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Department of Social Work
Building C, Level 4
900 Dandenong Road
Monash University
Caufield East, Melbourne

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Department of Social Work
Monash University
PO Box 197
Caulfield East,         Victoria 3145
Australia

 


Emeritus Professor Thea Brown

We are delighted to announce that Thea Brown has beebn appointed an Emeritus Professor of Monash University.  

Professor Thea Brown was appointed as Professor of Social Work in 1988, serving as Head of the Department, the Director of International Programs and Deputy Head and now Professor, Research. Prior to this she worked as a social work manager in health services in NSW, in health and local government in Victoria, and as an academic in Social Work at Melbourne University.

She has had a long interest in social work education. At Monash she established the first Distance Education Degree in Social Work internationally, the on campus and distance education coursework MSW and the BSW and MSW degrees accredited both in Australia and in Singapore and delivered in Singapore. She has written for and edited the Australian journal "Advances in Social Work and Welfare Education"; she has undertaken accreditation of undergraduate and post graduate Social Work courses including those in Hong Kong and Malaysia; she has contributed to international conferences on Social Work Education.

After 25 years of dedication to the Department we now look forward to an ongoing association with Thea albeit in a different role.


Peter Boss Honours Prize

Congratulations to Laura Rubin who is the winner of the Peter Boss Honours Prize for 2012.  This is an annual award to the best overall Honours result.   Well Done Laura.



Leon Piterman Award

Congratulations to Miriam Locke (our DE BSW Honours graduate) who has won the Leon Piterman Award of $1500 for 2013 for her Ph.D. Thesis on parenting first born babies, "Putting the Baby Down".   Congratualtions Miriam. 



Addressing Filicide:  Inaugural International Conference for Cross National Dialogue.

Monash Prato Centre, Tuscany
Thursday 30th and Friday 31st May 2013
Information:  Filicide Conference

 


Credit and Recognition of Prior Learning

Master of Social Work (Qualifying)

Ready for a change? Our new degree is a passport to a new career, an exciting, challenging program designed for people wanting to work for human rights and social justice.

Master of Social Work (Forensic Studies) 

An exciting new postgraduate degree: the Master of Social Work (Forensic Studies) offered in conjunction with Monash University’s Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science.