Sharlene Nipperess

Dr Sharlene Nipperess is an associate professor in social work at RMIT University, Melbourne. She is a qualified and experienced social worker and has worked as a social work educator and researcher for over twenty years. Her teaching and research focuses on critical approaches to practices that protect and promote human rights and work towards social and environmental justice. Sharlene has published on social work ethics, critical multicultural and human rights-based practice, environmental justice and the role and impact of technology in social work. She engages in collaborative and participatory research primarily in the areas of migration and displacement, mental distress, disability and family and carer lived experiences, and housing precarity and homelessness. Sharlene has co-edited three books Practice skills in social work and welfare (2023), Critical multicultural practice in social work (2019) and Doing critical social work (2016) and is a member of the Design and Social Context College Human Ethics Advisory Network.