As she was observing the consequences of the millennium drought on her rural community, Margaret Alston realised that there was hardly any discussion of the social consequences of the drought and almost nothing that examined the experiences of rural women.  For Margaret, a focus on social justice means that you can see what is in other people’s blindspots, and this points the way to a new area of social work practice.

SHOW NOTES

Margaret’s career summary is on the University of Newcastle website: https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/margaret-alston#career

Publications:

Rural Women and Leadership, Breaking through the Grass Ceiling, Harwood Publishers, UK, 2000.

Innovative Human Services Practice: Changing Landscapes, Pan Macmillan, 2009.

Social Work: Fields of Practice, Oxford University Press, (3rd edition) 2018 and

 Research for Social Workers, Allen & Unwin (4th edition) 2018.

Research, Action and Policy: Addressing the Gendered Impacts of Climate, Springer Books, 2012

Women and Climate Change in Bangladesh Routledge  2015

Women, political struggles and gender equality in South Asia , Pan Macmillan, 2016

Ecological Social Work: Towards Sustainability , Pan Macmillan 2016

Social Science Research Ethics for a Globalizing World: Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives Routledge Advances in Research Methods, 2016

Social Work in Post-Disaster Sites, to be published by Routledge in 2018

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

The AASW respectfully acknowledges the past and present traditional owners and on-going custodians of the land on which we meet.  We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, their ancestors and families, and to Elders of other communities who may be present.