Dr. Sharlene Nipperess
Details
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College: School of GUSS
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Department: School of GUSS
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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sharlene.nipperess@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0002-9258-7990
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
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.
Research fields
- 4409 Social work
- 5001 Applied ethics
- 4407 Policy and administration
UN sustainable development goals
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 3 Good Health and Well Being
Supervisor projects
- Investigate multidisciplinary practices within a community legal context
- 13 Mar 2024
- Denaturalising heatwaves: a gendered analysis of social vulnerabilities in urban heatwaves and public cool spaces as a primary heat health measure/policy
- 1 Aug 2023
- Investigate innovations to practice implemented during the pandemic of 2020 and 2021 by RMIT social work industry partner agencies.
- 17 Jul 2023
- School social workers: Working with youth suicide in Australian secondary schools
- 14 Jan 2022
- Why Cant I See My Children
- 15 Jul 2021
- Pregnant, Parenting and a Long Way From Home: International Students Accessing Pregnancy Related Care in Victoria
- 25 Mar 2021
- Pathways and Barriers to Mental Health Services Utilisation among Croatia- and Bosnia and Herzegovina-born Migrants in Melbourne, Australia
- 20 Nov 2020
- Youth Suicide: What Guides Social Work Practice in Victorian Secondary Schools in Preventing and Responding to Youth Suicide?
- 18 Feb 2020
Teaching interests
As a social work educator, Sharlene teaches across the Bachelor and Master of Social Work programs, specialising in 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, both in the first year of the Bachelor programs. Sharlene supervises higher degree research in the social work and human services disciplines.
From 2017 to 2020, Sharlene was the Program Manager for BH105 Bachelor of Social Work (honours) and BH106 Bachelor of Social Work (honours) / Bachelor of Social Science (psychology).
