Dr Selma Macfarlane

STAFF PROFILE

Position

Casual Sessional Academic

Faculty

Faculty of Health

Department

School of Health & Social Dev

Campus

Online

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, Royal Melb Inst. of Technology, 2007
Bachelor of Social Work, Monash University, 1994

Contact

Publications

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2021

'Resistant to change?': using critical reflection to analyse positionality within a neoliberal academic environment

K Robinson, S Macfarlane

(2021), Vol. 9, pp. 437-450, Critical and Radical Social Work, C1

journal article
2020

The radical potential of Carl Jung's wounded healer for social work education

S Macfarlane

(2020), pp. 322-332, The Routledge Handbook of Critical Pedagogies for Social Work, London, Eng., B1

book chapter
2018

Social work and the natural environment: embedding content across curricula

J Boddy, S Macfarlane, L Greenslade

(2018), Vol. 71, pp. 367-375, Australian social work, Abingdon, Eng., C1

journal article

Trauma-informed education practice in Cambodia

Zoe Wyatt, E Hoban, Selma Macfarlane

(2018), Vol. 8, pp. 62-76, International journal of Asian social science, Karachi, Pakistan, C1

journal article
2017

Being trauma-informed in Cambodia: practice considerations for professionals working with children and trauma

Zoe Wyatt, E Hoban, Selma Macfarlane, Mike Nowlin

(2017), Vol. 7, pp. 442-448, International journal of social sciences and humanity studies, Singapore, C1-1

journal article
2016

Growing Old in the Lucky Country

Selma Macfarlane, Tina Kostecki

(2016), Vol. 35, pp. 54-58, Social Alternatives, Brisbane, Qld., C1

journal article
2014

Mental health, social work and professionalism

S Macfarlane

(2014), pp. 206-217, Social work practice for promoting health and wellbeing: critical issues, London, Eng., B1

book chapter

Critical social work as ethical social work: using critical reflection to research students' resistance to neoliberalism

S Macfarlane, C Morley

(2014), Vol. 2, pp. 337-355, Critical and radical social work, Bristol, Eng., C1-1

journal article
2013

Methodology for the evaluation of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program

L Gibbs, P Staiger, M Townsend, S Macfarlane, L Gold, K Block, B Johnson, J Kulas, E Waters

(2013), Vol. 24, pp. 32-43, Health promotion journal of Australia, Clayton, Vic., C1-1

journal article
2012

The nexus between feminism and postmodernism: still a central concern for critical social work

S Macfarlane, C Morley

(2012), Vol. 42, pp. 687-705, British journal of social work, Oxford, England, C1-1

journal article
2011

Teaching critical reflection: a tool for transformative learning in social work?

S Macfarlane, U Bay

(2011), Vol. 30, pp. 745-758, Social work education: the international journal, London, England, C1-1

journal article

Crafting communities: promoting inclusion, empowerment, and learning between older women

S Macfarlane, J Maidment

(2011), Vol. 64, pp. 283-298, Australian social work, London, England, C1-1

journal article

Older women and craft: extending educational horizons in considering wellbeing

S Macfarlane, J Maidment

(2011), Vol. 30, pp. 700-711, Social work education, London, England, C1-1

journal article
2010

Repositioning social work in mental health: challenges and opportunities for critical practice

S Macfarlane, C Morley

(2010), Vol. 11, pp. 46-59, Critical social work, Ontario, Canada, C1-1

journal article
2009

Opening spaces for alternative understandings in mental health practice

S Macfarlane

(2009), pp. 201-213, Critical social work : theories and practices for a socially just world, Crows Nest, N.S.W., B1-1

book chapter

Debating the capacity of information and communication technology to promote inclusion

S Macfarlane, J Maidment

(2009), pp. 183-200, Theorising social exclusion, London, England, B1-1

book chapter

Debating the capacity of information and communication technology to promote inclusion

J Maidment, S Macfarlane

(2009), pp. 95-104, Theorising Social Exclusion, B1-1

book chapter

Debating the capacity of information and communication technology to promote inclusion

J Maidment, S Macfarlane

(2009), pp. 95-104, Theorising Social Exclusion, B1-1

book chapter

Craft groups : sites of friendship, empowerment, belonging and learning for older women

J Maidment, S Macfarlane

(2009), Vol. 19, pp. 10-25, Groupwork an interdisciplinary journal for working with groups, London, England., C1

journal article

Craft groups: sites of friendship, empowerment, belonging and learning for older women

S Macfarlane, J Maidment

(2009), Vol. 19, pp. 10-25, Groupwork, London, England, C1-1

journal article
2008

The continued importance of a feminist analysis: gendered inequalities visible through a critique of Howard government policy on domestic violence

S Macfarlane, C Morley

(2008), Vol. 47, pp. 31-37, Just policy, Melbourne, Vic., C1-1

journal article
2006

A comparison of the efficacy and safety of olanzapine and risperidone in the treatment of elderly patients with schizophrenia: an open study of six months duration

C Ritchie, E Chiu, S Harrigan, S Macfarlane, M Mastwyk, G Halliday, H Hustig, K Hall, A Hassett, D O’Connor, J Opie, V Nagalingam, J Snowdon, D Ames

(2006), Vol. 21, pp. 171-179, International journal of geriatric psychiatry, London, England, C1-1

journal article
2003

The impact upon extra-pyramidal side effects, clinical symptoms and quality of life of a switch from conventional to atypical antipsychotics (risperidone or olanzapine) in elderly patients with schizophrenia

C Ritchie, E Chiu, S Harrigan, K Hall, A Hassett, S Macfarlane, M Mastwyk, D O’Connor, J Opie, D Ames

(2003), Vol. 18, pp. 432-440, International journal of geriatric psychiatry, London, England, C1-1

journal article

Funded Projects at Deakin

No Funded Projects at Deakin found

Supervisions

Principal Supervisor
2016

Shirley Bennell

Thesis entitled: Nyungar people creating nourishing terrains despite past policies of injustice

Doctor of Philosophy, NIKERI Institute

Gregory Paul Roberts

Thesis entitled: Into the Mystic - Bereaved parents, love and spontaneous creativity.

Doctor of Philosophy (Health & Social Development), School of Health and Social Development

Krystyna Kostecki

Thesis entitled: Resistance and Reconstruction: Older Women Talk about Childhood Sexual Abuse

Doctor of Philosophy (Health & Social Development), School of Health and Social Development