Frances Crawford
Biographic Data
| ID | 231456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frances Crawford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frances |
| FAMILY NAME | Crawford |
| SIGNATURE | CRAWFORD F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0500-169X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What does it mean to ‘start where the person is at’: Reflections on personhood in social work
The quality of the helping relationship is experienced when theories and principles are enacted in practice. Here, the people social workers seek to serve are able to decide whether the practice they experience is useful. One way that social workers can enhance the quality of the relationships they develop is to ‘start where the person is at’. In order to explore what this phrase means in and for effective social work practice, this paper revisit…
Perceived accessibility of employment sites by jobseekers and the potential relevance of employer-subsidised demand responsive transport to enhance the commute
The constraints placed by the transport options available to job-seekers are key factors for the accessibility of employment locations and therefore social inclusion. The present paper investigates the importance of these constraints and the potential appeal of an employer-subsidised Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) service to job-seekers at risk of social exclusion. Mainly quantitative questionnaire data were obtained from a survey (n = 254) of…
Segmenting travellers based on day-to-day variability in work-related travel behaviour
Experiences of connectivity and severance in the wake of a new motorway: Implications for health and well-being
Mothering Rodney in 1971: An Autoethnography of the Life and Death of My Baby Born With Severe Congenital Heart Defects
Rodney lived for 14 weeks in 1971. He was my second child. My other two children died of unrelated causes in 1983 and 2005. This autoethnographical account explores my experience of mothering a baby with severe congenital heart defects in the Australian culture of the 1970s. Looking back, I gain an understanding of how my still painful experience was shaped by the times. Silenced by the social and cultural practices of the day, mothering and losi…
Observation and assessment of the nutritional quality of ‘out of school’ foods popular with secondary school pupils at lunchtime
The majority of pupils purchased unhealthy convenience food of poor nutritional value at lunchtime in local shops around their school. Further effort is required to implement regulatory levers such as taxation on unhealthy foods, restriction on the concentration of outlets selling unhealthy foods as well as the development of partnerships and additional measures within and beyond schools to promote healthy foods
Effects of living near a new urban motorway on the travel behaviour of local residents in deprived areas: Evidence from a natural experimental study
We evaluated the effects of a new motorway built through deprived neighbourhoods on travel behaviour in residents. This natural experiment comprised a longitudinal cohort (n=365) and two cross-sectional samples (baseline n=980; follow-up n=978) recruited in 2005 and 2013. Adults from one of three study areas - surrounding the new motorway (South), an existing motorway (East), or no motorway (North) - completed a previous day travel record. Adjust…
Willie you will live longer than me’: An autoethnography of reclaiming mothering my first-born
Writing the stories of the lives of my three children who died of unrelated causes had unexpected consequences. I found myself released from exile. I had long felt banished from the world of mothering. This is an autoethnography on mothering Toni, my first-born child. She died in 1983 aged 13 years, 4 years after a diagnosis of leukaemia. The key to reclaiming my mother-love for Toni was to peel away the armour and expose my ambivalence about mot…
A qualitative study of independent fast food vendors near secondary schools in disadvantaged Scottish neighbourhoods
Independent food shops in low-income areas face barriers to offering healthy food choices, and interventions and policies that target the food environment around schools should take the neighbourhood context into consideration
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: Dreaming of Child Safe Organisations
On 12 November 2012 the then Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced she was recommending to the Governor General the establishment of a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Following inquiries in Australia and elsewhere much is already known about institutional and inter-institutional child protection failures and what is required to address them. That Australia’s national government has pursued another …
Learning Cautious Pragmatism from American Social Work Education. Commentary on Lessons from American Social Work Education: Caution Ahead (Karger, 2012)
There is much in Karger's (2012) article with which to agree. Australian admission standards to qualifying social work programs have lowered over the past two decades and clearly "marketisation shapes social work education in manifold ways" (Karger, 2012, p. 311). Karger's (2012) paper is important in that it lays out some of the structural factors shaping our discipline. He does this in a manner urging engaged thought and dialogue by all involve…
Local Regeneration in Social Work with Indigenous Peoples: The Kimberley Across 40 Years
