B Bennett
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 27534 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | B Bennett |
| NOMBRES | B |
| APELLIDO | Bennett |
| FIRMA | BENNETT B |
| AFILIACIONES | Federation University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0111-4670 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Creating Visual Artefacts for First Nations Peoples
The creation of visual artefacts for First Nations Peoples, particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, requires a nuanced approach that accurately reflects the multiple existing diverse identities and cultures across so-called Australia. With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) programs, such as DALL-E, over the past five years, with their ability to generate visual depictions from text prompts, concerns about gaps, inac…
Self-love is not going to fix us or the colony
This article critically examines the limitations of self-love as a tool for healing fatness within the colonial framework, arguing that its mainstream promotion is insufficient to address the structural, historical, and ongoing traumas of living in the colony. These harms include the violent disruption of Indigenous relationships with food, land, and cultural food systems, alongside continued restrictions on access to culturally grounded food res…
Transformational learning and agency for professional identity development
Challenges relating to first-year student retention and learning outcomes are recognized as a multi-faceted issue in the tertiary education sector across many professional programs, including social work. Graduating students can find it difficult to establish themselves in the workplace. The researchers wanted to understand if fostering a sense of professional identity for social work students as part of the research experience might in and of it…
Emancipatory decoloniality as leadership in social service organizations
Around the globe, there is a growing demand for leadership in resolving longstanding social injustices experienced by Indigenous peoples. As part of a larger, international study, this article draws on early findings from yarnings/qualitative interviews to contribute to theorizing Indigenous leadership in social service organizations. Within our research design, the team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers consciously centre Indigenous w…
The How of Doing Decoloniality in Social Work
Drunk in China? The Imperative for Effective Interventions Against Alcohol Abuse
BACKGROUND: Alcohol use and abuse remain prevalent in China, though mounting evidence shows that even drinking in moderation is detrimental to health. While many countries' intake is on the decline, China's alcohol consumption is rising fast and is on the path to overtaking countries like the United States, even on a per capita level. OBJECTIVES: This paper aims to analyze the danger of lax enforcement of laws and regulations against alcohol use …
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/gender diverse, queer, and intersex+ inclusion in Asia-Pacific social work education
The purpose of this scoping literature review was to examine the available evidence on the discussion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/gender diverse, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) populations in published journal articles on social work education in the Asia-Pacific region. Using a modified PRISMA framework, the research team searched 33 English-language Q1 and Q2 journals (with an impact factor ranging from 0.5 to 2.8) in social work. The…
Rankings, Ruling and Reproducing Inequities
There is No Such Thing as a Blank Slate
This chapter is not meant to be comfortable to read or ‘sit-with&s;. Its purpose is to critique, expose, challenge, reframe and assist with decolonising spaces, along with framing and creating new spaces—the development of new, sustainable a-colonial systems, utilising Indigenous Knowledge Paradigms (IKPs) and Indigenous Knowledge Systems. The issue we find with Westernisation is that non-Indigenous people continually expect us to come up with th…
A new table to determine our future
Strengthening critical allyship in social work education
COVID-19 has shifted social work education and widened the gaps in services for historically marginalised communities, including people of diverse cultural, sexual and gender identities and social classes. Existing inequities based on cultural differences have been magnified, perhaps most recently evident in George Floyd's slaying and the subsequent #BlackLivesMatter demonstrations across the globe. Learning to be an ally for diverse communities …
Understanding camp dogs
This article examines how rising concern for animal welfare in Australia is manifested in increased media coverage of these topics, including growing coverage of animal sentience, rights, and welfare. In Australia, canine existence is often determined by their positioning within cultural frames. Dogs have been integral to Aboriginal social, family, and environmental relationships for generations; however, colonisation brought fundamental changes …
Attachment styles, continuing bonds, and grief following companion animal death
The death of a companion animal can cause severe grief, yet previous research investigating factors predicting grief has been hampered by limitations. We explored how attachment styles, continuing bonds, and time since loss interacted to predict grief severity in a large sample of individuals grieving the loss of a variety of companion animals. Participants ( n = 496) aged between18 and 79 years ( M age = 41.60, SD = 13.62) who had lost a compani…
The Continuous Improvement Cultural Responsiveness Tools (CICRT)
