Carolyn Noble

Profile Details

Name: Carolyn Noble, PhD

Email: Carolyn.noble@acap.edu.au or Carolyn.noble@vu.edu.au

Position within Board of Directors and Terms of Serving: Co-Chair Publications Committee and Executive Editor of Social Dialogue www.social-dialogue.com

Affiliation and Position (other than IASSW): Professor and Head of Social Work, ACAP, Sydney Australia and Professor Emerita, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

Membership of organisations (other than IASSW): APASWE, AASW and ANZSWWER

Educational Qualification/s: (Degrees):  BSW, MSW and PhD

Languages written and spoken: English

Interest Areas (social work teaching, research and practice):

Carolyn’s research interests include social work philosophy and ethics, work-based learning and professional supervision and theory and practice development in social work .Further areas of research include gender democracy and equal employment opportunity for women in higher education and human services. Carolyn has published widely in her areas of research and continues to present her work nationally and internationally.

Recent publications

Noble, C., Gray, M., & Johnston, L. 2016 Critical Supervision for the Human Services: A Social Model to Promote Learning and Value-Based Practice. London, UK: JKP.

Noble, C., Strauss, H., & Littlechild, B. 2014  (eds) Global Social Work: Crossing Borders, Blurring Boundaries, Sydney: Sydney University Press.

Current Activities (social work teaching, research, practice, others):

Carolyn is currently working on a book “Radicals in Australian Social Work: Four Decades of Activism and Social Change” and teaches International Social Work and Leadership for the Profession.