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Making & Breaking Social Policy

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 a central piece of content for two social policy topics in Social Work at Flinders University. It is hosted by Dr Ben Lohmeyer, Lecturer in Social Work at Flinders Uni (www.flinders.edu.au/people/ben.lohmeyer).
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A Model of Care - Aboriginal Prisoner Health in South Australia with Luke Cantley

Making & Breaking Social PolicyJul 23, 2021

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'Stirring shit' with A/Prof Lorna Hallahan: Disability Advocacy and Royal Commissions

'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 someone who likes to 'stir shit' and has a nasty habit of showing up. Lorna is funny and insightful offering us a challenge to consider how we can set people free. 

Follow Lorna on Twitter @lhallahan

Lorna mentions the following resources:

Hallahan, L. (2020) Avashai Margalit’s concept of decency: potential for the lived experience project in social work education? Chapter 20 in The Routledge Handbook of Critical Pedagogies for Social Work Routledge, London pp. 233-244

Hallahan, L. (2010). Legitimising social work disability policy practice: Pain or praxis?. Australian Social Work, 63(1), 117-132. 


Hosted by Ben Lohmeyer

Edited by Ryan Manhire

Music by Anthem of Rain

Aug 02, 202139:08
A Model of Care - Aboriginal Prisoner Health in South Australia with Luke Cantley

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 makes and breaks human service practice (and vice versa).

Follow Luke on Twitter: @luke_cantley

The Model of Care for Aboriginal Prisoner Health and Wellbeing in South Australia by the Wardliparingga Aboriginal Research Unit in the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) can be accessed here: https://www.sahmri.org/aboriginal-health-equity-theme/news-185/


Hosted by Ben Lohmeyer

Edited by Ryan Manhire

Music by Anthem of Rain

Jul 23, 202157:49
A Quick Intro to a Social Policy Podcast

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 all the other things. Thanks!

Jul 22, 202102:49