Sydney University Press: Recent submissions
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The Nordic welfare model, civil society and social work
Published 2014-09-08Over several years the United Nations (UN) has been ranking the Nordic populations amongst the happiest in the world. One of the factors that seem to contribute to the happiness is an underlying trust between people. Another ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Learning from our past: climate change and disaster interventions in practice
Published 2014-09-08Social work has a lengthy history of intervening in disaster situations – natural and human-made, especially in philanthropic work with faith-based organisations and individuals. This changed with institutional forms of ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Educating social workers without boundaries through the Intercultural Social Intervention Model (ISIM)
Published 2014-09-08Some innovative and replicable aspects about the main contents of one educational program for social workers in Spanish are presented. The program is based on the critical analysis of implicit models and the development ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays
Published 2017-01-012014 saw the long-awaited first publication of Elizabeth Harrower’s final novel, 'In Certain Circles', written nearly four decades earlier and withdrawn by the author shortly before its scheduled publication by Macmillan ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Between the Murray and the Sea: Aboriginal Archaeology in Southeastern Australia (front matter and introduction)
Published 2017-01-01Tourism Victoria’s long-running ‘jigsaw’ campaign took the diversity of the state as its key motif (Figure I.1). This also provides an appropriate theme when exploring the area’s past. In this book, I reflect on this ...Open AccessBook chapter