Assoc. Prof. Lisa Hodge
Head – School, School of Social Work, IHM
BIO
Associate Professor Lisa Hodge is Head of School (Social Work) at the Institute of Health & Management (IHM), Melbourne, Australia. As a leader in higher education, Lisa has experience and a special interest in delivering education and coordinating the research in the discipline of social work. Throughout her career, she has managed large teams, overseen seven academic programs and taught 31 units across three Australian universities. Her teaching strategies are fueled by research and based on practical experience, which helps her achieve excellent student engagement, promote innovation and demonstrate strong organizational abilities and leadership.
RESEARCH OUTPUT
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Lengthy unpaid placements in social work: Exploring the impacts on student wellbeing
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Speaking the unspeakable: Artistic expression in eating disorder research and schema therapy
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‘THIS UNPAID PLACEMENT MAKES YOU POOR’: Australian social work students’ experiences of the financial burden of field education
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‘I had to take a casual contract and work one day a week’: Students’ experiences of lengthy university placements as drivers of precarity
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How far to beautiful? Thinness, eating disorders and sexual trauma
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Purification, punishment, and control: eating disorders, self-harm, and child sexual abuse
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Write on! Cultivating social capital in a writing group for doctoral education and beyond
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Lost for words: Drawing as a visual product and process to give voice to silenced experiences.
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Masking the self: Understanding the link between eating disorders and child sexual abuse
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Capturing the research journey: A feminist application of Bakhtin to examine eating disorders and child sexual abuse
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Beyond a sugarcoated pill: critical approaches to social work field supervision
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“My Anxiety Was Through the Roof”: The Gendered Nature of Financial Stress and its Impact on Mental Health and Well-Being for Women When Undertaking Social Work Placements
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Australian Council of Heads of Social Work Education: Submission to the Australian Universities Accord
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Re-Envisioning Field Education in Australian Social Work to Combat Placement Poverty: Students’, Educators’ and Practitioners’ Perceptions
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Australian students’, educators’, and practitioners’ experiences of modified field education standards during the COVID-19 pandemic
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A Dialogical Approach to Understanding Women’s Experiences of Eating Disorders and Child Sexual Abuse
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Work-Integrated Learning (WIL): An investigation of strategies to enable access, participation, and success for Regional Remote Area and Australian First Nations students
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University of Tasmania Open Access Repository Cover sheet
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Fostering Women’s Empowerment: Training Pathways for Economic Inclusion, Increased Resilience, and Work Readiness
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As COVID-19 hits Australian universities hard, how have online writing groups enabled researchers to stay connected and sustain their work?
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Incredible 46,000 raised at Ayrshire Hospice Autumn Ball.
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Liam struck down with same terminal illness as his big sister
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Mum fights for life in hospital with damaged lungs from mouldy Muirkirk council flat
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Best inspection report ever for Elderbank Early Years Centre
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Fit Ayrshire Dads founder climbs Goatfell three times in a day
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Mum urges women to get smear test after loss of beautiful daughter
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Wee warrior Kieran now sitting up and talking after operation
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Mum tells of terror after son’chased and stabbed’with used needle
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Lengthy unpaid work integrated learning (WIL) in Social Work: Exploring the gendered impacts on student wellbeing
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Radical challenges facing field education: The case for critical pedagogy
FUNDED RESEARCH
2022-2023
Assoc. Prof. Lisa Hodge, Prof. Christine Morley (QUT), Ms. Heather McIntyre (UniSA), Ms Esther Gounder (CDU), Dr. Tina Kostecki, (UTAS). Lengthy unpaid work integrated learning in Social Work: An investigation and evaluation of strategies to enable access, participation, and success for regional or remote and First Nations students.
Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP), Australian Government, Department of Education, Skills and Employment, $147,000.
2022
Prof Christine Morley (QUT), Prof Linda Briskman (Western Sydney Uni), Dr Lynelle Watts (Curtin Uni), Assoc. Prof. Lisa Hodge (CDU), Dr Nicole Hill (Uni of Melb), Dr Maree Higgins (UNSW), A/Prof Robyn Martin (RMIT).
Exploring socially just and sustainable field education curriculum standards for social work that privilege student learning and well-being in contemporary contexts- ACHSWE, $8,000.
2020
Dr Lisa Hodge, Dr. Romana Morda (VU), Ms Angela Paredes Castro (VU), Dr. Jill Bamforth (Swinburne), Emeritus Prof. Anne Jones (VU).
An Evaluation of the Placement Circle – Fostering Women’s Empowerment: Research into Training Pathways for Economic Inclusion, Increased Resilience and Work Readiness- WomenCan Australia, $70,000.
2017
Dr Lisa Hodge, Dr. Nicole Oke (VU), Dr. Shelley Turner (Monash). Lengthy Unpaid Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) in Social Work: Exploring the Impacts on Student Wellbeing.
Victoria University: Feminist Research Network Seed Funding, $1,500.
Pilot study that was extended to be a national study, including five universities.
2017
Dr Michelle Moss, Dr Lisa Hodge. TEAH: A Therapeutic model for Working with Traumatised Children from Indigenous Communities. CDU: Engineering, Health, Science & Environment 2017 Faculty Project Grant, $10,000.
2016
Dr Lisa Hodge, Dr. Michelle Moss. TEAH: A Therapeutic model for Working with Traumatised Children from Indigenous Communities. CDU: Engineering, Health, Science & Environment 2017 Faculty Project Grant, $3,250.
2016
Professor Nicholas Procter, Dr Lisa Hodge and Dr. Monika Ferguson. Psychological Autopsy and Suicide Prevention. Commonwealth Government of Australia, $50,000.