Patrick O’keeffe
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 132775 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Patrick O’keeffe |
| PRENOMES | Patrick |
| SOBRENOME | O’keeffe |
| ASSINATURA | O’KEEFFE P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8961-1726 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Critical social work and co-design
Co-designing with service users is an increasingly common practice in social and community service organizations and one that graduate social workers are likely to encounter. The potential benefits of using co-design for social work are that service users become active participants in problem solving and develop creative solutions to social issues that may not be achieved by more traditional methods of intervention. However, co-design in social w…
Civics Education and Citizenship in the Anthropocene
The Australian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Electoral Matters recently initiated an ‘Inquiry into Civics Education, Engagement, and Participation in Australia’ to understand ‘the effectiveness of formalised civics education throughout Australia’. While concern about a ‘crisis of democracy’ has informed much recent public discussion around the inquiry, we note how scant attention was given to one of the most significant issues currently fac…
From ‘Hanging Out’ to ‘Designed Out’
This analysis of the redesigned Lilydale and Mooroolbark railway stations shows how the regulation and control of young peoples’ participation in public space is deeply ingrained within spatial design of new public transport spaces in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. This study draws on Rosenberger’s (Philos City 1(1):49–70, 2023) framework for analysing hostile design, coupled with the approaches to youth exclusion developed by Wood (2015), to show …
Chipping’ away at barriers
The Politics of Framing the Student Problem
Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system. Since the turn of the last century, the Australian Government initiated two major inquiries into civic education and political engagement: the 2006 inquiry into civic and electoral education, a…
Tell me a story
Research Handbook on the Sociology of Youth
Integrating design thinking into social work education
The contemporary context of Australian social work education creates opportunities for social work educators to reimagine curriculum design and delivery. We propose that design thinking offers one means of broadening approaches to social work teaching in creative and innovative ways. With a focus on the application of knowledge to industry ‘problems’ and ‘person-centered’ solutions, design thinking may complement the social justice values of soci…
Youth Work in a Warm Climate
We write as Australian youth work educators. We consider some of the ethical challenges involved in teaching youth work 'in a warm climate', situated in the diaspora of English youth work but where youth work also has a uniquely Australian character, placing us in an ethically liminal space in our teaching between an understanding of youth work that is robustly defended as being both 'good' and 'true', and what we do, which is different from this…
High stress, high demand and high pressure
The COVID‐19 pandemic has created major challenges globally. The social work and human services profession has been required to rapidly respond to policy and social changes. This research aimed to understand how the pandemic has affected social work and human services staff within Melbourne, Victoria. In this paper, we analyse the practice and policy implications of these responses, and outline learning for the human services sector. We draw on i…
Children’s Guerrilla Play and Dirt Jumps
In 2020-21 the Victorian state government in Australia imposed 262 days of sustained lockdown on Melbourne’s population in a bid to contain the COVID pandemic. These lockdowns, among the longest in the world, affected young people especially. Children were subjected to months of curfews, home schooling using digital platforms and severe travel. Nonetheless some children engaged repeatedly in autonomous and well co-ordinated efforts to construct d…
A Culturally Humble Approach to Designing a Sports-Based Youth Development Program With African-Australian Community
This article draws on the concept of cultural humility, to describe and analyze a decolonizing approach to co-designing a primary prevention basketball program for young African-Australian people in Melbourne, Australia. We explore the potential for genuine collaboration and power-sharing with a culturally diverse community through collaboratively developing the co-design process and resultant program design. This article highlights the central r…
Automating activation in Australia
This article critically analyses the policy discourse that accompanied the introduction of the ‘New Employment Services Model’ (NESM) into the Australian social security system. Critical policy discourse analysis of documents presenting reforms to employment services provision shows that the NESM embeds a logic of activation that construes job seekers both as passive units requiring external motivation (through ‘employment support’ and ‘mutual ob…
Reimagining Social Work Placements in the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed how social work education is provided, and these changes are particularly pronounced in field education. Globally, the introduction of restrictions on mobility and social interaction have contributed to the cancellation, postponement and early termination of social work field placements. Accrediting bodies, social work field education departments and industry partner agencies have needed to rapidly …
Service design for social change
