Dr Karen Crinall
Lecturer in Social and Community Welfare
Karen is course coordinator for the Master of Human Services Management and a deputy head of the school. Prior to teaching at Monash, Karen was employed in the human services field as a women's refuge and youth worker, and manager of a crisis accommodation centre. Karen studied fine art at Caulfield Institute of Technology prior to completing a Master of Education at Deakin University in 1994. Karen was awarded a PhD by the University of Western Sydney in 2004 for her thesis titled Imag(in)ing Women as Homeless: Re/tracing socially concerned photography.
Classes taught by Karen include:
- Human Services Management and Practice
- Social Issues and Personal Values
- Paradigms of Practice
- Program Planning and Evaluation
- Research Methods for the Human Services
Karen is a Chief Investigator on an ARC Linkage Grant awarded in May 2007 with the University of Melbourne, Victoria Police, Department of Human Services, Department of Victorian Communities and the Department of Justice, titled Family Violence Reform: Using knowledge to Develop and Integrate Policy and Practice.
Research Interests / Publications
Karen's research interests are interdisciplinary, encompassing visual culture, visual sociology and the social sciences. Her social documentary photographs and photo-essays have been published locally and internationally. Karen regularly presents at national and international conferences, and publishes on the topics of social documentary photography and the visual representation of women, family violence and homelessness.
Karen regularly undertakes consultancy work for the Department of Human Services, Gippsland and is currently engaged in the inaugural project of the research partnership between the Department of Human Services, Gippsland and Monash University, Gippsland: The Evaluation of the Structured Approach to Student's at Risk: Pilot project.
| Recent publications: | |
| 2007 | Madonnas in need: Picturing divinity in destitution The International Journal of the Arts in Society :1 (5) |
| 2007 | Looking into the outside: The windows of Bertinoro Contexts . 6 (2).:52-58 (photo-essay) |
| 2006 |
Judging a book by its cover: some reflexions on the portrayal of betrayalPractice Reflexions . Nov 2006. 1 (1). pp: 39-51 |
| 2006 | Destitute Discourses: the art of orchestrating fear and fantasy in photographs of homeless people Arena Journal . 2006. 27. pp: 61-80 |
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2006 |
Governing Inequality: Poverty before the Australian Welfare State in Serr, K (ed) Thinking about Poverty , and Sydney: Federation Press. |
Book chapters
Crinall, Karen (2006) Governing Inequality: Poverty before the Australian Welfare State in Serr, K (ed) Thinking about Poverty , Federation Press, Sydney.
Journal articles
Crinall, Karen (2007) Madonnas in need: Picturing divinity in destitutionThe International Journal of the Arts in Society :1 (5)
Crinall, Karen (2007) Looking into the outside: The windows of BertinoroContexts . 6 (2):52-58 (photo-essay)
Crinall, Karen (2006) Judging a book by its cover: some reflexions on the portrayal of betrayal Practice Reflexions . Nov 2006. 1 (1). pp: 39-51
Journals edited annually
Crinall, K., Laming, C., Lynn , M., Practice Reflexions, the Journal of the Australian Institute of Welfare and Community Workers (AIWCW).
Contact Details
- Phone:
- 03 9902 6331 or 5122 6331
- Fax:
- 03 9902 6359 or 5122 6359
- Office:
- 1E125
- Email:
- Karen.Crinall@arts.monash.edu.au
- Address:
- School of Humanities, Communications & Social
Sciences
Monash University, Gippsland Campus
Northways Road,
Churchill, Victoria 3842