Dr Karen Crinall
Senior Lecturer
| Phone: | +61 3 990 26331 or +61 3 512 26331 | |
| Fax: | +61 3 990 26359 or +61 3 512 26359 | |
| Office: | 1E 125, Gippsland Campus | |
| Email: | karen.crinall@monash.edu |
Biography
Karen Crinall lectures in Community Welfare and Counselling, and is the course coordinator for the Master of Human Services Management. She has over twenty five years experience working, researching and teaching in the human services sector. As a researcher Karen has conducted practice-based and academic projects utilising feminist, visual and participatory action research methods. Karen has published on the topics of women and homelessness, rural and regional responses to social change, working with young women, the visual representation of homeless women and young people, the use of arts-based methods in social science research and family violence and homelessness policy reform. Karen’s qualifications span the visual arts, education and social sciences. She is currently a member of the SAFER ARC Linkage project, researching the Victorian integrated family violence reforms, and is also engaged in researching management issues in human service organisations, and restrictive interventions in disability accommodation services.
Research interests
- Women and homelessness
- Restrictive interventions in disability services
- Human services management
- Planning in Human Service Organisations
- Family Violence
- Visual representations of women as disadvantaged
- Visual and arts-based research methodologies
- Participatory Action Research methods
Current research projects
- The Victorian Integrated Family Violence Reforms
- Intersections between family violence and homelessness
- Management and planning in Human Service Organisations
- Restrictive interventions in disability accommodation services
- Visual and Arts-based research methodologies
- Participatory Evaluation
- Indigenous-led community-based initiatives to address family violence
- Visuality and social issues
Recent publications
Books
- Crinall, K. (2009) Imagining Women as Homeless: Re/Tracing Socially Concerned Photography, London: Lambert Academic Press
Refereed journal articles
- Crinall, K. (2009) “The Social Researcher as Artist: Creativity as a Social Science Research method.” International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. 3 (11) 2009: 181-190
- Crinall, K. (2009) “Appealing for help: A reflection on interpellation and intertextuality in the visual narrative of an Australian welfare campaign poster.” Current Narratives 1 (1): 11-22
- Crinall, K. (2008) “Breaking silences: Telling stories about family photographs” Women Against Violence. Issue 20 2007-2008: 3 -9
- Crinall, K. (2007) “Madonnas in need: Picturing divinity in destitution” The International Journal of the Arts in Society. 2007. 1 (5). pp: 59–70
Book chapters
- Crinall, K. (2009) “The search for a feminism that could accommodate homeless young women” in Concepts and Methods of Youth Work, ed. Rob White, Hobart: Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies: 209-218
Photo-essays
- Crinall, K. (2007) “Looking into the outside: The windows of Bertinoro” Contexts.6 (2). pp. 52–58
Book reviews
- Crinall, K. (2008) “Ads, Fads & Consumer Culture: Advertising’s Impact on American Character & Society (3rd edition) by Arthur Asa Berger. USA:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2007. 217 pages. Visual Studies. 23 (3) 2008: 287-289
- Crinall, K. (2007) “Understanding the Visual” by Tony Schirato and Jen Webb. Journal of Sociology. 43 (3): 322-324
Non-refereed publications
- Crinall, K & Hurley, J “Responding to family violence and preventing homelessness: What is required for effective implementation of ‘Safe at home’ programs?” Parity, Nov 2009
Teaching
- Social Issues and Personal Values
- Human Services Management and Practice
- Program Planning and Evaluation
- Research Methods for the Human Services
Postgraduate supervision
- Homelessness
- Representations of women
- Social documentary photography
- Family Violence
- Social Issues
- Human Services Management
- Visual representation
Grants
- ARC Linkage SAFER project Family Violence reform: Using knowledge to develop and integrate policy and practice. (2007 – 2012)
- Everything Effects Everything Else: Power, perception and hidden forms of restrictive practice in disability accommodation services, Office of the Senior Practitioner, Department of Human Services (2009 - 2010)
- A Realistic Evaluation of the East Gippsland Indigenous Family Violence CommUNITY Walk, VicHealth, (2009-2010)
Research consultancies
- Evaluation of the Raising Voices project for the Department of Human Services, Disability Accommodation Services, Gippsland region
- Evaluation of the Structured Approach to Students at Risk Pilot Project for the Department of Human Services and Department of Education, Gippsland Region