STAFF PROFILE
Dr Christina David
Lecturer, Social Work and Human Services
Christina David is a lecturer in social work in the Social Work and Human Services cluster and teaches in both the under and post graduate programs. Her research interests relate to disability, human rights based approaches, community inclusion, and social support policy and practice including individualised funding approaches and the impacts of marketisation on those using and providing services. Christina's PhD thesis examined the extent to which individualised funding and support approaches can deliver on their human rights promises in relation to choice, control and self determination. This exploration of the space between policy and practice identified the conditions in which rights are promoted or neglected, where and how opportunities and resources enable or limit choice, and where critical economic, social and cultural challenges are situated.
Christina is currently working on a number of research projects partnering with community sector organisations. These include an 18 month action research project co-designing opportunities for social participation and inclusion in the NDIS context.
- Teaching and supervision
- Applied social research
- Social work scholarship
- PhD RMIT University
- GradDipBus (OrgDev), RMIT
- Bachelor Social Work, La Trobe University
- Bachelor Education, Victoria College
- Disability - tertiary rehabilitation
- Learning and Teaching Advisor - RMIT
- Ramcharan, P.,David, C.,Marx, K. (2020). You are here! Negotiating liminality in place in the context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme In: Qualitative Social Work, 19, 359 - 379
- David, C.,Laragy, C.,Hudson, E. (2019). Individual Funding for People With Mental Health Issues: Opportunities, Tensions, and Outcomes In: Mental Health Policy, Practice, and Service Accessibility in Contemporary Society, Medical Information Science Reference, Pennsylvania, United States
- David, C.,Maylea, C.,Nipperess, S.,Hirsch, A. (2019). Beyond the silos: Towards transformative social work practice with people from refugee backgrounds living with a disability In: Critical multicultural practice in social work: New perspectives and practices, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, Australia
- Hirsch, A.,Maylea, C.,David, C.,Nipperess, S. (2019). The changing face of disability and refugee services and policy in Australia: Implications for social work In: Social Work and Policy Studies: Social Justice, Practice and Theory, 2, 1 - 20
- David, C.,Nipperess, S.,Maylea, C. (2017). Submission to the Joint Standing Committee Inquiry into Transitional Arrangements for the National Disability Insurance Scheme In: Refugee Council of Australia Canberra, Australia
- David, C.,West, R. (2017). NDIS self-management approaches: opportunities for choice and control or an Uber-style wild west? In: Australian Journal of Social Issues, 52, 331 - 346
- Laragy, C.,David, C.,Moran, N. (2016). A framework for providing information in individualised funding programmes In: Qualitative Social Work, 15, 190 - 208
- Ramcharan, P.,David, C.,Jones, M.,Moors, R. (2015). 'I am a person not a job.' Establishing Core Competencies for Change at BSL. Final Report. In: Brotherhood of St Laurence Melbourne, Australia
- Ramcharan, P.,David, C.,Jones, M.,Moors, R. (2015). I'm a person not a job: establishing core competencies for change in Brotherhood of St Laurence Residential Aged Care In: Brotherhood of St. Laurence Melbourne, Australia
- De La Harpe, B.,David, C. (2012). Major influences on the teaching and assessment of graduate attributes In: Higher Education Research and Development, 31, 493 - 510
2 PhD Current Supervisions
- Enhancing support services for people with disability and complex needs living in permanent supportive housing. Funded by: Lord Mayor's Charitable Fund 2018 onwards- Grant from (2020 to 2021)
- Masters by Research Scholarship in social work with CISVic, Doncare and South East Community Links (Jinny Mcgrath). Funded by: Doncaster Community Care Counselling Center (Doncare) Scholarship from (2019 to 2021)