Hello! I am an Online Course Facilitator at UniSA Online and a UniSA LGBTIQA+ Ally, please get in touch if you or someone you know could use some support.
My role entails leading the development and delivery of online teaching for UniSA Online students. We work closely with academic units at UniSA to build vibrant and inclusive teaching and learning communities online. As a social work educator and practitioner, I am passionate about nurturing the development of confident practitioners who can work alongside diverse population groups with empathy, compassion, and a critical spirit. I consider myself an enabling educator and I use action research while teaching methods to continuously improve my enabling teaching practice.
Outside of teaching, I have worked in government and non-government sectors as a policy consultant, community planner, and frontline social worker in youth crisis and case management roles. My work is underpinned by community development approaches to fostering optimal wellbeing across the lifespan. I’m a fierce promoter of inclusive social participation as a critical building block for active citizenship and empowerment, especially the political activation of youth voice. I'm also a heavy metal scholar who applies a strengths and empowerment lens to studying subculture as a positive developmental tool in people's lives. I'm currently researching ways that youth activists use decolonial heavy metal music to dismantle oppressive systems and leverage social change in the Global South.