Human Centred Design (HCD) is emerging in Australia as a participatory approach to service design in social work and human services organisations. In this article, we reflect upon our incorporation of HCD into a core unit offered to final-year students in a Bachelor of Social Work (Honours) degree, as part of a collaboration between design and social work academics. We highlight successes and challenges, and identify adaptations that can provide …
Young Peoples’ Construction of DIY Dirt Jumps in Melbourne, Australia, Throughout the Covid-19 Lockdowns
Access to public space is critically important for young people, providing key opportunities for self-expression, independence, identity development and relationship building. The Covid-19 pandemic has profoundly affected how young people can engage with public spaces. In Melbourne, Australia, young people have experienced 262 days in lockdown, contributing to escalating anxiety and depression, social isolation, physical health impacts and increa…
Social security conditionality as a corrective to ‘flawed consumption’
This article explores discursive legitimation of intensified conditionality in Australian social security policy, by the association of responsible consumption with a revised construction of Australian identity. Discursive rationalization of the use of cashless debit cards to constrain consumption choices by citizens is situated in representations of Australian identity and social citizenship. Against growing empirical evidence of a lack of concl…
This is our home’
On 4 July 2020, in response to a developing ‘second wave’ of COVID-19 cases, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced that a hard lockdown would be immediately implemented in nine public housing towers in Melbourne, Australia. Approximately 500 police were dispatched to implement this lockdown, with residents prevented from leaving their buildings. Over the next fortnight, young residents in these towers, often from socially- and economically-m…
Keep Your Wheels Off the Furniture”
The City of Melbourne’s Skate Melbourne Plan purports to be skateboarder-centered, focusing on developing skate spaces for skateboarders. Drawing on research analyzing street skateboarders’ production of space and the importance of public spaces to street skateboarding, we examine how the Skate Melbourne Plan recognizes and supports street skateboarders’ capacity to skate in city environments. We suggest that rather than developing street skatebo…
Continuing the precedent
The COVID‐19 pandemic is both a health and an economic crisis. Economically, lockdowns across Australia have devastated business and industry, creating immediate spikes in under‐ and unemployment. These impacts intersect with the precarious labour market of casualised and "gig" economy work, where young workers constitute an established and substantial group. While negatively impacting upon many young people’s lives, in recent decades precarious …
Discursive constructions of consumer choice, performance measurement and the marketisation of disability services and aged care in Australia
We show how policy discourses construct consumer choice, performance measurement and quality standards as key technologies in the marketisation of disability services and aged care in Australia. The emergence of performance outcome measurement and increased consumer access to these through diverse consumer facing and interactive platforms enables the state to “govern at a distance” through the management and shaping of outcome indicators rather t…
Out of Place, in a Hostile Space
The trauma associated with resettling in a new country is considerable for young people who have experienced (forced) migration. The loss of place and loss of connection with family and friends is significant. Resettlement in unfamiliar, suburban and rural places can accentuate this sense of loss. In Australia, the difficulty of this challenge is amplified by nationalistic discourses of Australian identity and citizenship, which construct and pre…
Creating a governable reality
Maximising efficiency, marginalising equity
The Australian government deregulated the wheat export market in 2008, ending 60 years of statutory wheat marketing by the Australian Wheat Board (AWB). In this article, I explore the discursive shifts which contributed to this change. I adopt a genealogical approach to this research, by collecting and analysing policy documents produced between 1983 and 2012, to understand how truths—such as efficiency, competition and the ‘good farmer’—were con…
Who wouldn't want more efficiency? Analysing the construction of efficiency as a 'truth' within policy discourses
The discourse of Australian public policy refers regularly to the concept of 'efficiency' as though the meaning of this term is self-evident and shared by all stakeholders in the policy process. Efficiency is constructed as a primary objective of policy, as an ambition which is unequivocally 'good'. This focuses discussion on what policy change is needed to maximise efficiency, rather than the more pertinent question, of 'Why efficiency?' This ar…
Continuing the precedent
The COVID‐19 pandemic is both a health and an economic crisis. Economically, lockdowns across Australia have devastated business and industry, creating immediate spikes in under‐ and unemployment. These impacts intersect with the precarious labour market of casualised and "gig" economy work, where young workers constitute an established and substantial group. While negatively impacting upon many young people’s lives, in recent decades precarious …
This is our home’
On 4 July 2020, in response to a developing ‘second wave’ of COVID-19 cases, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced that a hard lockdown would be immediately implemented in nine public housing towers in Melbourne, Australia. Approximately 500 police were dispatched to implement this lockdown, with residents prevented from leaving their buildings. Over the next fortnight, young residents in these towers, often from socially- and economically-m…