In an era of metrification and managerialism there is widespread acceptance that a lack of Aboriginal wellbeing reflects a culture of welfare dependency. But Indigenous wellbeing is more complex than simple equations suggesting “getting off welfare” will achieve betterment. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to issues of Indigenous disadvantage. Social work literature establishes that moral, social, and political aspects of working the social…
Acting in the best interests of the child: A case study on the consequences of competing child protection legislation in Western Australia
With a focus on the case of CEO, Department for Child Protection v. John Citizen (2007) WASC 312, this article examines the legal issues that the case presents for child-care workers and child welfare organisations when acting in the best interests of a child. This complex case raises a number of issues regarding the issuing of assessment notices (working with children cards), what constitutes the ‘best interests of the child’ and the interplay b…
Aboriginal Practitioners Speak Out: Contextualising Child Protection Interventions
One month before the June 2007 Federal Government Emergency Intervention in the Northern Territory some 55 West Australian Aboriginal child protection workers attended a 3-day summit in Fremantle. Their purpose as front-line practitioners from across the State was to identify how more nurturing and healing communities could be developed and supported in a climate of despair. This paper reports on how the summit was designed and on some of the ide…
The Limits of Working with Children Cards in Protecting Children
In 2006 Western Australia passed legislation that introduced a system to check criminalrecords and issue permits to those who wish to work with children. In 2007, thelegislation was described by the minister responsible as a ‘‘powerful system that wouldprevent harm to children’’. This paper explores that system and identifies limits to itseffectiveness. The paper concluded that unless the system’s limits are fully appreciatedthere is a possibilit…
Promoting walking to school: Results of a quasi-experimental trial
Study objective: To assess the impact of a combined intervention on children’s travel behaviour, stage of behavioural change and motivations for and barriers to actively commuting to school. Design: A quasi-experimental trial involving pre- and post-intervention mapping of routes to school by active and inactive mode of travel and surveys of “stage of behaviour change” and motivations for and barriers to actively commuting to school. Intervention…
The Human Service ‘Disciplines’ and Social Work: The Foucault Effect
The midwifery of power? Reflections on the development of professional social work in Western Australia
This paper explores the emergence of the social work profession in Western Australia from beginnings in the 1920s through to 1970 when the first local graduates gained employment. The authors illustrate how WA's history both connects with and diverges from patterns of the profession's development in more populous states, througt, the use of interviews conducted with pioneering social workers These oral histories illuminate how gender, class and o…
No continuing city: A postmodern story of social work
Rural social work is examined through the lens of postmodernism. Questioning modernist framings of rural social work as peripheral and deficit practice, the article offers an alternative reading that rural social work highlights the importance of reflective practitioner selves in achieving best practice in context. Working out from the actual and bodily lived experience of practitioners is suggested as a methodology of critical ethnography that m…
Aboriginal Practitioners Speak Out: Contextualising Child Protection Interventions
One month before the June 2007 Federal Government Emergency Intervention in the Northern Territory some 55 West Australian Aboriginal child protection workers attended a 3-day summit in Fremantle. Their purpose as front-line practitioners from across the State was to identify how more nurturing and healing communities could be developed and supported in a climate of despair. This paper reports on how the summit was designed and on some of the ide…
Segmenting travellers based on day-to-day variability in work-related travel behaviour
The midwifery of power? Reflections on the development of professional social work in Western Australia
This paper explores the emergence of the social work profession in Western Australia from beginnings in the 1920s through to 1970 when the first local graduates gained employment. The authors illustrate how WA's history both connects with and diverges from patterns of the profession's development in more populous states, througt, the use of interviews conducted with pioneering social workers These oral histories illuminate how gender, class and o…
No continuing city: A postmodern story of social work
Rural social work is examined through the lens of postmodernism. Questioning modernist framings of rural social work as peripheral and deficit practice, the article offers an alternative reading that rural social work highlights the importance of reflective practitioner selves in achieving best practice in context. Working out from the actual and bodily lived experience of practitioners is suggested as a methodology of critical ethnography that m…
Experiences of connectivity and severance in the wake of a new motorway: Implications for health and well-being
The Limits of Working with Children Cards in Protecting Children
In 2006 Western Australia passed legislation that introduced a system to check criminalrecords and issue permits to those who wish to work with children. In 2007, thelegislation was described by the minister responsible as a ‘‘powerful system that wouldprevent harm to children’’. This paper explores that system and identifies limits to itseffectiveness. The paper concluded that unless the system’s limits are fully appreciatedthere is a possibilit…
