Rate My Professor Kate Duncanson

Kate Duncanson serves as the Director of Fieldwork for the Bachelor of Social Work program within the Curtin School of Allied Health, Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University. She earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Western Australia in 1990. As a dedicated social work academic, PhD candidate, and practitioner with more than 30 years of professional experience, including roles in local government, Duncanson has significantly contributed to the development of fieldwork education and student supervision practices at Curtin University. Her work emphasizes innovative approaches to interprofessional training and the enhancement of clinical placement experiences for health science students.

Duncanson's academic interests and research specializations focus on supervision in workplace and clinical placements, the integration of service user perspectives in social work field education, the impact of lived experience educators on student supervision, and the incorporation of peer workers in social work training. Notable publications include 'Lived experience educators challenging professional privilege in social work student supervision' (2025), 'Peer workers as icing on the cake or re-defining the recipe? Outcomes from exploring peer work with social work students' (2025), 'Yarning and yonga stew: Indigenous knowledge in tutoring research methods' (2025), 'Bearing Witness: The Impact of Lived Experience Educators Participating in Social Work Student Supervision during Placement' (2024, British Journal of Social Work), 'The integration of service user perspectives in social work field education' (2024, Social Work Education), 'Service Users in Social Work Student Supervision: A Scoping Review' (2021), 'An intervention to enhance the supervision of health science students who struggle during work placements' (2021, International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning), 'Evaluation of an inter-professional training program for student clinical supervision in Australia' (2014, Human Resources for Health), and 'Virtual Interprofessional Education in Remote and Rural Settings: an Australian and Scottish Experience' (2014). These contributions, which have accumulated 30 citations and over 4,400 reads on ResearchGate, have influenced social work pedagogy, including initiatives like the Valuing Lived Experience Program and the Social Justice Hub at Curtin University.