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Teaching Areas
Social work education and professional development, continuing education, professional supervision, the sociology of social work, social work and the risk society, practitioner research in social work, the history and development of social work in health care. A major current project is the development of a new postgraduate pathway for health social work.
Research interests
Social work continuing education, professional supervision in health and social care, the professionalization project, learning discourses in social work, interprofessional learning, practitioner research, the development of social work in heath care in New Zealand. A major project for Liz is a collaborative programme with colleagues Christa Fouché and Phil Harington: Growing Research in Practice (GRIP).
Professional links
Liz has a long-standing commitment to the education and professional development of social workers. Liz was a founding member of the Social Workers Registration Board, appointed in 2003, and chaired the Board’s Education and Practice Standards Committee until June 2006. Liz is a past vice-president of the ANZASW and was the Executive Officer from 1990-96. She was awarded Association life membership in 1990.
Liz edited Social Work Review for ten years until 1994 and guest edited a special issue of Social Work Review, on the topic of issues in social work education, published as Volume 18(4) Summer 2006. She has published articles on social work education, supervision and professional issues in journals in New Zealand and overseas. She is a member of the Editorial Boards for Social Work Education, Australian Social Work and Health Sociology Review and is a reviewer for a number of professional journals.
Previous professional experience
Liz worked for the former Auckland District Health Board for 12 years, mainly in the areas of general and women’s health. She worked as a consultant and trainer until she was appointed director of social work education at the Auckland College of Education in 1994. She was head of social work and human services programme in the university from 2005 and took up her current role as head of the school of Counselling, Human Services and Social Work in January 2008.
Selected recent publications
Beddoe, L. (in press). Creating Continuous Conversation: Social Work and learning organisations. Social Work Education.
Beddoe, L., & Maidment, J. (in press). Mapping Knowledge for Social Work Practice: Critical Intersections, Melbourne: Cengage.
Davys, A., & Beddoe, L. (in press). Interprofessional learning for supervision: ‘Taking the blinkers off’. Learning in Health and Social Care.
Beddoe, L., & Egan, R. (2009). Social Work Supervision. In M. Connolly & L. Harms (Eds.), Social Work: Contexts and Practice (2nd ed., pp. 410-422). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
Beddoe, L., & Davys, A. (2008). Revitalizing supervision education through stories of confirmation and difference: The case for interprofessional learning. Social Work Now, 40, 34-41
Beddoe, L. (2007). Change, complexity and challenge in social work education in Aotearoa New Zealand. Australian Social Work, 60(1), 46-55.
Beddoe, L., Fouché, C., Harington, P., Light, G., Lunt, N., & Yates, D. (2007). Growing research in practice: the story so far. Social Work Review, 39-50.
Beddoe, L. (2007). Writing and dissemination. In C. Fouché, N. Lunt & D. Yates (Eds.), Growing research in practice: A collection of resources (pp. 57-68). Auckland: Massey University
Beddoe, L., & Harington, P. (2007). Getting started. In C. Fouché, N. Lunt & D. Yates (Eds.), Growing research in practice: A collection of resources (pp. 5-16). Auckland: Massey University
Beddoe, L. (2006). Registration and continuing education for social work in New Zealand - what about the workers? Social Work Review, 18(4), 100-111.
Beddoe, L., & Henrickson, M. (2005). Continuing Professional Social Work Education in Aotearoa New Zealand. Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development, 15(2), 75-90.
Edited Conference Proceedings
Beddoe, L., & Jesson, J. G. (Eds.). (2006). Continuing Professional Education: Out of Bounds and Borders: Proceedings of the Continuing Professional Education Conference, Auckland 19-20 April 2006. Auckland: Faculty of Education, University of Auckland.
Haigh, M., Beddoe, E., & Rose, D. (Eds.). (2006). Towards excellence in PEPE: A collaborative endeavour: Proceedings of the Practical Experiences in Professional Education Conference. Auckland, N.Z.: University of Auckland, Faculty of Education.
Beddoe, L., Worrall, J., & Howard, F. (Eds.). (2005). Weaving together the strands of supervision: 2004 conference proceedings. Auckland: Faculty of Education, University of Auckland.
Beddoe, L., & Worrall, J. (2001). Supervision: From rhetoric to reality - Conference Proceedings. Paper presented at the Supervision: From rhetoric to reality. 7-8 July 2000, Auckland, New Zealand.
University Committees
- University of Auckland Academic Programmes and Regulations Committee
- Faculty of Education Academic Programmes Committee
- Faculty of Education Management Committee
- Faculty of Education Marketing and Recruitment Committee
- Faculty of Education Postgraduate Committee
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Faculty of Education Teaching and Learning Committee