Reimagining Social Work Placements in the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed how social work education is provided, and these changes are particularly pronounced in field education. Globally, the introduction of restrictions on mobility and social interaction have contributed to the cancellation, postponement and early termination of social work field placements. Accrediting bodies, social work field education departments and industry partner agencies have needed to rapidly …
Automating activation in Australia
This article critically analyses the policy discourse that accompanied the introduction of the ‘New Employment Services Model’ (NESM) into the Australian social security system. Critical policy discourse analysis of documents presenting reforms to employment services provision shows that the NESM embeds a logic of activation that construes job seekers both as passive units requiring external motivation (through ‘employment support’ and ‘mutual ob…
Keep Your Wheels Off the Furniture”
The City of Melbourne’s Skate Melbourne Plan purports to be skateboarder-centered, focusing on developing skate spaces for skateboarders. Drawing on research analyzing street skateboarders’ production of space and the importance of public spaces to street skateboarding, we examine how the Skate Melbourne Plan recognizes and supports street skateboarders’ capacity to skate in city environments. We suggest that rather than developing street skatebo…
Discursive constructions of consumer choice, performance measurement and the marketisation of disability services and aged care in Australia
We show how policy discourses construct consumer choice, performance measurement and quality standards as key technologies in the marketisation of disability services and aged care in Australia. The emergence of performance outcome measurement and increased consumer access to these through diverse consumer facing and interactive platforms enables the state to “govern at a distance” through the management and shaping of outcome indicators rather t…
Out of Place, in a Hostile Space
The trauma associated with resettling in a new country is considerable for young people who have experienced (forced) migration. The loss of place and loss of connection with family and friends is significant. Resettlement in unfamiliar, suburban and rural places can accentuate this sense of loss. In Australia, the difficulty of this challenge is amplified by nationalistic discourses of Australian identity and citizenship, which construct and pre…
Who wouldn't want more efficiency? Analysing the construction of efficiency as a 'truth' within policy discourses
The discourse of Australian public policy refers regularly to the concept of 'efficiency' as though the meaning of this term is self-evident and shared by all stakeholders in the policy process. Efficiency is constructed as a primary objective of policy, as an ambition which is unequivocally 'good'. This focuses discussion on what policy change is needed to maximise efficiency, rather than the more pertinent question, of 'Why efficiency?' This ar…
Social security conditionality as a corrective to ‘flawed consumption’
This article explores discursive legitimation of intensified conditionality in Australian social security policy, by the association of responsible consumption with a revised construction of Australian identity. Discursive rationalization of the use of cashless debit cards to constrain consumption choices by citizens is situated in representations of Australian identity and social citizenship. Against growing empirical evidence of a lack of concl…
Creating resilience or private sector dependence? Shifting constructions of the farmer in Australian policy discourses
The Australian Government’s Agricultural Competitiveness White Paper aims to create a profitable and resilient Australian agriculture sector. In doing so, the White Paper emphasises farmers’ individual responses to the structural problems which have undermined farmers’ profitability, such as consolidated commodities markets. In particular, the White Paper recommends that farmers shape their farming practice to make their farms more attractive to …
Experiences of wheat growers in Australia’s western Wimmera following deregulation of the export wheat market
In 2008, the statutory marketing powers held by the Australian Wheat Board were dismantled, with the decision by the Federal Government to deregulate the export wheat market. This article snowball sampled 22 small-to-medium sized wheat growers in Victoria’s western Wimmera to qualitatively research how they perceived this policy affected their operations. Although deregulation was intended to create a competitive market, wheat growers felt the le…
High stress, high demand and high pressure
The COVID‐19 pandemic has created major challenges globally. The social work and human services profession has been required to rapidly respond to policy and social changes. This research aimed to understand how the pandemic has affected social work and human services staff within Melbourne, Victoria. In this paper, we analyse the practice and policy implications of these responses, and outline learning for the human services sector. We draw on i…
A Culturally Humble Approach to Designing a Sports-Based Youth Development Program With African-Australian Community
This article draws on the concept of cultural humility, to describe and analyze a decolonizing approach to co-designing a primary prevention basketball program for young African-Australian people in Melbourne, Australia. We explore the potential for genuine collaboration and power-sharing with a culturally diverse community through collaboratively developing the co-design process and resultant program design. This article highlights the central r…