Social workers play a pivotal role in addressing equity and diversity within Australia using both culturally responsiveness skills and knowledge. This article describes a research project that resulted in the development of the Continuous Improvement Cultural Responsive Tools that can be used by social workers in their practice. This was a large project conducted over three years, which involved engagement and consultation with Aboriginal and Tor…
Special Issue
by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Authors and About Aboriginal and Torres
Workplace Heterosexism and Well-being
An intercultural critical reflection model
Critical reflection is an important tool used by social workers to develop culturally responsive education, practice, and supervision. Current frameworks provide clearly defined processes for learners and professionals to create culturally safe learning and practice. However, in the models currently used in Australian social work, there is no representation of Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing. In this paper, we introduce a new model wh…
Creating spatial, relational and cultural safety in online social work education during Covid-19
Spatial, relational and cultural safety are critical elements of trauma-informed social work practice, gaining momentum in social work education. Culturally responsive and trauma-informed pedagogical approaches meet the definition of safety. The aim is to create a democratic, collaborative, and reflexive space whereby students and educators can feel simultaneously supported in the diversity of their respective lived experiences and learning. The …
Decolonization and trauma-informed truth-telling about Indigenous Australia in a social work diversity course
Actual accounts of the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples since colonization remain largely misunderstood and misrepresented within Australian education systems and the broader social consciousness. Culturally sensitive practice and ethnic diversity are challenging topics to teach social work students when truth-telling is absent. Social workers need to develop an understanding of intergenerational trauma experienced by …
The Non-Indigenous Educator Teaching Australian Aboriginal Content in Social Work Education
Social work in Australia requires educators to teach skills, knowledge, and Aboriginal ways of knowing, doing, and being to ensure graduates are culturally responsive and potential allies when working with Aboriginal peoples and communities. This education should include an accurate teaching of Australian Aboriginal history and sharing of Aboriginal knowledge. Currently, non-Aboriginal educators are more likely to teach Aboriginal content, which …
Indigenous Ideas Benefit Collaborative Research Partnerships
Aboriginal Social Work Academics
The Behrendt report (2012) highlighted the significant lack of representation of Aboriginal people in higher education. It called for a collaborative approach by governments, universities, and professional bodies to drive systemic changes. In the last decade, this has resulted in an increase of Aboriginal students, staff, and researchers. This article presents a qualitative research study in which Aboriginal social work academic participants desc…
Australian Social Work
Australian Social Work (ASW) is an international peer-reviewed journal reflecting current thinking and trends in social work. Authors intending to submit to the Journal should prepare their manuscripts with both a social work audience and an international audience in mind. It is strongly recommended that authors familiarise themselves with articles previously published in the Journal. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander refers to the unceded so…
Making #blacklivesmatter in universities
Purpose The purpose of this viewpoint article is to consider the #BlackLivesMatter movement within the Aboriginal Australian struggle for equality, sovereignty and human rights. Indigenous sovereignty has been threatened throughout Australia's history of colonization. We provide a viewpoint and recommendations for social policy education and practice. Design/methodology/approach We provide commentary and interpretation based upon the lived experi…
The impact of teaching culture online during Covid-19
This article speaks to an Aboriginal academic’s experience during COVID-19 teaching cultural content via the Internet and an online platform. It highlights the challenges of teaching deeply spiritual content online in a unit where being able to develop relationships and trust before these units are offered would be beneficial
What Do We Know? The Experiences of Social Workers Working Alongside Aboriginal People
Social work practice with Aboriginal people and communities is generally regarded as complex, with workers often engaging with communities that are experiencing significant disadvantage. This paper reports on a research project that interviewed Aboriginal and non Aboriginal social workers who are experienced and well-regarded by Aboriginal communities. It provides insights into what sustains these workers and how they integrate a range of knowled…
Stop Deploying Your White Privilege on Me!” Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement with the Australian Association of Social Workers
Historically, few Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social workers have joined and remained active members of the professional organisation that represents the interests of the social work profession, the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW). This research project uses qualitative methodology to investigate barriers to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in the AASW and propose how these barriers might be overcome. …
Australian Social Work
Australian Social Work (ASW) is an international peer-reviewed journal reflecting current thinking and trends in social work. Authors intending to submit to the Journal should prepare their manuscripts with both a social work audience and an international audience in mind. It is strongly recommended that authors familiarise themselves with articles previously published in the Journal. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander refers to the unceded so…
