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Making & Breaking Social Policy
by Dr Ben Lohmeyer
Featuring a range of guests involved in making and breaking social policy, this podcast is about how we all live together (social) and how we make that work (policy). This podcast was created as the central content for teaching social policy topics to Social Work students at Flinders University. It is hosted by Dr Ben Lohmeyer (www.flinders.edu.au/people/ben.lohmeyer).
Episodes
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Unaccompanied child homelessness with A/Prof Catherine Robinson
This week, we are talking with Associate Professor CatherineRobinson about child and youth homelessness. Catherine challenges us about the person we imagine when we think about homeless children and young people. She showsus that who we imagine is homeless makes it easier for us to ignore the...
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Thinking about the subjects of school bullying with A/Prof Deb Green
This week we are talking with Associate Professor Deb Greenabout school bullying and the subjects of social policies. Deb’s research has focused on the persistent bully, or those who keep bullying despite intervention. She also helps us think about the other people, institutions and social norms...
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Youth Voice, Loneliness and Silences in Youth Policy with the South Australian Youth Forum
This week we are talking with the South Australian Youth Forum about loneliness and the importance of youth voice in research and decision-making. The SA Youth Forum help us understand the value for youngpeople and for research on important topics like loneliness of including them as much as...
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Social media and young people's participation with Prof Phillipa Collin
This week we are talking with Professor Philippa Collinabout young people’s political participation and the impact of recent policy that restricts access to social media. Philippa helps us think about ideas like child rights, digitalcitizenship and how society (including adults) might benefit…
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Domestic and Family Violence with Dr Alice Campbell: Gender, Power and Presumptions
We are talking with Dr Alice Campbell about Domestic and Family violence and examining underpinning presuppositions and assumptions. We also think about the presuppositions and assumptions within the reporting on the One Nation result in the recent SA Election. This episode was recorded on the...
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Problem representations and algal blooms with Dr Kirsten Macaitis
We are talking about problem representations in social policy through the lens of the reporting on the algal bloom in South Australia. Dr Kirsten Macaitis from JBI at Adelaide University joins us to help make sense of the ways that different types of knowledge shape how we respond to social…
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The complexity of “ramping” and healthcare in South Australia – with Dr Jodie Curth-Bibb
We are talking about “ramping” in South Australia with the excellent Dr Jodie Curth-Bibb, Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Flinders University. It is just 11 days away from an election at the time of recording and Jodie helps us understand the complexity of the political landscape in South...
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Public Education and Transport – A new era for Making and Breaking Social Policy
It’s a new era at Making and Breaking Social Policy with a new format and co-host! Welcome (back) to Dr Tin Ablaza! We are recording live each week for the next 8 weeks with arange of guests and topics. In this episode, we chat about the new format, our different approaches to social policy and...
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Employment, Precarity and Workforce Australia with Tin Ablaza
Tin drops in to tell us about her research on Workforce Australia and how it measures up as a way to tackle precarity and unemployment in Australia. We chat about Work for the Dole, Mutual Obligations and the casualisation of work. Honestly, it was a huge chat and we could have talked for ages....
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The realities of borrowing from the bank of Mum and Dad to buy a home with Dr Julia Cook
Julia drops in to tell us about her research on what it is really like when people borrow from the bank of Mum and Dad when they want to buy a home... or from their siblings! We then break down the pros and cons of the policies Labor, the Coalition, and the Greens took to the 2025 Federal…
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Listening to those who know with Shona Reid - SA Guardian for Children and Young People
Shona chats about her approach to working with children and young people in Child Protection and Juvenile Justice to raise their voices and insights about legislation that impact their lives. Talking about recently proposed changes to the Children and Young People (Safety and Support) Bill 2024,...
