School of Humanities and Social Science
HCSF people
Professor Margaret Alston
Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
Social Work
Expertise: climate change; environmental disaster; gender; rural women; social sustainability; violence against women
- Margaret.Alston@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 6702
Dr David Betts
Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Social Work
Expertise: gerontology; sexual and gender minorities; social work
- David.Betts@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 492 15782
Dr Tamara Blakemore
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Social Work
Expertise: child sexual abuse, family disadvantage, resilience
- Tamara.Blakemore@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 2085
Associate Professor Penny Buykx
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
Social Work
Expertise: access to treatment; alcohol and substance abuse; public health policy; rural health
- Penny.Buykx@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 7786
Dr Traci Flynn
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Speech Pathology
Expertise: hearing impairment; language; rehabilitation
- Traci.Flynn@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 49138775
Associate Professor Wendy Foote
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
Social Work
Expertise: welfare practice, policy and regulations; vulnerable child and family health; child protection; kinship care
- Wendy.Foote@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 40553041
Emeritus Professor Mel Gray
Emeritus Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
Social Work
Expertise: Australian human services; evidence-based practice; Indigenous social work; knowledge production; knowledge translation; morals, values and ethics; neoliberalism; social development; social policy; social work; social work ethics; social work and art; social work theory & philosophy; theory and philosophy of social work; welfare reform.
Associate Professor Mark Harvey
Conjoint Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
Linguistics
Expertise: language description and documentation, focussing on indigenous Australian languages; phonology; morphology; complex predicates.
- Mark.Harvey@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4348 4050
Associate Professor Sally Hewat
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
Speech Pathology
Expertise: clinical education, evidence-based practice, stuttering, International engagement
- Sally.Hewat@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5159
Associate Professor Kiwako Ito
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
Linguistics
Expertise: eye tracking for studying language processing; language acquisition; psycholinguistics; speech signal processing.
- Kiwako.Ito@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 6109
Dr Alan Libert
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Linguistics
Expertise: Turkic languages; artificial languages; adpositions; onomastics.
- Alan.Libert@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5117
Dr Catriona Malau
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Linguistics
Expertise: Language description and documentation; Oceanic languages of the Pacific, focussing on Vanuatu.
- Catriona.Malau@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 6687
Dr Christo Moskovsky
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Linguistics
Expertise: Second language acquisition; bilingualism.
- Christo.Moskovsky@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5163
Associate Professor Bill Palmer
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
Linguistics
Expertise: language description and documentation; Oceanic languages of Pacific, focussing on Bougainville and Solomon Islands; syntax.
- Bill.Palmer@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5157
Mr Phillip Pallas
Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Social Work
Expertise: communication skills; community development; remote social work; indigenous knowledge
- Phillip.Pallas@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5396
Mrs Julie Steffner
Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Social Work
Expertise: child and family services with non-government organizations; out-of-home child care; regional family resilience strategy
Dr Joanne Steel
Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Speech Pathology
Expertise: adult neurogenic communication disability; cognitive communication; discourse analysis; social communication; traumatic brain injury
- JOANNE.STEEL@NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
- +61 2 40553011
Dr Liz Spencer
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Speech Pathology
Expertise: clinical linguistics, discourse analysis, language and ageing, paediatric language
- Liz.Spencer@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5161
Dr Rachael Unicomb
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Speech Pathology
Expertise: blended learning; clinical education; clinical skills; evidence-based practice; fluency; paediatric language; paediatric speech sound disorders; stuttering
- Rachael.Unicomb@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5716
Ms Joanne Walters
Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Speech Pathology
Expertise: clinical education; clinical skills; evidence-based practice; inter professional learning (IPL); paediatric language; paediatric speech and sound disorders; simulation; work-integrated learning
- Joanne.Walters@newcastle.edu.au
- 02 49217350
Dr Gwendalyn Webb
Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Speech Pathology
Expertise: Australian Aboriginal peoples; disability; early childhood; intercultural communication
- Gwendalyn.Webb@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 49215694
School contacts
School Executives
- Mr Owen Jackson
Executive Officer - Mrs Sandra Heiner
Executive Officer Ourimbah Academic Support Unit
General enquiries
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School administration enquiries
Humanities-SocialScience@newcastle.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 4921 5155
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