Creating resilience or private sector dependence? Shifting constructions of the farmer in Australian policy discourses
The Australian Government’s Agricultural Competitiveness White Paper aims to create a profitable and resilient Australian agriculture sector. In doing so, the White Paper emphasises farmers’ individual responses to the structural problems which have undermined farmers’ profitability, such as consolidated commodities markets. In particular, the White Paper recommends that farmers shape their farming practice to make their farms more attractive to …
Experiences of wheat growers in Australia’s western Wimmera following deregulation of the export wheat market
In 2008, the statutory marketing powers held by the Australian Wheat Board were dismantled, with the decision by the Federal Government to deregulate the export wheat market. This article snowball sampled 22 small-to-medium sized wheat growers in Victoria’s western Wimmera to qualitatively research how they perceived this policy affected their operations. Although deregulation was intended to create a competitive market, wheat growers felt the le…
Creating a governable reality
Maximising efficiency, marginalising equity
The Australian government deregulated the wheat export market in 2008, ending 60 years of statutory wheat marketing by the Australian Wheat Board (AWB). In this article, I explore the discursive shifts which contributed to this change. I adopt a genealogical approach to this research, by collecting and analysing policy documents produced between 1983 and 2012, to understand how truths—such as efficiency, competition and the ‘good farmer’—were con…
Who wouldn't want more efficiency? Analysing the construction of efficiency as a 'truth' within policy discourses
The discourse of Australian public policy refers regularly to the concept of 'efficiency' as though the meaning of this term is self-evident and shared by all stakeholders in the policy process. Efficiency is constructed as a primary objective of policy, as an ambition which is unequivocally 'good'. This focuses discussion on what policy change is needed to maximise efficiency, rather than the more pertinent question, of 'Why efficiency?' This ar…
Out of Place, in a Hostile Space
The trauma associated with resettling in a new country is considerable for young people who have experienced (forced) migration. The loss of place and loss of connection with family and friends is significant. Resettlement in unfamiliar, suburban and rural places can accentuate this sense of loss. In Australia, the difficulty of this challenge is amplified by nationalistic discourses of Australian identity and citizenship, which construct and pre…
Service design for social change
Human Centred Design (HCD) is emerging in Australia as a participatory approach to service design in social work and human services organisations. In this article, we reflect upon our incorporation of HCD into a core unit offered to final-year students in a Bachelor of Social Work (Honours) degree, as part of a collaboration between design and social work academics. We highlight successes and challenges, and identify adaptations that can provide …
Young Peoples’ Construction of DIY Dirt Jumps in Melbourne, Australia, Throughout the Covid-19 Lockdowns
Access to public space is critically important for young people, providing key opportunities for self-expression, independence, identity development and relationship building. The Covid-19 pandemic has profoundly affected how young people can engage with public spaces. In Melbourne, Australia, young people have experienced 262 days in lockdown, contributing to escalating anxiety and depression, social isolation, physical health impacts and increa…
Social security conditionality as a corrective to ‘flawed consumption’
This article explores discursive legitimation of intensified conditionality in Australian social security policy, by the association of responsible consumption with a revised construction of Australian identity. Discursive rationalization of the use of cashless debit cards to constrain consumption choices by citizens is situated in representations of Australian identity and social citizenship. Against growing empirical evidence of a lack of concl…
This is our home’
On 4 July 2020, in response to a developing ‘second wave’ of COVID-19 cases, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced that a hard lockdown would be immediately implemented in nine public housing towers in Melbourne, Australia. Approximately 500 police were dispatched to implement this lockdown, with residents prevented from leaving their buildings. Over the next fortnight, young residents in these towers, often from socially- and economically-m…
Keep Your Wheels Off the Furniture”
The City of Melbourne’s Skate Melbourne Plan purports to be skateboarder-centered, focusing on developing skate spaces for skateboarders. Drawing on research analyzing street skateboarders’ production of space and the importance of public spaces to street skateboarding, we examine how the Skate Melbourne Plan recognizes and supports street skateboarders’ capacity to skate in city environments. We suggest that rather than developing street skatebo…
Continuing the precedent
The COVID‐19 pandemic is both a health and an economic crisis. Economically, lockdowns across Australia have devastated business and industry, creating immediate spikes in under‐ and unemployment. These impacts intersect with the precarious labour market of casualised and "gig" economy work, where young workers constitute an established and substantial group. While negatively impacting upon many young people’s lives, in recent decades precarious …
Discursive constructions of consumer choice, performance measurement and the marketisation of disability services and aged care in Australia
