
• Building Multicultural Relations at Adelaide Mosque, AMISA. funded by Stronger Together Grants, DPC SA.
• Women's public sector leadership: Learning from what works (Indonesia focus), funded by Australia-Indonesia Institute
• Defining survivors'' quality of life to measure perpetrator intervention effectiveness, funded by ANROWS.

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PhD Supervision - 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, children & community: i.e., women's & children's social protection, gender & development, community responsibility, lived experience participatory action research, evolutionary prototyping of intervention programs, quality of life, wellbeing, human rights, etc., Are you seeking a supervisor? Send me your Academic Transcripts, CV and Research Proposal to helen.mclaren@acu.edu.au.

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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 on 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.