Rate My Professor Mim Fox

Professor Mim Fox serves as Head of Discipline for Social Work in the School of Social Sciences within the Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Wollongong. She holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of New South Wales. With a practice background spanning ten years as a hospital social worker specializing in death, dying, terminal illnesses, intensive care, emergency departments, and palliative care, Fox transitioned to academia, where she has taught and supervised social work students for over twenty years. Her career includes roles such as Senior Lecturer and Academic Program Director for the Master of Social Work (Qualifying). Fox is an internationally recognized researcher, writer, and podcaster focused on social work healthcare practice and education. Her research explores the articulation and translation of practice knowledge using digital technologies, building research capacity among hospital-based social workers, end-of-life care, compassion fatigue, international field placements, and eco-social work addressing climate change impacts on vulnerable populations through decolonized lenses incorporating Aboriginal perspectives.

Fox co-hosts the Social Work Stories Podcast, launched in 2018, which showcases everyday experiences of social work practitioners, analyzes practice, and promotes visibility of the profession. Key publications include 'Podcasting as an Innovative Pedagogical Tool in Social Work Education' (2025, Social Sciences), 'Building research capacity in hospital-based social workers' (2023, Qualitative Social Work), 'Death, dying and bereavement care during COVID-19' (2021), 'Compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma in everyday hospital social work: A personal narrative of practitioner-researcher identity transition' (2019), and 'Student isolation: the experience of distance on an international field placement' (2014, cited 19 times). Her Google Scholar profile reports 572 citations. Fox contributes to leadership as President of the Australia and New Zealand Social Work Education Research (ANZSWWER) Committee of Management and engages in collaborative research partnerships, curriculum co-design, and practitioner capacity building. Her work emphasizes diversity, decolonized education, and practical field placements preparing students for roles in hospitals, schools, probation, disability support, and community settings.