Carole Zufferey
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 141037 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Carole Zufferey |
| NOMBRES | Carole |
| APELLIDO | Zufferey |
| FIRMA | ZUFFEREY C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9610-7168 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Critically examining assumptions about ‘authentic assessments’ when assessing social work interviewing skills
The notion of authentic assessment has dominated higher education discourse in recent years, including in disciplines such as social work. In this article, we critically examine assumptions behind ‘authentic assessments’ drawing on our experience in employing paid actors and peers in assessing the interviewing skills of postgraduate social work students. While peers have long been used in social work education, the use of paid actors is increasin…
Being in Court
A central concern for the social work profession has been related to preparing students for social work practice in the legal context of court settings. This article focuses on a university-court teaching initiative that supported social work students to attend the General Magistrates Court, to witness court proceedings for people charged with criminal offenses and bail hearings for people being held in custody and seeking release. This paper hig…
Engaging Social Work Students in a Drug Intervention Treatment Court Experience
Governing failed neoliberal subjects
This paper uses Carol Bacchi’s ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ (WPR) framework to explore representations of women’s mental health in federal and South Australian mental health policies. It argues that mental health policies govern women through neoliberal discourses that individualise mental health and illness while neglecting the social structural factors which significantly influence mental health outcomes and health equity. In a ‘self…
Use of Actors in Simulations for Social Work Education
Purpose: This article reports on a scoping review that synthesized literature over the last 15 years on the use of simulations in social work education and training with the aim of identifying trends and important considerations for teaching and learning. Method: This scoping review covering a total of 44 articles examined the characteristics of publications, the purposes for the use of simulations, the simulated roles, the targets of simulations…
Supervision on Country
Radicalising hope to resist the neoliberalisation of social work
The influence of neoliberalism is taken for granted in social work and has increasingly shaped social work practice, research and education. This article examines hope in social work and the importance of radically theorising hope to challenge the neoliberalisation of social work. Social work has a dual function that both resists and accommodates neoliberal agendas. Hope is a multidimensional concept. Hope is predominantly individualised in socia…
The Long Shadow of Intimate Partner Violence
Ongoing health issues influence the postseparation lives of survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). This study identified associations between health following IPV and demographic, housing, employment, and social participation factors. Survivors of IPV in Australia were surveyed. Logistic regression assessed factors of interest with physical and mental health conditions. Six hundred and fifty-eight women participated. Physical health issues…
Social Participation After Intimate Partner Violence
This large mixed methods study adopted a citizenship lens to examine the impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) on women's social participation. The study found that social participation in all categories contracted dramatically during IPV and, in most cases, never regained pre-violence levels. The study also found that following initial social withdrawal, many women went on to reengage in new ways, including through political activism on gend…
Questioning policy representations of women’s alcohol consumption
This study draws on Carol Bacchi’s What’s the problem represented to be? (WPR) framework, to deconstruct policy discourses of women’s alcohol consumption. It examines Australian policies such as in the National Alcohol Strategy (2019–2028) and Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol ( NHMRC, 2009, 2020 ). It found that policy discourses particularly focus on the effects of women’s alcohol consumption as ‘harms’ to unbor…
Unruly female spectators at the Melbourne Cup in Australia
This paper critically examines competing media discourses about women’s alcohol consumption as spectators at the Melbourne Cup, a historically prestigious annual Australian horse race. Taking a feminist poststructural lens, this paper identifies how print media representations of the female drinking subject can provide a multitude of subject positions that can be contradictory and subversive, offering possibilities for resistance to idealised mid…
Lasting legacies
“Forgotten Australians” are the estimated half a million children who were placed in institutional care in Australia from the 1920s to the 1980s. Increasing numbers are entering older age but many are poorly positioned to age well and with the supports they need. This is often because the lasting effects of childhood institutional care have contributed to poor housing outcomes, including housing insecurity, reliance on social housing, prevalence …
Homelessness, Social Exclusion and Health
This monograph is written by Dr Fiona Cuthill, Senior Lecturer in Nursing Studies at the University of Edinburgh. The first chapter begins with the image of cardboard ‘mattresses’ in front of marble doorways, arguing that people sleeping rough in urban spaces are a familiar sight and the losers of global capitalism. Rough sleepers are constructed as being marginalised local citizens and undocumented destitute migrants, who are ‘othered’ as ‘stran…
Communal parenting, marriage and children in Papua, Indonesia
This article provides new social work knowledge about the parenting practices of Papuan parents, which includes their perceptions of marriage and having children. This qualitative ethnographic study included participant observation and individual semi-structured interviews with 49 Papuan parents (34 mothers and 15 fathers), who were interviewed across five different Papuan regencies: Supiori, Jayapura, Jayawijaya, Boven Digul and Mimika. A key fi…
