Rate My Professor Susan Wason

Wason's scholarly work addresses social work education, field education, food insecurity, and the effects of parental mental health distress on children. Key publications include her 2019 research article 'Food banks and food rescue organisations: Damned if they do; damned if they don’t,' published in Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work (31(4), 71-83), which analyzes historical developments and local responses to food poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2020, she co-authored 'Aroha, Manaakitanga, Whanaungatanga: Social work educators’ reflections on the Covid-19 lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand' in Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work (32(2), 65-70), discussing adaptations in teaching, ethical principles, and relational dynamics during the lockdown. Recent contributions feature co-presentation of 'Field education in Te Waipounamu: Context, collaboration and practice' (2024, National Field Education Network and ANZSWWER Symposium) and papers on retrospective stories of growing up with parental mental health distress (2023, ASAA/NZ Annual Conference and Sociology, Gender Studies & Criminology and Social & Community Work Postgraduate Symposium VII). Wason also supervises postgraduate theses in social work.