Associate Professor Gabrielle Drake

Associate Professor, Social Work and Community Welfare

Biography

Dr Gabrielle Drake is Director of Academic Programs (Social Work and Community Welfare) at Western Sydney University. She is a recognised expert in the areas of social policy, mental health and disability, and homelessness and housing pathways. Gabrielle’s research interests include social work practice in mental health; disability; boarding houses; housing and homelessness pathways; consumer and carer voices in social work education; and inclusive and emancipatory research.

Gabrielle has twenty years practice experience spanning a variety of roles and practice settings including community and public sector management, strategic policy and reform, research, teaching in graduate and postgraduate social work programs, direct practice, and oversight.

Research Interests

• Social work practice
• mental health
• disability
• licensed boarding houses
• housing

Qualifications and Recognition

• PhD Curtin University of Technology
• MSocPcy University of Western Sydney
• BSW University of Western Sydney

Research and Publications

https://research-report.uws.edu.au/wpubs/Portal.asp

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