About the Journal
Social Work & Policy Studies: Social Justice, Practice and Theory (ISSN 2209-0878) aims to provide a platform for those advancing knowledge and debate on any aspect of social justice-informed social work, social policy, practice or theory.
With a goal of publishing yearly, the journal welcomes submissions that explore questions of: social injustice; inequity; systemic and/or individual oppression; the power dynamics of social relations such as race, class, gender, disability, sexuality, Indigeneity, age, region, political economy; questions engaging with intersectionality and multiple oppressions; and various forms of resistance, social change, social policy and social justice initiatives.
An online, open access social work and social policy journal published by Social Work and Policy Studies, University of Sydney through the University of Sydney Library. Please register to be informed when submissions are open or a new issue is published.
Current Issue
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2025): 2025 Student Edition
This edition continues our support of new researchers, advocates and scholars. In this edition, student papers from Australia, Canada and Mongolia explore local and global social justice issues. We have been overwhelmed by the breadth and depth of this exploration which ranges from the impact of climate change to prisons to loss and grief. We hope these papers add to student learning and social work curricula.
A number of these papers have also been co-authored by students and more established academics. We would like to acknowledge this mentorship as an important contribution to the future of social justice scholarship internationally.
Our thanks to all the students and academics who have supported this edition. We hope you are as excited as we are about seeing this work in published form.
Margot & Donna
Published:
2025-09-25
Undergraduate and Post graduate Student papers
Editors
Margot Rawsthorne, University of Sydney, Australia
Donna Baines, University of British Columbia, Canada
Editorial Board
Malcolm Carey, University of Chester, UK
Bonnie Freeman, McMaster University, Canada
Paul Michael Garrett, NUI Galway, Republic of Ireland
Jude Irwin (Emeritus), University of Sydney, Australia
Mary Mitchell, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Lindsey Napier (Emeritus), University of Sydney, Australia
Alankaar Sharma, Australian Catholic University, Australia
Frank Wang, National Chen Chi University, Taiwan
