STAFF PROFILE
Dr Sharlene Nipperess
Position:
Senior Lecturer
College / Portfolio:
Design and Social Context
School / Department:
DSC|School of GUSS
Phone:
+61399252944
Campus:
City Campus
Sharlene Nipperess is a senior lecturer in social work in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT.
Sharlene is a social work educator and researcher. She teaches across the Bachelor and Master of Social Work programs, focusing on learning and teaching in the first year. She currently teaches History and trends in social work, an introductory social work course, and Ethics and reflexive practice, an interdisciplinary ethics course. As a social work researcher, Sharlene focuses on three broad but interrelated areas: a) social work ethics, with a focus on human rights-based practice, a critical ethics of care and environmental justice; b) social work policy and practice research, with a focus on forced migration and superdiversity, mental distress and disability, and homelessness; and c) social work scholarship of teaching and learning, with a focus on critical multicultural practice, social work doctoral education and technology in social work education and practice. Sharlene has co-edited two books Critical multicultural practice in social work: New perspectives and practices (2019) and Doing critical social work: Transformative practice towards social justice (2016). She is Book Editor (social work) and member of the Australasia-Pacific Board of the international journal Ethics and Social Welfare and a member of the RMIT Design and Social Context College Human Ethics Advisory Network.
- Doctor of Philosophy, Curtin University
- Graduate Certificate of Higher Education, Deakin University
- Bachelor of Social Work, James Cook University
- Bachelor of Arts, James Cook University
- David, C.,Nipperess, S.,Wiesel, I.,West, R. (2022). Enhancing support services for people with disability and complex needs living in permanent supportive housing In: Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation Melbourne, Australia
- Hodgson, D.,Watts, L.,Cordoba, S.,Nipperess, S. (2021). Social Work Doctoral Education in Australia: The Case for Further Development In: Australian Social Work, 74, 96 - 109
- O'Keeffe, P.,Nipperess, S. (2021). Out of Place, in a Hostile Space: ‘Australian Values’ and the Politics of Belonging In: Ethics and Social Welfare, 15, 100 - 115
- Hodgson, D.,Goldingay, S.,Boddy, J.,Nipperess, S.,Watts, L. (2021). Problematising artificial intelligence in social work education: Challenges, issues and possibilities In: British Journal of Social Work, 52, 1878 - 1895
- Watson, J.,Nipperess, S.,Johnson, G. (2021). Social Work Education and Homelessness: Mobilising Academia–Industry Partnerships to Create a Homelessness Subject In: Australian Social Work, , 1 - 12
- Goldingay, S.,Hodgson, D.,Boddy, J.,Nipperess, S.,Watts, L. (2020). Online and Blended Social Work Education in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia: Negotiating the Tensions In: Advances in Social Work and Welfare Education, 21, 62 - 74
- Nipperess, S.,WILLIAMS, C. (2019). Critical multiculturalism in practice In: Critical multicultural practice in social work: New perspectives and practices, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, Australia
- 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
- Watson, J.,Nipperess, S. (2019). Nationless, homeless and seeking asylum: Considerations for social workers 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
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
1 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions4 PhD Current Supervisions
Human Rights (in relation to critical social work, people experiencing mental distress, people from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the environment) Social Work Ethics.
- 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 2022)
- Leaving Rehab: Enhancing Transitions into Stable Housing. Funded by: AHURI Research Grants 2019 (CAT 1 Generic) from (2019 to 2021)