We show how policy discourses construct consumer choice, performance measurement and quality standards as key technologies in the marketisation of disability services and aged care in Australia. The emergence of performance outcome measurement and increased consumer access to these through diverse consumer facing and interactive platforms enables the state to “govern at a distance” through the management and shaping of outcome indicators rather t…
Automating activation in Australia
This article critically analyses the policy discourse that accompanied the introduction of the ‘New Employment Services Model’ (NESM) into the Australian social security system. Critical policy discourse analysis of documents presenting reforms to employment services provision shows that the NESM embeds a logic of activation that construes job seekers both as passive units requiring external motivation (through ‘employment support’ and ‘mutual ob…
Reimagining Social Work Placements in the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed how social work education is provided, and these changes are particularly pronounced in field education. Globally, the introduction of restrictions on mobility and social interaction have contributed to the cancellation, postponement and early termination of social work field placements. Accrediting bodies, social work field education departments and industry partner agencies have needed to rapidly …
Research Handbook on the Sociology of Youth
Integrating design thinking into social work education
The contemporary context of Australian social work education creates opportunities for social work educators to reimagine curriculum design and delivery. We propose that design thinking offers one means of broadening approaches to social work teaching in creative and innovative ways. With a focus on the application of knowledge to industry ‘problems’ and ‘person-centered’ solutions, design thinking may complement the social justice values of soci…
Youth Work in a Warm Climate
We write as Australian youth work educators. We consider some of the ethical challenges involved in teaching youth work 'in a warm climate', situated in the diaspora of English youth work but where youth work also has a uniquely Australian character, placing us in an ethically liminal space in our teaching between an understanding of youth work that is robustly defended as being both 'good' and 'true', and what we do, which is different from this…
High stress, high demand and high pressure
The COVID‐19 pandemic has created major challenges globally. The social work and human services profession has been required to rapidly respond to policy and social changes. This research aimed to understand how the pandemic has affected social work and human services staff within Melbourne, Victoria. In this paper, we analyse the practice and policy implications of these responses, and outline learning for the human services sector. We draw on i…
Children’s Guerrilla Play and Dirt Jumps
In 2020-21 the Victorian state government in Australia imposed 262 days of sustained lockdown on Melbourne’s population in a bid to contain the COVID pandemic. These lockdowns, among the longest in the world, affected young people especially. Children were subjected to months of curfews, home schooling using digital platforms and severe travel. Nonetheless some children engaged repeatedly in autonomous and well co-ordinated efforts to construct d…
A Culturally Humble Approach to Designing a Sports-Based Youth Development Program With African-Australian Community
This article draws on the concept of cultural humility, to describe and analyze a decolonizing approach to co-designing a primary prevention basketball program for young African-Australian people in Melbourne, Australia. We explore the potential for genuine collaboration and power-sharing with a culturally diverse community through collaboratively developing the co-design process and resultant program design. This article highlights the central r…
Critical social work and co-design
Co-designing with service users is an increasingly common practice in social and community service organizations and one that graduate social workers are likely to encounter. The potential benefits of using co-design for social work are that service users become active participants in problem solving and develop creative solutions to social issues that may not be achieved by more traditional methods of intervention. However, co-design in social w…
Civics Education and Citizenship in the Anthropocene
The Australian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Electoral Matters recently initiated an ‘Inquiry into Civics Education, Engagement, and Participation in Australia’ to understand ‘the effectiveness of formalised civics education throughout Australia’. While concern about a ‘crisis of democracy’ has informed much recent public discussion around the inquiry, we note how scant attention was given to one of the most significant issues currently fac…
From ‘Hanging Out’ to ‘Designed Out’
This analysis of the redesigned Lilydale and Mooroolbark railway stations shows how the regulation and control of young peoples’ participation in public space is deeply ingrained within spatial design of new public transport spaces in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. This study draws on Rosenberger’s (Philos City 1(1):49–70, 2023) framework for analysing hostile design, coupled with the approaches to youth exclusion developed by Wood (2015), to show …
Chipping’ away at barriers
Sociology (18 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · Business (11 obras) · Engineering (11 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Public relations (9 obras) · Economics (8 obras) · Social Work Education and Practice (6 obras) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (6 obras)