Wayanha
However, there is still something missing. As a profession, whether that is in the field, within education and training, or as the professional body, we do not seem to be able to quite get there. So, what is it that we are missing
Cultural Responsiveness in Action
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing have recently become core social work curriculum in Australian social work degrees and are regarded as central to decolonising Australian social work education and producing culturally responsive social work practitioners. Effectively teaching these knowledges, values and skills requires multiple strategies including the development of new curriculum resources which demonstrat…
Hearing the stories of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social workers
Hearing the stories of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social workers highlights the powerful influence that cultural identity has on their practice. Their identity is continuously negotiated alongside a professional social work identity that is dominated by Western discourse. The tensions that these social workers experience in their practice is revealed in the findings of a qualitative research project conducted by an Indigenou…
The Continuous Improvement Cultural Responsiveness Tools (CICRT)
Social workers play a pivotal role in addressing equity and diversity within Australia using both culturally responsiveness skills and knowledge. This article describes a research project that resulted in the development of the Continuous Improvement Cultural Responsive Tools that can be used by social workers in their practice. This was a large project conducted over three years, which involved engagement and consultation with Aboriginal and Tor…
The How of Doing Decoloniality in Social Work
Decolonization and trauma-informed truth-telling about Indigenous Australia in a social work diversity course
Actual accounts of the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples since colonization remain largely misunderstood and misrepresented within Australian education systems and the broader social consciousness. Culturally sensitive practice and ethnic diversity are challenging topics to teach social work students when truth-telling is absent. Social workers need to develop an understanding of intergenerational trauma experienced by …
Indigenous Ideas Benefit Collaborative Research Partnerships
Making #blacklivesmatter in universities
Purpose The purpose of this viewpoint article is to consider the #BlackLivesMatter movement within the Aboriginal Australian struggle for equality, sovereignty and human rights. Indigenous sovereignty has been threatened throughout Australia's history of colonization. We provide a viewpoint and recommendations for social policy education and practice. Design/methodology/approach We provide commentary and interpretation based upon the lived experi…
The Potential of Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy for Treating Trauma in Australian Aboriginal Peoples
Colonisation and subsequent policies targeting Aboriginal peoples in Australia have had devastating consequences, including trauma, disadvantage and marginalisation. These effects have passed from generation to generation and continue to manifest in poor health and well-being outcomes, particularly mental health disorders. Innovative and culturally relevant techniques are needed to remedy inequality and address intergenerational trauma. Equine-as…
Emancipatory decoloniality as leadership in social service organizations
Around the globe, there is a growing demand for leadership in resolving longstanding social injustices experienced by Indigenous peoples. As part of a larger, international study, this article draws on early findings from yarnings/qualitative interviews to contribute to theorizing Indigenous leadership in social service organizations. Within our research design, the team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers consciously centre Indigenous w…
Attachment styles, continuing bonds, and grief following companion animal death
The death of a companion animal can cause severe grief, yet previous research investigating factors predicting grief has been hampered by limitations. We explored how attachment styles, continuing bonds, and time since loss interacted to predict grief severity in a large sample of individuals grieving the loss of a variety of companion animals. Participants ( n = 496) aged between18 and 79 years ( M age = 41.60, SD = 13.62) who had lost a compani…
Workplace Heterosexism and Well-being
The Non-Indigenous Educator Teaching Australian Aboriginal Content in Social Work Education
Social work in Australia requires educators to teach skills, knowledge, and Aboriginal ways of knowing, doing, and being to ensure graduates are culturally responsive and potential allies when working with Aboriginal peoples and communities. This education should include an accurate teaching of Australian Aboriginal history and sharing of Aboriginal knowledge. Currently, non-Aboriginal educators are more likely to teach Aboriginal content, which …
Aboriginal Social Work Academics
The Behrendt report (2012) highlighted the significant lack of representation of Aboriginal people in higher education. It called for a collaborative approach by governments, universities, and professional bodies to drive systemic changes. In the last decade, this has resulted in an increase of Aboriginal students, staff, and researchers. This article presents a qualitative research study in which Aboriginal social work academic participants desc…
What to bring when you are told not to bring a thing
