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Dr Lynsey Ellis

Senior Professional Clinician in Social Work

School of Social Work

Research interests include field education, environmental and sustainable social work.  

Twitter: SocialClimateNZ

Dr Ellis is a registered social worker, her professional background spans homeless and transient populations, social services management, forensic mental health and addictions. Her experience extends to twenty years of practice before teaching social work at Massey University from 2010. Dr Ellis is the Field Education Team coordinator for the school of social work coordinatong placements for Auckland and Northland regions. She completed her PhD Social Work in November 2020 on Sustainable social work: researching the impacts of climate change on social work education and practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. She lives with her husband and two children  North Auckland. 

 

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Contact details

  • Ph: +649 213 6349
    Location: College of Health, Sir Neil Walter Ext
    Campus: Albany

Research Expertise

Research Interests

Lynsey completed her PhD Social Work (2020) her title and objectives are: "Sustainable social work: a response to the impacts of climate emergency from social work education and practice in Aotearoa, New Zealand".

Overall research aims:

  • To communicate the impacts of climate change to the social work community.
  • To encourage an awareness and reflection of how these impacts will affect service users of social work in New Zealand.
  • To work with the social work students, educators and practitioners using the cycles of action research, to make sense of the impacts of climate change and translate their meaning for the New Zealand social work practice context.
  • To encourage social workers to develop their practice using a sustainable approach.
  • To identify future training needs for social workers on sustainability and climate change impacts.

 

Thematics

Health and Well-being

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Clinical Social Work Practice (160701): Social Program Evaluation (160703): Social Work (160700): Social Work not elsewhere classified (160799): Studies In Human Society (160000)

Keywords

Sustainable Social Work 

Research Outputs

Book

Ellis, LM., Napan, K., & O'Donoghue, KB. (2018). Greening social work education in Aotearoa/New Zealand. In L. Dominelli (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work. (pp. 535 - 546). London, United Kingdom: Routledge
[Chapter]Authored by: Ellis, L., Napan, K., O'Donoghue, K.
Ellis, LM., Napan, K., & O'Donoghue, K. (2018). Greening social work education in Aotearoa/New Zealand. In The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work. (pp. 535 - 546).
[Chapter]Authored by: Ellis, L., Napan, K., O'Donoghue, K.