Catherine Flynn

Lecturer

Coordinator, Honours Program

Profile:

Catherine Flynn, BSW (Honours)(Monash), Grad Cert Psychotherapeutic Studies (Queens University, Belfast), Practice Teaching Award (General Social Care Council, Northern Ireland), completed her honours thesis in 1990 about the Social Work role expectations of women addicted to minor tranquilizers. Ms Flynn worked in direct practice for ten years sharing her time between Australia and Northern Ireland. She worked initially in Melbourne, engaged in casework with young people in contact with the juvenile justice system and later with homeless women and children. She later worked in schools in an innovative outdoor education program with high risk young people in rural County Fermangh and later in schools in North Belfast, providing individual intervention and group work to children. In recent years, Ms Flynn has been actively engaged in a range of research projects: examining women's access to welfare services after prison in Victoria, evaluating a community support program for high risk infants. As well as investigating the factors which support students from diverse background to succeed in higher education. She is completing her doctoral studies examining the impact of maternal incarceration on adolescent children. Ms Flynn currently lectures in the undergraduate program, teaching Social Work research methods and coordinating the Honours program.