Contact details +6492136349
Dr Lynsey Ellis
Senior Professional Clinician in Social Work
School of Social WorkResearch interests include field education, environmental and sustainable social work.
Twitter: SocialClimateNZ
Dr Ellis is a registered social worker, her professional background spans homeless and transient populations, social services management, forensic mental health and addictions. Her experience extends to twenty years of practice before teaching social work at 羞羞视频 from 2010. Dr Ellis is the Field Education Team coordinator for the school of social work coordinatong placements for Auckland and Northland regions. She completed her PhD Social Work in November 2020 on Sustainable social work: researching the impacts of climate change on social work education and practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. She lives with her husband and two children North Auckland.
Professional
Contact details
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Ph: +649 213 6349
Location: College of Health, Sir Neil Walter Ext
Campus: Albany
Certifications and Registrations
- Registration, SWRB, Social Workers Registration Board
Research Expertise
Research Interests
Lynsey completed her PhD Social Work (2020) her title and objectives are: "Sustainable social work: a response to the impacts of climate emergency from social work education and practice in Aotearoa, New Zealand".
Overall research aims:
- To communicate the impacts of climate change to the social work community.
- To encourage an awareness and reflection of how these impacts will affect service users of social work in New Zealand.
- To work with the social work students, educators and practitioners using the cycles of action research, to make sense of the impacts of climate change and translate their meaning for the New Zealand social work practice context.
- To encourage social workers to develop their practice using a sustainable approach.
- To identify future training needs for social workers on sustainability and climate change impacts.
Thematics
Health and Well-being
Area of Expertise
Field of research codes
Clinical Social Work Practice (160701):
Social Program Evaluation (160703):
Social Work (160700):
Social Work not elsewhere classified (160799):
Studies In Human Society (160000)
Keywords
Sustainable Social Work
Research Outputs
Book
[Chapter]Authored by: Ellis, L., Napan, K., O'Donoghue, K.
[Chapter]Authored by: Ellis, L., Napan, K., O'Donoghue, K.