Department of Social Work
 | Professor Aron Shlonsky is Professor at Monash University School of Primary and Allied Health Care (Social Work) and the Director of Data Matters: Social Welfare Analytics Research at Monash. He is known internationally for his work in child, youth and family services, particularly in the generation, synthesis and implementation of evidence to inform practice and policy in the child and family services field. Prof Shlonsky currently collaborates with MARC researchers on projects such as Evaluation of the MCM Youth Housing Initiative: A User-Centred, Hybrid Design |
 | Professor Philip Mendes teaches Social Policy and Community Development, and is the Director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit in the Department of Social Work. His key research areas include young people transitioning from out-home-care, income support including compulsory income management, social workers and policy practice, illicit drugs policy, Indigenous social policy, and Jewish community responses to institutional child sexual abuse. Prof Mendes currently collaborates with MARC researchers on projects such as |
| A/Prof Melissa Petrakis is Group Director of Social Work Innovation, Transformation and Collaboration in Health (SWITCH) Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University. A/Prof Petrakis' career focus in research is to excellence in mental health services research. She has a particular emphasis on the implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP), conducting practice-based research (PBR), and the fostering of practitioner-researcher opportunities for skilled clinicians. She is actively engaged in supporting lived experience voices in research, and in co-design and co-production with emerging consumer and carer researchers, working as an ally to foster, promote and elevate the leadership of people with lived and living experience. A/Prof Petrakis currently collaborates with MARC researchers on projects such as Evaluation of the MCM Youth Housing Initiative: A User-Centred, Hybrid Design |
 | A/Prof Susan Baidawi is an Associate Professor, Director of the Higher Degrees by Research (HDR) Program, and Co-Director of the Monash Criminal Justice Research Consortium (CJRC) in the Department of Social Work. Her research expertise lies at the nexus of the child welfare and criminal justice fields. Dr Baidawi has conducted and authored outputs for numerous studies, reviews and evaluations in the fields of youth and adult criminal justice and child protection, including research that focuses on children at the intersection of child protection and youth justice systems, responses to younger children charged with offending from 10-13 years, and place-based approaches for addressing youth violence. A/Prof Baidawi currently collaborates with MARC researchers on projects such as |