Sandra Croaker
Social Work & Human Services
Areas of research & interest:
- Agriculture & food
- Behaviour change
- Built environment
- Circular economy
- Climate change
- Communications
- Communities & society
- Education
- First Peoples
- Health
- Land use & planning
- Policy & regulation
- Social issues
- Sustainability
- Transport
- Workforce & training
- Agriculture & environment
- Communities in transition
- First Nations
- Industry & business solutions
- Nature based solutions
- Policy & regulation
- Technology solutions
- Transport
- Land Use & Regional Planning
BIO
Sandra Croaker is an Associate Lecturer in Social Work Field Education located at the Townsville JCU campus. Her role sees her working closely with students in preparation and planning for placement, bridging the space between academic education and practice learning. Sandra also works closely with social services providers in the Townsville region to continuously explore and grow new placement learning opportunities for students. Her experience in this role combined with her aim of creating interesting and engaging learning environments that are mutually beneficial for the agency as well as the student’s learning experience is nowadays informing her research interest. As a PhD candidate, her current research focuses on social work graduates' readiness for eco-social work practice. This work is informed by Heather Boetto's model for eco-social work and Lena Dominelli's concept of 'green social work'.
