Dr Olga Bursian
Lecturer, Social and Community Welfare
Olga Bursian has social work undergraduate and post graduate qualifications. Her career spanned direct service, social policy development, research and advocacy, management, community development and cross cultural training. Experience in working with Commonwealth and State government departments (Department of Social Security Darwin; Department of Human Services managing statewide programs), research institutes (Brotherhood of St Laurence Social Policy & Research Centre), community based agencies (Migrant Resource Centre) as well as teaching social work at RMIT, prior to her current position at Monash. She teaches the history of the welfare state in SCW 1302 Governing Inequality, SCW 2312 Welfare Law, Rights and Ethics and SCW 2310 Social Policy.
Research Interests / Publications
Her Master of Social Work policy analysis thesis was The Formation of the Youth Guarantee, a Victorian Cain Labor Government education, employment and training initiative for young people . Her Phd Uncovering the Agency of Migrant Women: Connecting with Australian Public Infrastructure was based on 30 in-depth interviews with women from 5 non-Western regions of the world. Exploring women's capacities to creatively rebuild life included tracing the influence of public services and policies available on the basis of citizenship rights over the research period of 1976-1999.
Research interests include multiculturalism and social cohesion, comparative welfare state regimes, labour market issues, governance and policies for democratic citizenship, youth and labour markets, post-colonial theory; feminist standpoint theory, subjugated knowledges, cross cultural epistemology and ontology, community development, decolonising research methods.
Publications:
Bursian O 2005, Diverse Worlds. Diverse Childhoods, International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, proceedings from The Diversity Conference UCLA 6-9 July 2004, Vol 4, pp 287-297.
Bursian, O 2002, Impact of the Job Network on Long Term Unemployed Young People, submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into the Job Network , (www.pc.gov.au/inquiry/jobnetwork/subs/subdr078.pdf.)
Bursian, O 1995, Economic Liberalism and the Community Services Industry,Just Policy , No 3, June, pp 3-10.
Bursian, O 1992, Policy on Volunteer Training, Social & Community Services Industry Training Board, Melbourne .
Bursian, O 1992, Competency-Based Training: The SACS ITB Policy, Social & Community Services Industry Training Board, Melbourne .
Carter J, Burston O, Floyd, F & Stewart, J 1988, Mandatory Reporting and Child Abuse , Brotherhood of St Laurence, Melbourne.
Trethewey, J & Burston, O 1988, Changing Entitlements for the Young Unemployed, Brotherhood of St Laurence, Melbourne .
Conference Papers
Bursian, O 2007, Australian Multiculturalism: Policy & Practice Insights for the EU, paper presented at the New Europe, New Governance, New Worlds? Conferences 12-14 April, Monash University European & EU Centre.
Bursian, O 2005, Subverting Colonial Misrepresentations: Implications for Social Theory & Citizenship, paper presented at The International Symposium on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations: Diversity, Women & Human Rights, RMIT, Melbourne , 7-8 December.
Bursian, O 2005, Critical Hermeneutics & Cross Cultural Insights: Implications for Professional Education, paper presented at The 12 th International Learning Conference, Granada , 11-14 July.
Bursian O 2005, Diverse Worlds. Diverse Childhoods, presented at The Diversity Conference UCLA 6-9 July 2004, virtual presentation.International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, Vol 4, pp 287-297.
Bursian O 2002, Uncovering Migrant Women's Capacity to Act during Settlement in Australia : Drawing on Theories of Subjectivity, Multicultural Citizenship & Globalisation Conference, Deakin University , 4-8 December, Melbourne .
Bursian, O 1999, Experience of CALD people with the Jobs Network, paper presented at The Workplace Studies Centre Victoria University & National Key Centre for Industrial Relations Monash University 's National Conference on Migrants and Labour Market Deregulation: A Critical Perspective, 14-15 October, Melbourne
Bursian, O 1996, Citizenship, Multiculturalism and NESB Women, paper presented at the 1996 Victorian Council of Social Services Conference, Melbourne.
Bursian, O 1994, Impact of Full fees on Post Graduate Courses for the Community Services, Australian Association of Social Work and Welfare Educators 1994 Conference, Perth, September.
Contact Details
- Phone:
- 03 9902 6330 or 5122 6330
- Fax:
- 03 9902 6359 or 5122 6359
- Office:
- 1E124
- Email:
- Olga.Bursian@arts.monash.edu.au
- Address:
- School of Humanities, Communications & Social
Sciences
Monash University, Gippsland Campus
Northways Road,
Churchill, Victoria 3842