Biography and expertise

Biography

Since 2015, Meaghan has worked at Southern Cross University conducting participatory, co-designed research to affect systemic and practice change, and teaching in the Masters of Social Work and Bachelor of Community Welfare. Meaghan has over twenty years’ experience in community work with children, young people, families and communities including LGBTQ people, people experiencing homelessness and poverty, people living with mental health issues and disability and the human services sector. Her community work and research aim to collaborate with people with lived experience and community organisations to build capacity for social justice, belonging, inclusion and equity in communities experiencing multiple intersecting forms of disadvantage, marginalisation and exclusion.

Meaghan's work contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals

Source: Scopus

Research

Meaghan is Research Fellow with the Co-creating rainbow-inclusive care for gender and sexually diverse people in residential aged care research project (2024-2029), led by Professor Mark Hughes. The project will collaborate with LGBTQ+ people, residential aged care providers and staff to design, implement and evaluate an inclusive model of residential aged care for LGBTQ+ people. Meaghan also works for the Centre for Children and Young People, collaborating on projects that amplify children’s rights and participation in decisions that affect their safety and wellbeing.

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Honours

Australian Research Council PhD scholarship recipient (DP180100465)
Southern Cross University, 2019
Dean's Medal for Academic Excellence
Western Sydney University, August 2003

Organisational affiliations

Social Work, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University

Teaching Associate, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University

Research Assistant, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University

Research Fellow, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University

Past affiliations

Casual Academic Teaching, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Southern Cross University

PhD Candidate, Centre for Children and Young People, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University

Research Fellow, Centre for Children and Young People, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University

Research Officer, Faculty of Business, Law and Arts, Southern Cross University

Research Officer, Centre for Excellence in Therapeutic Care

General Committee Member, Australian & New Zealand Social Work & Welfare Education & Research

Education

PhD
20172022, Doctor of Philosophy, Southern Cross University

Participation is not enough: the practices associated with giving due weight ot the views of children and young people in out-of-home care policy making in Australia. Supervised by Professor Mark Hughes and Professor Anne Graham.

Journalism
2008, Master of Arts (Journalism), University of Technology Sydney
Social ecology
2003, Bachelor of Applied Science (Social Ecology), University of Western Sydney