Emily KeddellEmily Keddell

Lecturer in Social Work

Contact

Room 109, 280 Leith Walk
Phone 479 5867
Email emily.keddell@.otago.ac.nz

Academic Qualifications

  • MCApSc (Otago)

Teaching

Interpersonal Practice (SOWK315 SOWX 315, SOWK401 SOWX 401)

Research Interests

My research interests include:

  • knowledge production and theory in interpersonal social work, in particular child protection social work practice with children and families;
  • the construction of ethnic identities and their interrelationship with the sociopolitical context;
  • social policy as it affects children and families;
  • culturally responsive practice approaches; and
  • the use of the arts in social work education.  

I also have an interest in service evaluation, in particular, user views of services.

Select Publications

Keddell, E. (2011, in press) Making connections between art and life: a constructionist approach to the use of arts-based materials in social work education. Journal of Teaching in Social Work.

Keddell, E. (2011, in press) Going home: managing 'risk' through relationship in returning children from foster care to their families of origin. Qualitative Social Work.

Keddell, E. (2011, in press) Reasoning processes in child protection decision-making: negotiating moral minefields and risky relationships. British Journal of Social Work.

Keddell, E. (2009) Narrative as identity: postmodernism, multiple ethnicities and narrative practice approaches in social work. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 18 (3): 1 - 21.

Keddell, E. (2007) Cultural identity and the Children, Young Person’s and Their Families Act 1989: Ideology, policy and practice. New Zealand Journal of Social Policy, 32, pp 49-71.

Keddell, E. (2006) Pavlova and pineapple pie: Selected identity influences on Samoan/Pakeha people in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, (1) 45 – 63.

Conference presentations

Keddell, E. (2010) "Joint action: constituting identities between the survey and the person." Inter-disciplinary Workshop on Ethnic Identity, Identification and Change,Victoria Institute of Policy Studies/ Population Studies Centre Waikato University, Wellington, March 31.

Keddell, E. (2009) "Child protection decision-making: negotiating meanings and outcomes." Conference presentation, Asia-Pacific Social Work Conference, Auckland, Nov 10 – 13, 2009.

Keddell, E. (2009) "Relationship-building as prevention: helpful constructions of meaning in the child protection decision-making process." Conference presentation, Asia- Pacific Regional Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Perth, Nov 15 – 18.

Keddell, E. (2006) "Patterns of Resistance: Changing Definitions of Ethnicity in Aotearoa/New Zealand", Conference presentation, Re-Assemblage Cultural Transformations Research Network 5th Annual Symposium, University of Otago.

Research Seminars

Keddell, E. (2010) "Bernstein's codes in child protection social work: discourse, power and relationships." Department of Social and Community Work, University of Otago, November 25.

Keddell, E., Vakaoti, P. (2010) "Violence as a community issue: policy and practice towards reduction and prevention", October 15, Otago House, Auckland. (workshop facilitators).

Keddell, E. (2009) "Multiple ethnicity as identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand: politics, categories and resistance." Research Seminar for Centre for Research on National Identity, University of Otago, September 24.

Keddell, E. (2009) "Move over 'risk': making space for safety in child protection social work." Research Seminar at the College of Social Work, University of Utah, December 1.

Research reports

Keddell, E. (2010) "Decision- Making and Judgment in Child Protection Social Work." Research Report prepared for: Open Home Foundation NZ.

Keddell. E. (2009) "Decision-making in social work research project." Interim Report and Discussion Document for: Open Home Foundation.

 

University of Otago Department of Social Work and Community Development