Social Worker Leaders Celebrating Excellence - March 2025

The AASW PhD Webinar Series Social Work Leaders: Celebrating Excellence Webinar Series

This exciting and dynamic webinar will take place on Thursday the 13th of March from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm AEDT

Free for members, join us to celebrate three outstanding AASW Members who have elevated the social work profession through their research. Presenters will commence the session with an introduction to their work and findings and discuss how their research intersects with real world practice, as well as exploring their own career journeys and experiences from their PhDs and beyond.

This webinar will be chaired by Dr Louise Whitaker, panel members to be announced soon!

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Read more about your March PhD speakers below!

Chairperson:

Dr Louise Whitaker

Dr Louise Whitaker, Senior Lecturer, Social Work and Community Welfare, Southern Cross University teacher is a member of the AASW National Research Committee. Her research examines mental health social work practice and pedagogy. Before joining academia in 2010, she practiced in mental health, women's health, Legal Aid and cancer workforce development. Dr Whitaker is particularly interested in acknowledging and capturing practice wisdom through practice based social work research.

Panellists

More information coming soon!!