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Dr Sue Bailey

Senior Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 9780 7743
Email: s.bailey@ecu.edu.au
Campus: South West  
Room: BU5.127  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0768-7058

Sue is a Senior Lecturer in the Social Work program in the School of Arts and Humanities.

Current Teaching

  • SWK1102: Philosophy, Knowledge and Ethics
  • SWK3112: Advanced Interpersonal Skills
  • SWK4111: Collective Interventions
  • SWK4121: Activism and Social Change.

Background

Sue's research and education interests are principally concerned with raising awareness of the connections between healthy ecosystems (family, organisations, communities and eco-systems) and human well-being, and then developing strategies to improve and change these relationships. In particular, her research and education focuses on addressing the wicked problems of climate change, ecosystem degradation and mass extinctions using a loss and grief framework. Her approach focuses on supporting the change process for individuals, families, organisations, and communities, locally, nationally and internationally as we work to both mitigate and adapt to ecological degradation and resultant wicked problems like climate change and pandemics.

Awards and Recognition

  • AASW Finalist Agent of Change Category Social Worker of the Year Award 2014.

University and National Teaching Awards

  • 2019: ECU Teaching and Learning Grant 2019.
  • 2012: UWA Teaching Fellowship - Awarded with Katrina Stratton to research how social work field educators can support social work students on placement.
  • 2004: Teaching Internship - Awarded in competition by the Teaching and Learning Committee at the University of Western Australia.

National and International Research Awards

  • 2004: Australian Federation of University Women (WA) Joyce Riley Bursary – Postgraduate bursary to fund travel costs for a return trip to East Timor to complete qualitative interview process.
  • 2004: Dean’s Postgraduate Award - Awarded in competition to assist with costs to attend and present a paper at the Education and Social Action Conference at the University of Technology, Sydney.
  • 2003: Grace Vaughan Award - Social justice and human rights award to fund travel costs to East Timor to conduct qualitative interviews for PhD research.
  • 2002: Australian Postgraduate Award - PhD scholarship at the University of Western Australia. Topic: Social work responses to Terrorism
  • 2011: Jayasuriya Prize - for the highest Honours dissertation mark Topic: "I'll guess you'll never look at the newspaper the same way!"

Other

  • 2001: Margaret Stockbridge Memorial Prize.
  • 2001: Convocation Prize - for the highest aggregate in Year 4 of the Social Work course.

Research Areas and Interests

  • Critical Social Work;
  • Eco-social work;
  • Ecological grief Community Gardens.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Western Australia, 2011.
  • Bachelor of Social Work, The University of Western Australia, 2002.

Research Outputs

2024

Journal Articles

  • Costello, M., Nyanjom, J., Bailey, S., Ireson, D. (2024). Care in the academy: How our online writing group transformed into a caring community. International Journal of Educational Research, 127(Article in press), Article number 102441. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2024.102441.

2023

Journal Articles

  • Kelly, O., White, P., Butera, F., Illingworth, S., Martens, P., Huynen, M., Bailey, S., Schuitema, G., Cowman, S. (2023). A transdisciplinary model for teaching and learning for sustainability science in a rapidly warming world. Sustainability Science, 18(6), 2707-2722. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01407-z.

2022

Journal Articles

  • Kelly, O., Illingworth, S., Butera, F., Dawson, V., White, P., Blaise, M., Martens, P., Schuitema, G., Huynen, M., Bailey, S., Cowman, S. (2022). Education in a warming world: Trends, opportunities and pitfalls for institutes of higher education. Frontiers in Sustainability, 3(2022), article number 920375. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsus.2022.920375.

2021

Journal Articles

  • Godden, N., Farrant, B., Yallup Farrant, J., Heyink, E., Carot Collins, E., Burgemeister, B., Tabeshfar, M., Barrow, J., West, M., Kieft, J., Rothwell, M., Leviston, Z., Bailey, S., Blaise, M., Cooper, T. (2021). Climate change, activism, and supporting the mental health of children and young people: Perspectives from Western Australia. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 57(11), 1759-1764. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpc.15649.

2020

Journal Articles

  • Gerrish, NJ., Bailey, S. (2020). Maternal Grief: A Qualitative Investigation of Mothers’ Responses to the Death of a Child from Cancer. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 81(2), 197-241. https://doi.org/10.1177/0030222818762190.

2018

Journal Articles

2014

Journal Articles

  • Gerrish, N., Neimeyer, R., Bailey, S. (2014). Exploring maternal grief: A mixed-methods investigation of mothers’ responses to the death of a child from cancer. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 27(3), 151-173. https://doi.org/10.1080/10720537.2014.904700.

2012

Journal Articles

  • Gerrish, NJ., Bailey, S. (2012). Using the Biographical Grid Method to explore Parental Grief following the Death of a Child. Bereavement Care: an international journal for those who help bereaved people, 31(1), 11-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/02682621.2012.654695.

Research Projects

  • Enhancing disaster resilience and climate justice in the Western Australian community services sector, Department of Fire and Emergency Services, Grant, 2024 ‑ 2027, $892,362.
  • Climate justice toolkit , Lotterywest, Grant, 2022 ‑ 2025, $362,071.
  • Climate change and the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people, Healthway (WA Health Promotion Foundation), Health Promotion Research - Exploratory Research Grants, 2023 ‑ 2025, $74,993.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Just in Time: Imagining and Enabling the Climate-Just Transformation of Community Service Organisations in Wester Australia

Completed Supervisions

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy: Data from the heart: an autoethnographic study of working with marginalized communities as an art therapist
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