CQSW PhD (Brist) CertWSt (Open)
Contact details
Room 6C17, Richardson Building
Tel +64 3 479 5677
Email anita.gibbs@otago.ac.nz
Anita trained as a social worker in the UK and worked in criminal justice, notably probation.
She completed her PhD at the University of Bristol and after postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford she moved to Otago in 1999.
She has taught numerous social work, sociology and criminology courses since with a particular interest in teaching in the area of families. Her research studies have included electronic monitoring, mental health, adoption, transcultural parenting, defining social work research, making social work accessible to sociologists, auto-ethnography, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and its impact on families, and the scholarship of publication.
Anita is a registered social worker and facilitates a parent support group for families where FASD is an issue.
Teaching
I co-ordinate and teach:
Postgraduate supervision
- Adoption
- Fostering
- FASD (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder)
- Qualitative Research
- Social Work Research
- Family Welfare and Policy
- Hidden/Invisible Disabilities
Current and recent students
Penelope Kinney (PhD)
Transitions from hospital to community with a regional forensic service
Suzi Wereta (PhD)
Exploration of youth suicide among Māori
Harriet Toa (Honours)
Parental capacity of parents with intellectual disability
Angela Jackson (Honours)
Achieving permanence through Home for Life
Amanda Kennedy (Honours)
Promising Interventions for Mothers and Children with Maternal Problematic Substance Misuse