This article provides a content analysis of articles published in Australian Social Work, the British Journal of Social Work, the International Journal of Social Welfare and International Social Work from 2007 to 2017 regarding the practice of acknowledging Indigenous participants and knowledges in articles that contain Indigenous content. Indigenous cultural ideas, values and principles are now contributing to and informing a significant amount …
Hearing the stories of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social workers
Hearing the stories of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social workers highlights the powerful influence that cultural identity has on their practice. Their identity is continuously negotiated alongside a professional social work identity that is dominated by Western discourse. The tensions that these social workers experience in their practice is revealed in the findings of a qualitative research project conducted by an Indigenou…
Science and Empire
What Do We Know? The Experiences of Social Workers Working Alongside Aboriginal People
Social work practice with Aboriginal people and communities is generally regarded as complex, with workers often engaging with communities that are experiencing significant disadvantage. This paper reports on a research project that interviewed Aboriginal and non Aboriginal social workers who are experienced and well-regarded by Aboriginal communities. It provides insights into what sustains these workers and how they integrate a range of knowled…
Stop Deploying Your White Privilege on Me!” Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement with the Australian Association of Social Workers
Historically, few Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social workers have joined and remained active members of the professional organisation that represents the interests of the social work profession, the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW). This research project uses qualitative methodology to investigate barriers to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in the AASW and propose how these barriers might be overcome. …
How do Light-Skinned Aboriginal Australians Experience Racism
There has been little discussion in Australia about the different experiences of racism directed towards light-skinned Aboriginal people. Research on racism in Australia has tended to incorporate all Aboriginal people and has not examined in detail the experiences of lighter-skinned Aboriginal people. This paper is based on research that was undertaken as part of a study on light-skinned Aboriginal people with little or no community or kinship ti…
Wayanha
However, there is still something missing. As a profession, whether that is in the field, within education and training, or as the professional body, we do not seem to be able to quite get there. So, what is it that we are missing
Cultural Responsiveness in Action
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing have recently become core social work curriculum in Australian social work degrees and are regarded as central to decolonising Australian social work education and producing culturally responsive social work practitioners. Effectively teaching these knowledges, values and skills requires multiple strategies including the development of new curriculum resources which demonstrat…
Creating a Culturally Safe Space When Teaching Aboriginal Content in Social Work
Teaching Aboriginal content in social work education presents risks of retraumatisation for students. There are international calls for a trauma-informed teaching model that creates cultural safety in the classroom. This study aimed to develop a trauma-informed model for social work education by reviewing the literature on cultural safety for Aboriginal peoples. This model incorporates key aspects of ensuring Aboriginal cultural safety: de-coloni…
The Potential of Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy for Treating Trauma in Australian Aboriginal Peoples
Colonisation and subsequent policies targeting Aboriginal peoples in Australia have had devastating consequences, including trauma, disadvantage and marginalisation. These effects have passed from generation to generation and continue to manifest in poor health and well-being outcomes, particularly mental health disorders. Innovative and culturally relevant techniques are needed to remedy inequality and address intergenerational trauma. Equine-as…
What to bring when you are told not to bring a thing
This article provides a content analysis of articles published in Australian Social Work, the British Journal of Social Work, the International Journal of Social Welfare and International Social Work from 2007 to 2017 regarding the practice of acknowledging Indigenous participants and knowledges in articles that contain Indigenous content. Indigenous cultural ideas, values and principles are now contributing to and informing a significant amount …
Aboriginal Social Work Academics
The Behrendt report (2012) highlighted the significant lack of representation of Aboriginal people in higher education. It called for a collaborative approach by governments, universities, and professional bodies to drive systemic changes. In the last decade, this has resulted in an increase of Aboriginal students, staff, and researchers. This article presents a qualitative research study in which Aboriginal social work academic participants desc…
Australian Social Work
Australian Social Work (ASW) is an international peer-reviewed journal reflecting current thinking and trends in social work. Authors intending to submit to the Journal should prepare their manuscripts with both a social work audience and an international audience in mind. It is strongly recommended that authors familiarise themselves with articles previously published in the Journal. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander refers to the unceded so…
