President- Asian and Pacific Association for Social Work Education (APASWE)

Position: Vice-President-IASSW

Name: David Rose

Email: drose@unimelb.edu.au

Position within Board of Directors and Terms of Serving: APASWE President representing Asia & Pacific region

Affiliation and Position (other than IASSW):

Associate Professor in Social Work – The University of Melbourne, Australia.

President- Asian and Pacific Association for Social Work Education (APASWE)

Membership of organisations (other than IASSW):

Asian and Pacific Association for Social Work Education (APASWE)

Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)

Educational Qualification/s: (Degrees):

Bachelor of Arts; Bachelor of Social Work; Master of Social Work, Master of Assessment & Evaluation, PhD

Languages written and spoken: English

Interest Areas (social work teaching, research and practice): Broad interest in social work education and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Other areas of research interest include the impact of drug using in families, offender support and transition programs, trauma and post-traumatic growth, children and families across borders in the international context, family violence, collective impact and the role of program design and evaluation in human service contexts.

Current Activities (social work teaching, research, practice, others): Director of Learning and Teaching for the Department of Social Work and the School of Health Sciences at University of Melbourne with broad role to support and develop teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Teaches into the MSW in the areas of legal and ethical context of practice, mental health, human service program design and evaluation and supervises several PhD graduate students.