Rate My Professor Andrew Rudolph

Rudolph's research centres on child protection, collaborative decision-making, and state-community partnerships to address inequities, particularly for Indigenous peoples. He is affiliated with the Social and Community Work Programme at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, Dunedin. As a co-author, he contributed to conceptualization, data collection, formal analysis, and writing review and editing for the 2026 journal article Shifting Power at the Front Door: State–Community Decision-Making Partnerships in Child Protection, published in Social Sciences (vol. 15, issue 1, article 5). The paper evaluates a shared decision-making forum in Aotearoa New Zealand where a Māori community organisation and statutory agency collaborate on initial child protection reports to enhance information quality with local knowledge and respond to closed cases. Enablers include policy support for community devolution, shared aims, strong relationships, and community investment; challenges encompass worker reluctance, unclear processes, and authority conflicts. He also co-authored the 2025 report He Autaki Hou: Collaborative decision-making at child protection's front door. Of Te Rawara/Ngāpuhi descent, Rudolph guest lectured in 2023 on the role of land as a pillar of the Māori health system in the School of Surveying's SURV206 paper. His work supports the programme's emphasis on human rights, social justice, and self-determination in social work.