Making #blacklivesmatter in universities
Purpose The purpose of this viewpoint article is to consider the #BlackLivesMatter movement within the Aboriginal Australian struggle for equality, sovereignty and human rights. Indigenous sovereignty has been threatened throughout Australia's history of colonization. We provide a viewpoint and recommendations for social policy education and practice. Design/methodology/approach We provide commentary and interpretation based upon the lived experi…
The impact of teaching culture online during Covid-19
This article speaks to an Aboriginal academic’s experience during COVID-19 teaching cultural content via the Internet and an online platform. It highlights the challenges of teaching deeply spiritual content online in a unit where being able to develop relationships and trust before these units are offered would be beneficial
Workplace friendships while teleworking during Covid-19
COVID-19 has shifted Australia's social service delivery. Understanding the impact on workplace relationships is key. This article used a small-scale sample of social workers ( N = 37) to explore workplace friendship experiences while teleworking. Participants reported opportunities for friendships during COVID-19 but reported ongoing personal and professional concerns
An intercultural critical reflection model
Critical reflection is an important tool used by social workers to develop culturally responsive education, practice, and supervision. Current frameworks provide clearly defined processes for learners and professionals to create culturally safe learning and practice. However, in the models currently used in Australian social work, there is no representation of Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing. In this paper, we introduce a new model wh…
Creating spatial, relational and cultural safety in online social work education during Covid-19
Spatial, relational and cultural safety are critical elements of trauma-informed social work practice, gaining momentum in social work education. Culturally responsive and trauma-informed pedagogical approaches meet the definition of safety. The aim is to create a democratic, collaborative, and reflexive space whereby students and educators can feel simultaneously supported in the diversity of their respective lived experiences and learning. The …
Decolonization and trauma-informed truth-telling about Indigenous Australia in a social work diversity course
Actual accounts of the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples since colonization remain largely misunderstood and misrepresented within Australian education systems and the broader social consciousness. Culturally sensitive practice and ethnic diversity are challenging topics to teach social work students when truth-telling is absent. Social workers need to develop an understanding of intergenerational trauma experienced by …
The Non-Indigenous Educator Teaching Australian Aboriginal Content in Social Work Education
Social work in Australia requires educators to teach skills, knowledge, and Aboriginal ways of knowing, doing, and being to ensure graduates are culturally responsive and potential allies when working with Aboriginal peoples and communities. This education should include an accurate teaching of Australian Aboriginal history and sharing of Aboriginal knowledge. Currently, non-Aboriginal educators are more likely to teach Aboriginal content, which …
Indigenous Ideas Benefit Collaborative Research Partnerships
There is No Such Thing as a Blank Slate
This chapter is not meant to be comfortable to read or ‘sit-with&s;. Its purpose is to critique, expose, challenge, reframe and assist with decolonising spaces, along with framing and creating new spaces—the development of new, sustainable a-colonial systems, utilising Indigenous Knowledge Paradigms (IKPs) and Indigenous Knowledge Systems. The issue we find with Westernisation is that non-Indigenous people continually expect us to come up with th…
A new table to determine our future
Strengthening critical allyship in social work education
COVID-19 has shifted social work education and widened the gaps in services for historically marginalised communities, including people of diverse cultural, sexual and gender identities and social classes. Existing inequities based on cultural differences have been magnified, perhaps most recently evident in George Floyd's slaying and the subsequent #BlackLivesMatter demonstrations across the globe. Learning to be an ally for diverse communities …
Understanding camp dogs
This article examines how rising concern for animal welfare in Australia is manifested in increased media coverage of these topics, including growing coverage of animal sentience, rights, and welfare. In Australia, canine existence is often determined by their positioning within cultural frames. Dogs have been integral to Aboriginal social, family, and environmental relationships for generations; however, colonisation brought fundamental changes …
Attachment styles, continuing bonds, and grief following companion animal death
The death of a companion animal can cause severe grief, yet previous research investigating factors predicting grief has been hampered by limitations. We explored how attachment styles, continuing bonds, and time since loss interacted to predict grief severity in a large sample of individuals grieving the loss of a variety of companion animals. Participants ( n = 496) aged between18 and 79 years ( M age = 41.60, SD = 13.62) who had lost a compani…
Sociology (27 obras) · Political science (26 obras) · Social Work Education and Practice (21 obras) · Social Work (19 obras) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (18 obras) · Public relations (16 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Psychology (12 obras) · Pedagogy (11 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras)