Ms Amy Cleland

Aboriginal Strategy and Engagement Lead UniSA Justice & Society

City West Campus (LB1-21)
tel +61 8 830 22545

email Amy.Cleland@unisa.edu.au

Available for media comment
Research Degree Supervisor

Research

Research focus

Aboriginal Children and Families
Cultural Competence
Medical and Health Sciences
Social Work

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Books

Year	Output
2022	Zufferey, C, Horsell, C, Burgess, K, Cleland, A, Goel, K & Tedmanson, D 2022, The complexities of home in social work, Routledge, UK. 1

Chapters

Year	Output
2023	Cleland, A & Zufferey, C 2023, 'Yarning about yarning: a potential strategy to deconstruct whiteness', in Jioji Ravulo et al. (eds), Handbook of Critical Whiteness, Springer, Singapore, pp. 1-13. Open access
2015	Cleland, A 2015, 'Maybe it is rocket science!: still questioning what's needed in preparing human service practitioners to work effectively with Indigenous Australian people', in C Fejo-King & J Poona (eds), Emerging from the margins: first Australian' perspectives of social work, Magpie Goose Publishing, Australia, ch. 2, pp. 37-55.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2025	Zagler, J, Yu, N & Cleland, A 2025, '"The system allows for it to happen": the experiences of human service workers in engaging with Aboriginal participants of the National Disability Insurance Scheme', Disability and Rehabilitation, vol. 47, no. 8, pp. 2017-2025. Open access
2020	Cleland, A & Masocha, S 2020, 'Centring Aboriginal epistemologies: development of a 3D simulation for social work education', Advances in Social Work and Welfare Education, vol. 21, no.2, pp. 8-21. Open access
2010	Cleland, AE-J 2010, 'Cultural competency development : responding to resistance in preparing human service graduates to work effectively with Indigenous Australian people', Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 72-83.

Conferences

Year	Output
2012	Cleland, A, Fredericks, B & Watson, I 2012, 'Cultural competence in Indigenous Australian social work: what's needed in preparing human service practitioners to work effectively with Indigenous Australian people', 5th biennial International Indigenous Development Research Conference 2012, Ngā̄ Pae o te Māramatanga, pp. 115-121. Open access

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Central Queensland University	AUSTRALIA
Private Individual	UNITED KINGDOM
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA

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Ms Amy Cleland

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