Promoting walking to school: Results of a quasi-experimental trial
Study objective: To assess the impact of a combined intervention on children’s travel behaviour, stage of behavioural change and motivations for and barriers to actively commuting to school. Design: A quasi-experimental trial involving pre- and post-intervention mapping of routes to school by active and inactive mode of travel and surveys of “stage of behaviour change” and motivations for and barriers to actively commuting to school. Intervention…
Willie you will live longer than me’: An autoethnography of reclaiming mothering my first-born
Writing the stories of the lives of my three children who died of unrelated causes had unexpected consequences. I found myself released from exile. I had long felt banished from the world of mothering. This is an autoethnography on mothering Toni, my first-born child. She died in 1983 aged 13 years, 4 years after a diagnosis of leukaemia. The key to reclaiming my mother-love for Toni was to peel away the armour and expose my ambivalence about mot…
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: Dreaming of Child Safe Organisations
On 12 November 2012 the then Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced she was recommending to the Governor General the establishment of a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Following inquiries in Australia and elsewhere much is already known about institutional and inter-institutional child protection failures and what is required to address them. That Australia’s national government has pursued another …
Learning Cautious Pragmatism from American Social Work Education. Commentary on Lessons from American Social Work Education: Caution Ahead (Karger, 2012)
There is much in Karger's (2012) article with which to agree. Australian admission standards to qualifying social work programs have lowered over the past two decades and clearly "marketisation shapes social work education in manifold ways" (Karger, 2012, p. 311). Karger's (2012) paper is important in that it lays out some of the structural factors shaping our discipline. He does this in a manner urging engaged thought and dialogue by all involve…
The Human Service ‘Disciplines’ and Social Work: The Foucault Effect
No continuing city: A postmodern story of social work
Rural social work is examined through the lens of postmodernism. Questioning modernist framings of rural social work as peripheral and deficit practice, the article offers an alternative reading that rural social work highlights the importance of reflective practitioner selves in achieving best practice in context. Working out from the actual and bodily lived experience of practitioners is suggested as a methodology of critical ethnography that m…
The midwifery of power? Reflections on the development of professional social work in Western Australia
This paper explores the emergence of the social work profession in Western Australia from beginnings in the 1920s through to 1970 when the first local graduates gained employment. The authors illustrate how WA's history both connects with and diverges from patterns of the profession's development in more populous states, througt, the use of interviews conducted with pioneering social workers These oral histories illuminate how gender, class and o…
The Human Service ‘Disciplines’ and Social Work: The Foucault Effect
Promoting walking to school: Results of a quasi-experimental trial
Study objective: To assess the impact of a combined intervention on children’s travel behaviour, stage of behavioural change and motivations for and barriers to actively commuting to school. Design: A quasi-experimental trial involving pre- and post-intervention mapping of routes to school by active and inactive mode of travel and surveys of “stage of behaviour change” and motivations for and barriers to actively commuting to school. Intervention…
The Limits of Working with Children Cards in Protecting Children
In 2006 Western Australia passed legislation that introduced a system to check criminalrecords and issue permits to those who wish to work with children. In 2007, thelegislation was described by the minister responsible as a ‘‘powerful system that wouldprevent harm to children’’. This paper explores that system and identifies limits to itseffectiveness. The paper concluded that unless the system’s limits are fully appreciatedthere is a possibilit…
Acting in the best interests of the child: A case study on the consequences of competing child protection legislation in Western Australia
With a focus on the case of CEO, Department for Child Protection v. John Citizen (2007) WASC 312, this article examines the legal issues that the case presents for child-care workers and child welfare organisations when acting in the best interests of a child. This complex case raises a number of issues regarding the issuing of assessment notices (working with children cards), what constitutes the ‘best interests of the child’ and the interplay b…
Aboriginal Practitioners Speak Out: Contextualising Child Protection Interventions
One month before the June 2007 Federal Government Emergency Intervention in the Northern Territory some 55 West Australian Aboriginal child protection workers attended a 3-day summit in Fremantle. Their purpose as front-line practitioners from across the State was to identify how more nurturing and healing communities could be developed and supported in a climate of despair. This paper reports on how the summit was designed and on some of the ide…
Local Regeneration in Social Work with Indigenous Peoples: The Kimberley Across 40 Years
In an era of metrification and managerialism there is widespread acceptance that a lack of Aboriginal wellbeing reflects a culture of welfare dependency. But Indigenous wellbeing is more complex than simple equations suggesting “getting off welfare” will achieve betterment. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to issues of Indigenous disadvantage. Social work literature establishes that moral, social, and political aspects of working the social…
Learning Cautious Pragmatism from American Social Work Education. Commentary on Lessons from American Social Work Education: Caution Ahead (Karger, 2012)
There is much in Karger's (2012) article with which to agree. Australian admission standards to qualifying social work programs have lowered over the past two decades and clearly "marketisation shapes social work education in manifold ways" (Karger, 2012, p. 311). Karger's (2012) paper is important in that it lays out some of the structural factors shaping our discipline. He does this in a manner urging engaged thought and dialogue by all involve…
A qualitative study of independent fast food vendors near secondary schools in disadvantaged Scottish neighbourhoods
Independent food shops in low-income areas face barriers to offering healthy food choices, and interventions and policies that target the food environment around schools should take the neighbourhood context into consideration
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: Dreaming of Child Safe Organisations
On 12 November 2012 the then Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced she was recommending to the Governor General the establishment of a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Following inquiries in Australia and elsewhere much is already known about institutional and inter-institutional child protection failures and what is required to address them. That Australia’s national government has pursued another …
Effects of living near a new urban motorway on the travel behaviour of local residents in deprived areas: Evidence from a natural experimental study
We evaluated the effects of a new motorway built through deprived neighbourhoods on travel behaviour in residents. This natural experiment comprised a longitudinal cohort (n=365) and two cross-sectional samples (baseline n=980; follow-up n=978) recruited in 2005 and 2013. Adults from one of three study areas - surrounding the new motorway (South), an existing motorway (East), or no motorway (North) - completed a previous day travel record. Adjust…
Willie you will live longer than me’: An autoethnography of reclaiming mothering my first-born
Writing the stories of the lives of my three children who died of unrelated causes had unexpected consequences. I found myself released from exile. I had long felt banished from the world of mothering. This is an autoethnography on mothering Toni, my first-born child. She died in 1983 aged 13 years, 4 years after a diagnosis of leukaemia. The key to reclaiming my mother-love for Toni was to peel away the armour and expose my ambivalence about mot…
Observation and assessment of the nutritional quality of ‘out of school’ foods popular with secondary school pupils at lunchtime
The majority of pupils purchased unhealthy convenience food of poor nutritional value at lunchtime in local shops around their school. Further effort is required to implement regulatory levers such as taxation on unhealthy foods, restriction on the concentration of outlets selling unhealthy foods as well as the development of partnerships and additional measures within and beyond schools to promote healthy foods
Experiences of connectivity and severance in the wake of a new motorway: Implications for health and well-being
Mothering Rodney in 1971: An Autoethnography of the Life and Death of My Baby Born With Severe Congenital Heart Defects
Rodney lived for 14 weeks in 1971. He was my second child. My other two children died of unrelated causes in 1983 and 2005. This autoethnographical account explores my experience of mothering a baby with severe congenital heart defects in the Australian culture of the 1970s. Looking back, I gain an understanding of how my still painful experience was shaped by the times. Silenced by the social and cultural practices of the day, mothering and losi…
Segmenting travellers based on day-to-day variability in work-related travel behaviour
Perceived accessibility of employment sites by jobseekers and the potential relevance of employer-subsidised demand responsive transport to enhance the commute
The constraints placed by the transport options available to job-seekers are key factors for the accessibility of employment locations and therefore social inclusion. The present paper investigates the importance of these constraints and the potential appeal of an employer-subsidised Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) service to job-seekers at risk of social exclusion. Mainly quantitative questionnaire data were obtained from a survey (n = 254) of…
What does it mean to ‘start where the person is at’: Reflections on personhood in social work
The quality of the helping relationship is experienced when theories and principles are enacted in practice. Here, the people social workers seek to serve are able to decide whether the practice they experience is useful. One way that social workers can enhance the quality of the relationships they develop is to ‘start where the person is at’. In order to explore what this phrase means in and for effective social work practice, this paper revisit…
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