Rethinking Women’s Mental Health After Intimate Partner Violence
This article reports on mixed methods research into intimate partner violence (IPV) and women's mental health. Using an online national survey and life history interviews, quantitative and qualitative data analysis demonstrates how IPV negatively impacts women's sense of self, with other multiple losses in relation to income, work, housing, and social participation further undermining recovery into the long term. The feminist concept of sexual po…
The Removal of Children in Domestic Violence
A range of service providers support mothers and children who are experiencing domestic violence (DV). However, research tends to focus on the role of service providers in child protection services and DV services. This potentially excludes valuable insights from a wider range of nongovernment service providers on the systemic issues that mothers experiencing DV and child separation may experience. This research explored the perspectives of 16 di…
Family homelessness in regional and urban contexts
Lesbians’ embodied and imagined homes
This article explores how nine lesbian women in Australia embody and imagine ‘home’. Using visual methodology, each woman was invited to bring along an artefact and tell a story about how it represents home for her. The methods for producing the data involved a focus group and individual interviews. Following a school of thought known as the sociology of emotions, the data were analysed for insights connected to participants’ emotions. The study …
Family Experiences of Caring for Relatives Who Have Received Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
The research literature on family members’ experiences of the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is limited. This article explores the perspectives of family members whose relatives had received ECT. Drawing on a social constructionist perspective, this qualitative study collected data using in-depth interviews with nine families in South Australia, to examine how family members constructed the supports and challenges they experienced. The re…
Intimate Partner Violence and Housing
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an extreme example of gender inequality that compromises women’s citizenship. This article discusses the effects of IPV on women’s housing circumstances based on the findings of a large national Australian survey. The analysis found that IPV erodes women’s citizenship, which includes their access to safe and affordable housing, connections to “home,” and participation in community life. Drawing on notions of gen…
Need or right
Red dust homelessness’
Diverse Meanings of Home in Multicultural Australia
Questioning Representations of Homelessness in the Australian Print Media
Social workers have an important role in questioning how social problems such as homelessness are represented in public discourse. Using Carol Bacchi's policy analysis framework, this paper analyses representations of homelessness and service provision in the Australian print media, by examining assumptions underlying these representations, gaps and silences; the effects of these representations; and how these can be defended and disrupted. The s…
Social Work Education and Children
It is well documented that social work graduates feel unprepared for work with vulnerable children, especially those involved with child protection systems. Initiatives of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) emphasise the importance of including a focus on children within the Australian social work curricula. This article considered whether social work education was preparing graduates to respond more effectively to children by ex…
Identity and everyday experiences of homelessness
It is important for the complexities of homelessness to be considered when constructing policy or practice relating to people who are without safe and stable accommodation. These complexities can be loosely categorised around the definitions, causes and experiences of homelessness. While definitions and causes are topics of current debates, study of the lived‐experiences of homelessness remains an area that is largely under‐researched. This paper…
Intimate Partner Violence and Housing
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an extreme example of gender inequality that compromises women’s citizenship. This article discusses the effects of IPV on women’s housing circumstances based on the findings of a large national Australian survey. The analysis found that IPV erodes women’s citizenship, which includes their access to safe and affordable housing, connections to “home,” and participation in community life. Drawing on notions of gen…
Questioning Representations of Homelessness in the Australian Print Media
Social workers have an important role in questioning how social problems such as homelessness are represented in public discourse. Using Carol Bacchi's policy analysis framework, this paper analyses representations of homelessness and service provision in the Australian print media, by examining assumptions underlying these representations, gaps and silences; the effects of these representations; and how these can be defended and disrupted. The s…
Responses to Homelessness in Australian Cities
Responses to homelessness in Australia are provided by a range of government and nongovernment services. The present study examined the experiences of social workers within these diverse services. The article discusses how social workers make meaning of their professional identity and responses to homelessness in contemporary practice and policy settings. The findings of a qualitative study of 39 social workers employed in Adelaide, Melbourne, an…
Need or right
Red dust homelessness’
Not knowing that I donot know and not wanting to know’
In this article I critically reflect on how white power and privilege constitutes my personal power and professional experiences as a social work practitioner and social work educator in Australia. I explore my white privilege in the context of the colonization of Australia and social work practice in child protection
Rethinking Women’s Mental Health After Intimate Partner Violence
This article reports on mixed methods research into intimate partner violence (IPV) and women's mental health. Using an online national survey and life history interviews, quantitative and qualitative data analysis demonstrates how IPV negatively impacts women's sense of self, with other multiple losses in relation to income, work, housing, and social participation further undermining recovery into the long term. The feminist concept of sexual po…
The Removal of Children in Domestic Violence
A range of service providers support mothers and children who are experiencing domestic violence (DV). However, research tends to focus on the role of service providers in child protection services and DV services. This potentially excludes valuable insights from a wider range of nongovernment service providers on the systemic issues that mothers experiencing DV and child separation may experience. This research explored the perspectives of 16 di…
Making Gender Visible
Social workers’ bodies and identities are gendered. This article examines gender relations in social workers’ accounts of their practices using data from a qualitative study that focused on social workers’ responses to homelessness in three Australian cities. Themes in the data relate to essentialist notions of gender; gender functioning as an invisible form of oppression; heterosexual assumptions in client—worker relationships; and the preferabi…
Family homelessness in regional and urban contexts
Supervision on Country
Unruly female spectators at the Melbourne Cup in Australia
This paper critically examines competing media discourses about women’s alcohol consumption as spectators at the Melbourne Cup, a historically prestigious annual Australian horse race. Taking a feminist poststructural lens, this paper identifies how print media representations of the female drinking subject can provide a multitude of subject positions that can be contradictory and subversive, offering possibilities for resistance to idealised mid…
Lasting legacies
“Forgotten Australians” are the estimated half a million children who were placed in institutional care in Australia from the 1920s to the 1980s. Increasing numbers are entering older age but many are poorly positioned to age well and with the supports they need. This is often because the lasting effects of childhood institutional care have contributed to poor housing outcomes, including housing insecurity, reliance on social housing, prevalence …
Identity and everyday experiences of homelessness
It is important for the complexities of homelessness to be considered when constructing policy or practice relating to people who are without safe and stable accommodation. These complexities can be loosely categorised around the definitions, causes and experiences of homelessness. While definitions and causes are topics of current debates, study of the lived‐experiences of homelessness remains an area that is largely under‐researched. This paper…
Responses to Homelessness in Australian Cities
Responses to homelessness in Australia are provided by a range of government and nongovernment services. The present study examined the experiences of social workers within these diverse services. The article discusses how social workers make meaning of their professional identity and responses to homelessness in contemporary practice and policy settings. The findings of a qualitative study of 39 social workers employed in Adelaide, Melbourne, an…
Making Gender Visible
Social workers’ bodies and identities are gendered. This article examines gender relations in social workers’ accounts of their practices using data from a qualitative study that focused on social workers’ responses to homelessness in three Australian cities. Themes in the data relate to essentialist notions of gender; gender functioning as an invisible form of oppression; heterosexual assumptions in client—worker relationships; and the preferabi…
Homelessness, Social Policy, and Social Work
Responses to homelessness are an emerging area of practice for social workers. Homelessness is a serious national and worldwide policy issue, which has gained an increased focus in Australia throug
Social Work Education and Children
It is well documented that social work graduates feel unprepared for work with vulnerable children, especially those involved with child protection systems. Initiatives of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) emphasise the importance of including a focus on children within the Australian social work curricula. This article considered whether social work education was preparing graduates to respond more effectively to children by ex…
Not knowing that I donot know and not wanting to know’
In this article I critically reflect on how white power and privilege constitutes my personal power and professional experiences as a social work practitioner and social work educator in Australia. I explore my white privilege in the context of the colonization of Australia and social work practice in child protection
Questioning Representations of Homelessness in the Australian Print Media
Social workers have an important role in questioning how social problems such as homelessness are represented in public discourse. Using Carol Bacchi's policy analysis framework, this paper analyses representations of homelessness and service provision in the Australian print media, by examining assumptions underlying these representations, gaps and silences; the effects of these representations; and how these can be defended and disrupted. The s…
Need or right
Red dust homelessness’
Diverse Meanings of Home in Multicultural Australia
Intimate Partner Violence and Housing
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an extreme example of gender inequality that compromises women’s citizenship. This article discusses the effects of IPV on women’s housing circumstances based on the findings of a large national Australian survey. The analysis found that IPV erodes women’s citizenship, which includes their access to safe and affordable housing, connections to “home,” and participation in community life. Drawing on notions of gen…
Lesbians’ embodied and imagined homes
This article explores how nine lesbian women in Australia embody and imagine ‘home’. Using visual methodology, each woman was invited to bring along an artefact and tell a story about how it represents home for her. The methods for producing the data involved a focus group and individual interviews. Following a school of thought known as the sociology of emotions, the data were analysed for insights connected to participants’ emotions. The study …
Family Experiences of Caring for Relatives Who Have Received Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
The research literature on family members’ experiences of the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is limited. This article explores the perspectives of family members whose relatives had received ECT. Drawing on a social constructionist perspective, this qualitative study collected data using in-depth interviews with nine families in South Australia, to examine how family members constructed the supports and challenges they experienced. The re…
Family homelessness in regional and urban contexts
Rethinking Women’s Mental Health After Intimate Partner Violence
This article reports on mixed methods research into intimate partner violence (IPV) and women's mental health. Using an online national survey and life history interviews, quantitative and qualitative data analysis demonstrates how IPV negatively impacts women's sense of self, with other multiple losses in relation to income, work, housing, and social participation further undermining recovery into the long term. The feminist concept of sexual po…
The Removal of Children in Domestic Violence
A range of service providers support mothers and children who are experiencing domestic violence (DV). However, research tends to focus on the role of service providers in child protection services and DV services. This potentially excludes valuable insights from a wider range of nongovernment service providers on the systemic issues that mothers experiencing DV and child separation may experience. This research explored the perspectives of 16 di…
Questioning policy representations of women’s alcohol consumption
This study draws on Carol Bacchi’s What’s the problem represented to be? (WPR) framework, to deconstruct policy discourses of women’s alcohol consumption. It examines Australian policies such as in the National Alcohol Strategy (2019–2028) and Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol ( NHMRC, 2009, 2020 ). It found that policy discourses particularly focus on the effects of women’s alcohol consumption as ‘harms’ to unbor…
Unruly female spectators at the Melbourne Cup in Australia
This paper critically examines competing media discourses about women’s alcohol consumption as spectators at the Melbourne Cup, a historically prestigious annual Australian horse race. Taking a feminist poststructural lens, this paper identifies how print media representations of the female drinking subject can provide a multitude of subject positions that can be contradictory and subversive, offering possibilities for resistance to idealised mid…
Lasting legacies
“Forgotten Australians” are the estimated half a million children who were placed in institutional care in Australia from the 1920s to the 1980s. Increasing numbers are entering older age but many are poorly positioned to age well and with the supports they need. This is often because the lasting effects of childhood institutional care have contributed to poor housing outcomes, including housing insecurity, reliance on social housing, prevalence …
Homelessness, Social Exclusion and Health
This monograph is written by Dr Fiona Cuthill, Senior Lecturer in Nursing Studies at the University of Edinburgh. The first chapter begins with the image of cardboard ‘mattresses’ in front of marble doorways, arguing that people sleeping rough in urban spaces are a familiar sight and the losers of global capitalism. Rough sleepers are constructed as being marginalised local citizens and undocumented destitute migrants, who are ‘othered’ as ‘stran…
Communal parenting, marriage and children in Papua, Indonesia
This article provides new social work knowledge about the parenting practices of Papuan parents, which includes their perceptions of marriage and having children. This qualitative ethnographic study included participant observation and individual semi-structured interviews with 49 Papuan parents (34 mothers and 15 fathers), who were interviewed across five different Papuan regencies: Supiori, Jayapura, Jayawijaya, Boven Digul and Mimika. A key fi…
The Long Shadow of Intimate Partner Violence
Ongoing health issues influence the postseparation lives of survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). This study identified associations between health following IPV and demographic, housing, employment, and social participation factors. Survivors of IPV in Australia were surveyed. Logistic regression assessed factors of interest with physical and mental health conditions. Six hundred and fifty-eight women participated. Physical health issues…
Social Participation After Intimate Partner Violence
This large mixed methods study adopted a citizenship lens to examine the impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) on women's social participation. The study found that social participation in all categories contracted dramatically during IPV and, in most cases, never regained pre-violence levels. The study also found that following initial social withdrawal, many women went on to reengage in new ways, including through political activism on gend…
Radicalising hope to resist the neoliberalisation of social work
The influence of neoliberalism is taken for granted in social work and has increasingly shaped social work practice, research and education. This article examines hope in social work and the importance of radically theorising hope to challenge the neoliberalisation of social work. Social work has a dual function that both resists and accommodates neoliberal agendas. Hope is a multidimensional concept. Hope is predominantly individualised in socia…
Governing failed neoliberal subjects
This paper uses Carol Bacchi’s ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ (WPR) framework to explore representations of women’s mental health in federal and South Australian mental health policies. It argues that mental health policies govern women through neoliberal discourses that individualise mental health and illness while neglecting the social structural factors which significantly influence mental health outcomes and health equity. In a ‘self…
Sociology (26 obras) · Political science (21 obras) · Psychology (17 obras) · Homelessness and Social Issues (16 obras) · Social Work (14 obras) · Gender Studies (13 obras) · Social Work Education and Practice (12 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Medicine (10 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras)