Rate My Professor Janine Joyce

Professor Janine Joyce is the Associate Dean of Social Sciences, Social Work and Youth Work in the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University, located at the South West campus. An experienced pracademic and leader, she is an interdisciplinary social scientist with the ECU Centre for People, Place and Planet. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in 2015, Master of Health Sciences in 2007, Postgraduate Diploma in Health Sciences in 2004, and Bachelor of Social Work in 1986, all from New Zealand institutions. As a non-practicing Registered Social Worker in Aotearoa New Zealand (registration number 6708), she maintains professional memberships including full membership in the Australian Association of Social Workers Western Australia Branch since 2021, previous affiliation with the New Zealand Aotearoa Social Workers Association from 1989 to 2021, and the International Peace Research Association.

Her research centers on ecosystem resilience, climate justice, transformative responses to global environmental change, transdisciplinary participatory projects that build and maintain community adaptive capacity amid stressors like climate change, and the prioritization of Indigenous knowledge systems. Notable publications include McKenzie et al., 'Eastern Australian Farmers Managing and Thinking Differently: Innovative Adaptation Cycles' (Environmental Management, 2024); Kemp et al., 'Consideration of First Nations’ cultural values in mine site rehabilitation by environmental professionals' (Environmental Challenges, 2023); Joyce and Forsyth, 'It’s a matter of trust: Ngāi Tahu democratic processes and Māori Pākehā research partnership' (International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2022); Joyce, 'Ashram pilgrimage and yogic peace education curriculum development: an autoethnographic study' (Journal of Peace Education, 2020); and Joyce and Llewellyn, 'Implementing the principles of kotahitanga/unity and manaakitanga/hospitality in community peace activism: An experiment in peace building' (Interface: a journal for and about social movements, 2017). She received the Commonwealth Scholarship from the Indian Council for Cultural Relations from 2012 to 2014. Professor Joyce serves as Chair of the Editorial Board for Australian Social Work.