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Neil Barber

Lecturer
BA (Com.Soc.Serv.) RMIHE, M.Child and Adol’.Welf’. CSU

Neil Barber Neil Barber
Charles Sturt University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Room 116, Building 26
Wagga Wagga Campus NSW 2678 Australia
Ph:(02) 6933 2774
Fax:(02) 6933 2792
Bio

I graduated from Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education in 1987 and later completed my Masters degree in Child and Adolescent Welfare at CSU in 1999.

I am currently undertaking professional doctoral studies through the Faculty of Science, School of Nursing and Midwifery at CSU, exploring vulnerability among young people in rural Australia. I am a key researcher and member of the management executive of the CSU Centre for Inland Health.

I am originally from Wagga Wagga and have worked in rural Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales in child, youth and family health and welfare roles, including direct prractice, management and policy and planning roles. My community affiliations include consultant to Riverina headspace, Board membership of Campus Pre-schools, Parent education consultant to Shaw Street Children’s Services Centre (daycare). I am a past chairman of Wagga Youth Refuge Committee.

My partner and I share the care of 4 children and a labrador and Siamese Fighting Fish. My other interests include cooking and consuming, reading and writing, music and lots of other stuff including geography, astronomy and communication technologies. My sporting passion is membership of the South Sydney Rabbitohs Rugby League Member Company, but I try to maintain my life long affinity for water sports.

Teaching

Under graduate degree programs;

Post graduate coursework programs;

Research
Research projects
Recent publications

Barber, N (2009) (in Press) Child Abuse: A Guide for Australian General Practice, RDGP/Confluence Media. DVD

Alston M, Barber N, Mlcek S, & Whitney-Soanes K, (2008) Rural beginnings Evaluation of the Kurrajong Early Intervention Service/Department of Families and Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Stronger Families and Communities Invest to Grow Strategy project 2004-2008. Institute for Land, Water and Society, CSU.

Barber, N (2006) Child Abuse: A Child Protection Resource for Health Professionals in Private General Practice, RDGP/AGPN. CD

Barber, N. & Mlcek, S. (2005) Using the ‘nesting dolls’ analogy to reconceptualise communication for sustainability in the human services industry, in J. Searle, F. Beven and D. Roebuck, eds., Vocational Learning: Transitions, Interrelationships, Partnerships and Sustainable Futures, Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Post-compulsory Education and Training, Australian Academic Press, Brisbane.

Barber, N (2005) Risking optimism: practioner interpretations of strengths based practice in statutory child protection work, in Child Abuse Prevention Newsletter Vol. 13. No. 2 pp 10 -15. Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies

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