Rate My Professor David Hodgson

Associate Professor David Hodgson serves in the Social Work program at Curtin University's Curtin School of Allied Health, within the Faculty of Health Sciences. With more than twenty-two years of experience in social work higher education teaching and research, his academic interests include social work theory, social justice theory and practice, social work education, qualitative research methodologies, trauma-informed practices in schools, artificial intelligence in social work, empathy in therapeutic contexts, and out-of-home care research. He has contributed to evaluations of alternatives to suicide approaches and explorations of social justice in social work healthcare. Hodgson co-leads the Valuing Lived Experience Program at Curtin University and curates the New Voices in Social Work Research blog, supporting higher degree by research students and early career researchers as a member of the Australia New Zealand Social Work and Welfare Education and Research.

Hodgson is co-author of influential texts including Social Justice Theory and Practice for Social Work (Springer, 2019, with Lynelle Watts) and Key Concepts and Theory in Social Work (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, with Lynelle Watts). His peer-reviewed publications feature in journals such as the British Journal of Social Work, Issues in Educational Research, and Active Learning in Higher Education. Key works encompass Problematising Artificial Intelligence in Social Work Education: Challenges, Issues and Possibilities (British Journal of Social Work, 2022), 'One size does not fit all': Engaging students who have experienced trauma (Issues in Educational Research, 2020, with Rebecca Parker), Helping doctoral students understand PhD thesis examination expectations: A framework and a tool for supervision (Active Learning in Higher Education, 2020), and What can moral and social intuitionism offer ethics education in social work? A reflective inquiry (British Journal of Social Work, 2017, with Lynelle Watts). He has received teaching excellence and innovation awards from the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University. Previously, Hodgson held academic positions including Associate Professor and Lecturer at Edith Cowan University.