Dr Uschi Bay

Lecturer

uschi.bay@med.monash.edu.au

Telephone: +61 3 9903 1130

Facsimile: +61 9903 1141

Profile

Dr Uschi Bay, BSW (University of Melbourne), MSW (University of Melbourne), PhD (RMIT University) is a Lecturer in the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Medicine at Monash University. Prior to her appointment she was an academic at Deakin University and Southern Cross University in Northern New South Wales focusing on curriculum development in the areas of counselling, social welfare and community development. She has also worker in senior management in higher education in the equity policy and student welfare areas. She has a specific research interest in social work's role in ecological,economic and social sustainability of communities, community development and social policy analysis. She has undertaken research with the Desert Knowledge Co-operative Research Centre in Alice Springs on desert settlement sustainability and on coastal settlement sustainability at Deakin University. She is currently working on a project that investigates the role of rural women's craft activities in their social, ecological and economic well-being.