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Zapping Tinnitus and Self-Compassion: 3MT success with Tharin Sayed and Leah Smolarek
Tharin and Leah share about their PhD projects and the challenges and rewards of competing in the Flinders Uni 3 Minute Thesis competition. Tharin is investigating a solution for Tinnits that involves zapping brains and Leah is investigating the impact on self-compassion in how we act to…
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Yarning and Indigenous Data Sovereignty with Luke Cantley
Luke - now an official friend of the Pod ;) - chats about his new paper about Yarning as a culturally protected practice and how it can be used appropriately in social work research. Luke's Paper: Cantley, L. (2024). Indigenous Data Sovereignty: What Can Yarning Teach Us?. Australian Social Work,...
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Contextual Safeguarding and Family Group Conferencing with Dr Rachael Owens
Dr Rachael Owens explains Contextual Safeguarding and how it complements Family Group conferencing in the UK. She also shares about her career in creative arts and how it informs her Social Work practice and scholarship. More about Rachael here - https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/rachael-owens/ Find...
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Youth loneliness and undesirable connections with A/Prof Keming Yang
A/Prof Keming Yang chats about his research on loneliness among 14 year olds utilising the Millennium Cohort Study. He describes the need to rethink the way we conceptualise loneliness to account for the presence of undesirable connections and relationships (like bullying). More about Keming here…
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Why youth mentoring makes good policy with Tiff and Jessie from Sammy D
Tiff Downing and Jessie Bennie chat about the youth mentoring program at the Sammy D Foundation and why it makes for good policy (and good practice) with young people. Sammy D recently partnered with the Social Work Innovation Research Living Space at Flinders Uni to conduct an evaluation of this...
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Participatory processes with policymakers: Navigating multiple perspectives with A/Pro Orton
A/Prof Andrew Orton chats about his experience of working with policymakers and practitioners in policy creation through participatory practices. We discuss the opportunities and challenges of participatory practices in this context including the ethical dilemmas, power structures, and building...
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The Social Contract and Neoliberal Social Policy
A/Prof Jonathon Wistow chats about how despite the hold of competitive and possessive individualism in neoliberal societies, he thinks the Social Contract is not yet broken. We discuss his new book Social Policy, Political Economy and the Social Contract and how he uses Complexity theory and…
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament: Flinders Uni Information Session
This is a special episode about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament. This episode is a republishing of a Voice to Parliament event organised by the Office of Indigenous Strategy and Engagement at Flinders University. The panel includes: Dwayne Coulthard, member of the...
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Social work and social policy in prisons with Kit Lian Wong (General Manager of Yatala Labour Prison)
Kit Lian talks about the opportunities and challenges of managing a prison as a social worker. Kit Lian is one of the first social workers to manage a prison in South Australia. We chat about the tensions when implementing government policy in a prison while maintaining social work values such as...
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Cross-cultural child protection: Insights from Ghana with Dr Alhassan Abdullah
Dr Alhassan chats with us about his work on child protection and a recent project investigating the welfare of refugee children in Ghana. Alhassan talks about the importance of engaging with multiple stakeholders (refugees, professionals and community) to gain a holistic understanding of the...
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Focusing on the invisible – The unseen impacts of youth violence and school bullying (Flinders University Fearless Minds Series)
This episode focuses on school bullying as an issue that is tied to the social experiences of being young, as well as the spaces and times (spatiotemporal) when and where school bullying happens. This episode is a recording from Flinders Uni’s Fearless Minds Series, in which I am interviewed…
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Drug policy in Australia: decriminalisation, legalisation and regulation with Isabelle Hermes
Isabelle Hermes (PhD candidate at Flinders University) comes to chat about Addictions and Drug Policy in Australia. She has a practice background in Social Work as a drug and alcohol counsellor with homeless, criminalised, and at-risk young people. Isabelle unpacks the key pillars in the National...
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Tackling loneliness and building social connection in community centres with Kylie Fergusen CEO of Community Centres SA
Kylie (CEO of Community Centres SA) chats about the findings of a research project on what Community Centres are doing to tackle loneliness and build social connection. We discuss the importance of physical and social ‘bumping spaces’ that encourage interaction and building connection. Kylie also...
