Dr Maree Higgins
Doctor of Philosophy (Social Work), ACU National
Bachelor of Social Work (Hons First Class), 国产精品
Maree Higgins is Senior Lecturer and the Social Work Honours Program Convenor at 国产精品. Maree undertakes research on human rights priorities of people from refugee backgrounds, those with disability, older people and missing girls. Maree provides research supervision and teaches professional ethics and practice courses.听She is an Associate of the Australian Institute of Human Rights and is affiliated with the Forced Migration Research Network, the Kaldor Centre and the Gendered Violence Research Network.听
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
Evans P, Baldry E, Sheehan R, Newton BJ, Higgins M, Trotter C, Flynn C & Urquhart R听Missing girls: from childhood runaways to criminalised woman听(2022-2025)听Total Grant Awarded:听$204,307
Newton, BJ, Higgins, M, Trotter, C., & Sheehan, R., Missing girls: from childhood runaway to criminalised woman听(2019)听Total Grant Awarded:听$5,000
Baldry, E., Evans, P., Newton, BJ, Higgins, M., Trotter, C., & Sheehan, R., Missing girls: from childhood runaway to criminalised woman听(2019)听Total Grant Awarded:听$5,000
Lenette, C., Banks, S., Milne, EJ, Nunn, C.,听Higgins, M.,听Atem, A., & Nguyen, D., (2019)听Ethics and community-based participatory research in refugee studies: Co-designing a framework with refugee-background co-researchers听(2019)听Total Grant Awarded:听$5,000
厂辞濒别:听WIL Futures. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 国产精品 (2019) Total Grant Awarded:听$10,000
Ravulo, Fox, Higgins, Blakemore:听NUW Alliance Community Hub (NUWACH).听Newcastle, 国产精品 and Wollongong University Scheme (2018)听Total Grant Awarded:听$1,500
Maree's听research focuses on social justice, human rights and contextualised lived experience. She is an investigator on the following projects:听
- Ethics and community-based participatory research in refugee studies: Co-designing a framework with refugee-background co-researchers
- Missing girls: from childhood runaway to criminalised woman
- SESLHD 'Beyond Respite' Project
- WIL Futures: Love to Life!
- NUW Alliance Community Hub (NUWACH)
I proudly engage with social work bodies including the Australian Heads of Schools of Socal Work, the National field Educational Network. and the Australian and New Zealand Social Work and Welfare Education and Research group as well as human rights and policy bodies including the Kaldor Centre, the Gendered Violence Research Network and the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific.听
My research engages听with people with lived experience of forced migration, incarceration,听disability and older age, and the organisations working to promote their safety and inclusion including STARTTS, Foundation House, The Black Dog Institute听and the Prince of Wales Hospital.听
My Research Supervision
PhD:听Karen Daniels听(2019, Principal): Experiences of people with SMI in Forensic Settings; Ben Garcia-Lee (2023, Principal): Belonging, intellectual disability and complex support needs; Iqra Riaz (2023, Principal) Preventing Intimate Partner Violence in Pakistan; Simon Metcalfe (2023, Joint)听The Affective Dimensions of Border Regimes: Australia鈥檚 Violent Border Policies Towards People Seeking Asylum; Anna Laverty-Wilson (2023, Joint)听Family members experiences in the immediate aftermath of an expected death at home. What are their and palliative care clinicians鈥 perspectives on support needs during this time?听听Honours:
Completions
Masters: Ms Miki Hachigo (2021, Principal):听Transition into aged care for people who have experienced long-term homelessness and chronic alcohol use;
Honours:听Freddy听Burke (2022): 鈥淚鈥檒l do it on my own, but I鈥檓 never alone鈥: lived experience and practitioner perspectives of autonomy in Eating Disorder treatment and recovery.听Kate Mesaglio (2022): Considering voice and justice: Examining how courts view and respond to technology-facilitated abuse occurring post-separation.听Rona Zaire-Sasson (2022):听Suspicion, Ignorance, and Withheld Praise: What A Critical Feminist Analysis Tells Us About Women鈥檚 Experiences in Family Law.听Abbey Somers (2022): Analysis of policies relating to the provision of care to Aboriginal women throughout birthing in the New South Wales maternity care subsystem.听Meghan Sproule听(2021): Inclusive sexual education with people with Autism Spectrum Disorder.听Patricia Ho听(2021): Human rights, displacement, conflict and war. Kaydee Jackosalem听(2021): Accessibility, engagement, and culturally responsive practice with people from CALD backgrounds.听Marina Aguirre (2020):听Guatemalan Mayan women鈥檚 lived experiences of safety, freedom and identity. Jessica Totenhofer (2020):听Social Work Acts of Resistance to Australia鈥檚 Refugee and Asylum Seeker Policies.听Danya Schonberger (2019):听Use of strengths-based approaches with people with intellectual disability.听Timothy Indsto (2019):听Media representations about male forced migrants.听
My Teaching
- SOCW1001 Introduction to Social Work
- SOCW2100 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in Social Work
- SOCW3009 Ethics and Reflective Practice
- SOSS3006 Social Policy in the Workplace
- SOCW4015 Social Work Honours (Thesis)
- SOCW4016 Social Work Honours (Practice Portfolio)
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