Associate Professor Helen McLaren
Associate Professor
College of Education, Psychology and Social Work
My Research (some examples of current and former research):
- Examining Australia’s first experiences of the Mockingbird FamilyTM model of foster care, incorporating four studies: 1. Professional Quality of Life; 2.Social Network Analysis; 3.Being in a Mockingbird FamilyTM; 4.South Australian Experience
- Building Multicultural Relations at Adelaide Mosque, Adelaide Mosque Islamic Society of South Australia . Funding from Department of Premier and State, South Australia, Stronger Together Grants. (link to more info)
- Women's public sector leadership: Learning from what works (Indonesia focus). National competitive funding, Australia-Indonesia Institute Grant Round 2018-19, project in Australia and Indonesia (link to more info)
- Defining quality of life indicators for measuring perpetrator intervention effectiveness. National competitive funding, Australian National Competitive Grant, ANROWS Perpetrator Interventions Research Priorities 2017-19 (link to more info)
- Women's & children's protection policy mapping in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. International research collaboration with Public Policy & Administration, and Social Welfare departments, Padjadjaran Universitas, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia (link to more info).
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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 Acacemic Transcripts, CV and Research Proposal.
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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.
BSocWk (hons)
PhD
- 2020, awarded Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in HDR Supervision (+ prize money $5k) in recognition of Higher Degree Research supervision in 2019
- 2016, awarded Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (+prize money $1k, for outstanding contribution in 2015
- 2015, appointed as Faculty Scholar in Learning and Teaching (+prize money $10k) to undertake and influence innovation advancements in learning and teaching of strategic importance to the university.
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Research member of Flinders Institute of Mental Health and Wellbeing
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Research member of Open Door Veteran Transition Integration Wellbeing, Flinders University
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Professorial Research Fellow, Centre for Decentralization and Participatory Development Research Universitas Padjadjaran (CDPD), West Java Indonesia
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International Advisory Member, Asian-African Association for Women, Gender and Sexuality (AAAWGS)
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PhD / Higher Degree by Research Coordinator, College of Education, Psychology and Social Work (CEPSW)
- Educator in Research Methods, CEPSW.
I am the:
- Higer Degrees Research Coordinator, College of Education, Psychology and Social Work.
Intersectional analysis of women living with Vesico and Recto- Vaginal fistulas in Kenya -
Life chances of children and young people in children's homes in Sri Lanka -
Child protection social work in Indonesia in children's orphanages, in the contexts of decentralisation and deinstitutionalisation -
Pro-ana/Mia, Online spaces as a sanctury for the eating disordered -
Employment and meaningful enterprise of individuals recovering from mental illness -
Bordeaux analysis of the self-help kit aimed to support South Australian youth tranitioning from state care to independent life -
Social work, child protection and protective factors in Mongolia -
Microfinance and women's empowerment in Bangladesh -
Exploring facilitators and barriers to disability service engagement of refugee and asylum seekers -
Tasting Australia: Vietnamese student parents’ experience of living in limbo - A Janus head analysis -
Handling economic abuse cases towards a collaborative, comprehensive and gender-sensitive case management in Makati City, Philippines -
Helen's memberships include, but are not exhaustive:
- Families and Children Activity Expert Panel, Australian Institute of Family Studies/Department of Social Services
- Professorial Research Fellow, Centre for Decentralization and Participatory Development Research, Universitas Padjadjaran, West Java Indonesia
- Founding Research Member, Social Work Innovation Research Living Space, Flinders University, South Australia.
- Editorial Board Member, Kumawala: Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat, Universitas Padjadjaran, ISSN: 2620-844X
- Editorial Collective, Social Alternatives journal, ISSN: 0155-0306
- Scientific committee member - World Conference on Women's Studies WCWS2019
- InternationaInternational Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)
- 'Social Work Innovation Research Living Space' (SWIRLS), The Social Work Research Centre at Flinders University
- Culture
- Family
- Gender studies
- Mental health
- Religion
- Violence
- Women
- Multicultural wellbeing
- Quality of Life
- SDGs
- Violence against Women
- Women & Childrens Protection
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