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A gender-ignoring lens: Young people’s attitudes towards Domestic Violence with Dr Erin Carlisle
Erin tells us about the findings from an in-depth national investigation of Australian young people’s attitudes and understanding of domestic violence from her work with ANROWS. Erin describes the implications for policy and practice design of discovering a gender-ignoring lens – utopian...
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Housing and Homelessness with Nat Cook MP SA Minister for Human Services
Nat talks to us about what is and will be done about the skyrocketing housing market locking young people out of homeownership, the backlog of social housing need and the policy choices that produce homelessness. She plans to put homefulness on the policy agenda and lived experience at the heart…
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Make it 21: Extending out of home care to young people until they are 21 years of age
In this episode, Lexi talks to us about her experience of growing up in out of home care. She is an advocate for the Make it 21 campaign championed by the CREATE Foundation. More about the Make it 21 campaign: https://create.org.au/make-it-21/ More about CREATE: https://create.org.au/ Hosted by…
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How to be heard: Engaging the community in parliamentary lawmaking with Dr Sarah Moulds
In this episode, Dr Sarah Moulds from Uni SA gives us a realistic but hopeful account of her experience and research on getting the community involved in legislation and policy creation. She talks us through the various mechanism governments use to consult with the public and give us some hot…
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We have to do better: Raising the Age of Criminal Responsibility
In this episode Sean Lappin (Connected Self) and Luke Cantley (SWIRLS) chat about the Raising the Age of Criminal Responsibility Campaign. Drawing on ideas including Two Way Learning, Self Determination for Aboriginal People, Restorative Justice and Intergenerational Trauma they help us imagine…
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Preventing childhood obesity through sustainable infrastructure with Dr Michelle Jones
Dr Michelle Jones chats about her research on the sustainability of the Obesity Prevention and Lifestyle (OPAL) program run in South Australia between 2009 and 2017. She unpacks how a shift in the program funding spurred the community to take ownership over part of the project they valued most....
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How to ensure children are visible and heard in child protection with Dr Carmela Bastian
Dr Carmela Bastian chats about her research on the factors the facilitate the centring children in social work practice in the child protection system. She talks about how children can be made invisible due to the competing priorities of the child protection system, but also how social workers…
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Who is going to do this work? The Domestic and Family Violence workforce with Prof Sarah Wendt and Dr Kate Seymour
Prof Sarah Wendt and Senior Lecturer Kate Seymour chat about the implication of the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children for developing a Domestic Violence Workforce. They draw attention to the gendered nature of the problem of domestic violence and the similarly...
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What change is possible through youth case management programs? – with Dr Joel McGregor
Dr Joel McGregor and I have a chat about what change is really possible in young people’s lives through case management. Joel is a Lecturer in Criminology at Swinburne University. His work focuses on the complex relational practices that make up a case manager’s day-to-day work. We chat about a...
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'Stirring shit' with A/Prof Lorna Hallahan: Disability Advocacy and Royal Commissions
Associate Professor Lorna Hallanhan, Deputy Director of SWIRLS at Flinders Uni, talks to us about her experiences working as a social worker in Disability Advocacy and for the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability. She describes herself as…
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A Model of Care - Aboriginal Prisoner Health in South Australia with Luke Cantley
In this episode, Luke Cantley, Research Associate with SWIRLS at Flinders Uni, talks us through the Model of Care for Aboriginal Prisoner Health and Wellbeing in South Australia. His experiences as a researcher and practitioner in the South Australian Prison systems demonstrate how social policy...
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A Quick Intro to a Social Policy Podcast
Welcome to a podcast about the making and breaking of social policy. Sounds boring? Yeah probably, but we'll try to not let it be. Here you will find interviews with academics, practitioners, activists and anyone else I can convince to have a chat. If you like the pod please share, subscribe and...
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Featuring a range of guests involved in making and breaking social policy, this podcast is about how we all live together (social) and how we make that work (policy). This podcast was created as the central content for teaching social policy topics to Social Work students at Flinders University. It is hosted by Dr Ben Lohmeyer (www.flinders.edu.au/people/ben.lohmeyer).
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