Rate My Professor Graeme Stuart

His research specializations encompass strengths-based practice, community engagement, inclusive group work, nonviolent relationships, asset-based community development, family engagement, counselling, wellbeing, humanitarian disasters, conflict, and peacebuilding. At the Family Action Centre, key projects included assertive outreach with women experiencing homelessness, Engaging Aboriginal Fathers, building social capital with refugee communities, Peaceful Pathways evaluation, and What can we do? Communities Responding to Violence. Currently, Stuart is part of the Name.Narrate.Navigate (NNN) team, a trauma-informed preventive program for young people who have used or are at risk of using violence in families and relationships, which secured $600,000 funding over three years in 2021. He volunteers with the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), established in 1975, facilitating workshops including the first online session during COVID-19, co-convening the international research team, contributing to council roles, and co-authoring books. Notable publications include the book Building Peace and Community: Alternatives to Violence Project Around the World (2024), Working with Youth Violence: The Name.Narrate.Navigate Program (2023), chapters such as Reflecting and Looking Forward (2024) and An Evaluation of AVP with Refugee Communities in Sydney, Australia (2024), and journal articles like Moving Experiential Peace Workshops Online (Peace Review, 2021), Evidence-informed practice and the integration of research, policy, teaching and practice in family services (Developing Practice, 2019), and Navigating dilemmas of community development: Practitioner reflections on working with Aboriginal communities (Community Development, 2016). His blog, Sustaining Communities, has nearly 2,000,000 views worldwide. From 2008 to 2019, he taught courses on group leadership, community engagement, family studies, and domestic violence response.