Rate My Professor Robin Shortland Jones

Robin Shortland-Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the Curtin School of Allied Health, Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. She serves as the Course Coordinator for the Master of Social Work (Qualifying) program. Holding a Bachelor of Social Work with First Class Honours, she has been engaged in teaching and research at Curtin University for over 13 years. Her academic and research interests center on social work practice with children, families, and mothers, as well as social work education, interprofessional collaboration, and innovative teaching methods emphasizing emotional learning.

Shortland-Jones's scholarly contributions include peer-reviewed articles on topics such as child protection staff perspectives on sensory interventions like the SOFT Program: Touch, Textures, Weights, and Pressures (2024, Australian Social Work); fathers' experiences caring for their child on a paediatric oncology ward (2022, Australian Social Work); social work students' experience of an interprofessional first year (2021, Advances in Social Work & Welfare Education); a reflection on a teaching activity with a focus on emotions conducted with first-year social work students (2016, Advances in Social Work & Welfare Education); mindfulness based interventions and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy shown to have similar effect in short-term treatment of anxiety, depression, and stress (2015); and Is Family Therapy Including Children? (2013, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy). She co-authored a chapter titled “Here’s to the misfits: Academic misfitting and collegiality as resistance and subversion” in the book Academic Misfits: Questioned Belongings in Higher Education (2025). Her excellence in teaching has been recognized with the 2022 Curtin Student Guild Excellence in Teaching Award for the Faculty of Health Sciences. She also led the Cultural Responsiveness Team in the Curtin School of Allied Health, recipient of a Teaching Excellence and Innovation Award. Additionally, she serves on the General Executive of the Australia New Zealand Social Work and Welfare Education Research (ANZSWWER).