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Rate My Professor Mim Fox

University of Wollongong

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5.08/20/2025

Challenges students to grow and excel.

4.05/21/2025

Encourages students to think creatively.

5.04/30/2025

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About Mim

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.