Dr Fran Gale

Dr Fran Gale

Lecturer, Community and Social Work

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• Biography
• Areas of expertise
• Awards / Honours
• Grants / Current projects
• Selected publications
• Community Outreach and Media Activities  

Biography

Disciplines: Political Science and Social Work
 
Lecturer in Social Work, School of  Social Sciences, and Fellow, Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre, University of Western Sydney  (teaching in the areas of Theory and Critique of Practice; Ideologies of Practice in Social Work; Adolescent Health and Development and Social Policy).  From 1997- 1994 Associate Lecturer in Government (fractional) Sydney University, teaching units in Australian Politics, Political Theory, Comparative Politics and Political Sociology. Recent and current research and practice includes youth and community development work in East Timor after the independence referendum; work with remote indigenous Australian young people and work with young asylum seekers in Australian Immigration Detention Centres as well as in the community.

Qualifications
BSW (NSW);  PhD (U Syd)

Areas of Expertise

Critical socio-political theories and practices; social citizenship and civic connectedness of marginalised groups (one focus of which is research and work with marginalised young people, often from diverse and traumatised populations); social advocacy; spirituality and social justice; human rights.

Awards / Honours

‘Psychiatrists as a Moral Community? Psychiatry Under the Nazis and its Contemporary Relevance’,(with Michael Dudley), published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Vol 36, No. 5, October, pp585-595, was selected by an international panel from Zurich, London, Washington, Athens and Oxford as one the ‘top’ publications for 2002 in the field of Psychiatry in Australia. See website blackwell-science.com -Australian Postgraduate Research Award, University of Sydney, 1994-1997 - Eddy Memorial Scholarship.

Grants / Current Projects

2005 ARC Industry Linkage Grant. Chief Investigators: Natalie Bolzan and Fran Gale. Project title:  ‘Community Foundations of Resilience of Young People’. 

2003 UWS Regional Grants Scheme. Chief Investigators: Fran Gale and Natalie Bolzan. Project title: ‘Young People, Social Capital and Suicide Prevention’.

2002 Trans-cultural Mental Health Centre Grant.  Chief Investigators: Fran Gale, Michael Dudley and Natalie Bolzan. Project title: ‘The Mental Health of Youth Asylum Seekers’.

Selected Publications

Articles in international refereed journals
Gale, F., and Bolzan, N. ‘Young People, Social Capital and Mental Health’, Communities, Children and Families Australia, July, 2008.

Gale, F., and Bolzan, N. ‘Women, Spirituality and Social Justice in an Age of Economic Rationalism’, Women in Welfare Education, No 8, November, 2006.

Bolzan, N., Gale, F. and Skelton, L. ‘Young People’s Voices as Oppositional Narratives’  Scottish Journal of Youth Issues, No 8, Summer, pp11-26, 2004.

Bolzan, N., Gale, F. and Dudley, M. ‘Time To Father’, Journal of Social Work in Health Care, Vol 39, Issue 2, pp 67-88, 2004 (re-printed see above in ‘Books’).  

Rankin, G. and Gale, F. ‘Keep Them In the Dark’ Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: Journal of Socialist Ecology, Vol.14, No.2, September  51-59, 2003.

Gale, F., and Rankin, G. ‘To Know or Not to Know: Psychic Numbing and Australia's New Nuclear Reactor’, Network (Journal of the Australian Psychological Society College of Community Psychologists), Vol. 13, No.1, May pp 34-41, 2002.

Dudley, M., and  Gale, F. ‘Psychiatrists as a Moral Community? Psychiatry Under the Nazis and its Contemporary Relevance’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 36, No. 5, October, pp585-595, 2002.

Bolzan, N and Gale, F. ‘The Citizenship of Excluded Groups: Challenging the Consumerist Agenda’, Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 36, No. 4, August, pp. 363-376, 2002. 

Mares, S., Newman, L., Dudley, M and Gale, F., ‘Seeking Refuge, Losing Hope: Parents and Children in Immigration Detention’, Australasian Psychiatry, Vol. 10. No. 2, June 2002, pp. 91-97. 

Gale, F. ‘Illusions of Choice: Consumerism and Citizenship in Older Age’.   Proceedings of the 2000 Australasian Political Studies Association Conference. ISBN no 0731552113. November, 2000.

Gale, F. 'Informal Networks and Trade Union Participation of NESB and Australian-born Women,' Labour and Industry, November, Vol.5, No.3, pp. 125-136, 1994.

Gale, F. 'Constraints on the Participation of Women from NESB and Australian-born Women in Trade Unions', Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 28, No.4, 1993, pp. 285-295, .

Gale, F. 'A Comfortable Kind of Union?',  Australian Quarterly, No 62, pp. 15 – 20, 1990.

Books
Gale, F., Bolzan, N., Wilcox, K and McCrae- McMahon, D (eds) Spirited Practices: Spirituality and the Helping Professions, Allen and Unwin, Sydney 2007.

Dudley, M., Silove, D. and Gale, F (eds)  Human Rights and Mental Health (forthcoming 2008) Oxford University Press, Oxford UK.  

Book Chapters
Gale, F.  ‘Spiritually Sensitive Helping Practices’, Introduction, in Gale, F., Bolzan, N., and McCrae- McMahon, D (eds) Spirited Practices: Spirituality and the Helping Professions, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, July 2007.   

Bolzan, N and Gale, F. ‘To make an end is to make a beginning; the end is where we start from….’ Conclusion, in Gale, F., Bolzan, N., and McCrae- McMahon, D (eds) Spirited Practices: Spirituality and the Helping Professions, Allen and Unwin, July 2007. 

Gale. F. and Bolzan, N. ‘The writing Graffiti’s on the wall’ in R.Leonard (ed) A Fair Go: Some Issues of Social Justice in Australia, Common Ground Press, 2004.

Gale, F., and Dudley, M, ‘No Flowers in Australia’ in Bolzan, N,  Darcy M and Mason J (eds) Fenced Out, Fenced In: Border Protection, Asylum and Detention in Australia, Common Ground Press, 2006.

Bolzan, N., Gale, F. and Dudley, M., ‘Time To Father’, in Social Work Visions from Around the Globe: Citizens, Methods, and Approaches, Metteri, A., Kroger,T., Pohjola, A., Rauhala, P., (eds) Hawthorn Press, 2004.

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Other
Bolzan, N., and Gale, F. ‘A Child Friendly Society’, in Visions of a Child Friendly Society Suzanna Roffey (ed), NAPCAN, Sydney, December 2005.

Dudley, M., Mares, S., Newman, L., Steel, Z., Blick, B., Roy, K. and Gale, F. ‘Behind The Wire: Children in Immigration Detention’ Newsletter of the National Rural Health Alliance, September, 2003.

Gale, F.,  'They Gave Us Raincoats Instead: Women at Work in Australia', In God's Image, Vol. 13, No.2, Summer, 1994. 

Community Outreach and Media Activities

NSW Legislative Assembly Hansard, 19 June 2002, (article 35). Refers to my research, discussed in the Assembly, to raise questions about mistreatment of young asylum seekers in Australia’s Immigration Detention Centres. 

BBC radio interview on ‘Today’ program, Friday 1st March 2002. ‘Children in Immigration Detention’, Journalist Andrew Hoskin.

‘Guns, culture and mental illness’ article with Michael Dudley, Sydney Morning Herald, May 1996. (reprinted in New Doctor, No 65, Winter 1996).

'The End of Two Party Dominance?' article Sydney Morning Herald, April 11, 1990. (Also reprinted in Wel-informed, Newsletter of the Women's Electoral Lobby, March\ April 1990).