Rate My Professor Carole Zufferey

Dr. Carole Zufferey is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work in the School of Social Work and Social Care, within the College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences at Adelaide University. She has been working at the University of South Australia, now integrated into Adelaide University, since 2002 in roles including tutor, course coordinator, and researcher. Prior to academia, she practiced as a social worker in child protection, aged care, disability services, mental health, and homelessness in Australia and the United Kingdom. Her research interests center on home, housing, and homelessness; social work practice and education; domestic violence; employment; mental health; and child protection. Zufferey is eligible to supervise Master's and PhD students.

Zufferey has produced a substantial body of scholarly work impacting social work and related fields. She authored the book Homelessness and Social Work: An Intersectional Approach (Routledge, 2017), which applies intersectionality to understanding homelessness. She co-edited Faces of Homelessness in the Asia Pacific (2018) with Nilan Yu. Key recent publications include 'Radicalising hope to resist the neoliberalisation of social work' in Critical and Radical Social Work (2024); 'The long shadow of intimate partner violence: associations of mental and physical health with employment, housing, and demographic factors' in Violence Against Women (2024); 'Supervision on country: enhancing culturally safe social work supervision through First Nations knowledges' in Australian Social Work (2025); 'Governing failed neoliberal subjects: representations of women's mental health in Australian mental health policies' in Qualitative Social Work (2025); and 'Being in Court: Engaging Social Work Students in a Real-Life Context of Witnessing General Magistrate Court Hearings in South Australia' in Journal of Teaching in Social Work (2026). Her contributions advance intersectional approaches in social work practice, education, and policy responses to complex social challenges.