Rate My Professor Leia Greenslade

Dr. Leia Greenslade is an academic in the School of Health Sciences and Social Work within Griffith Health at Griffith University. She earned her PhD from Griffith University in 2013, with the thesis titled Social Work Activism: Resistance at the Frontier, supervised principally by Professor Donna McAuliffe and Associate Professor Lesley Chenoweth. This work culminated in the peer-reviewed publication Social Workers’ Experiences of Covert Workplace Activism (Greenslade, McAuliffe, & Chenoweth, 2015, Australian Social Work, 68(4), 422–437), which has garnered over 80 citations and examines social workers' subtle forms of resistance in oppressive workplace environments.

Greenslade's research specializations encompass ethics, activism, disability justice, social justice, resistance to oppressive practices, racism, and the integration of environmental concerns into social work. Her scholarship critically interrogates dominant cultural assumptions and advocates for the well-being and rights of minority communities, non-human animals, and ecological systems. Key contributions include co-authoring Social Work and the Natural Environment: Embedding Content Across Curricula (Boddy, Macfarlane, & Greenslade, 2018, Australian Social Work), which promotes environmental education in social work training; What social workers can learn from hybrid business activities (Ramsay et al., 2023, International Social Work), exploring sustainability strategies; and Turn it and Turn it Again: The Updated Inclusive Model of Ethical Decision Making (McAuliffe & Greenslade, 2025, Ethics and Social Welfare), refining an established ethical framework to emphasize interdependence. With more than 18 years as a social worker and university educator, she has delivered conference presentations on social work activism at AASW events and non-graded assessment at the ADCET UDL Symposium. Greenslade has authored consultancy reports such as To make the invisible visible: Consulting with children for the Productivity Commission and serves on the Advisory Board of the Jewish Council of Australia, contributing to public discourse on justice issues. ORCID: 0000-0002-2002-6000.