Carole Zufferey

Welcome to my home page. I am currently employed as a Senior Lecturer in Social Work. I have been working at the University of South Australia as a tutor, course coordinator and researcher since 2002. Prior to entering academia I was a social worker and worked in the areas of child protection, aged care, disability, mental health and homelessness in Australia and the UK. My research interests are home, housing, homelessness, social work practice and education, domestic violence, employment, mental health and child protection.

[2026] Zufferey, C. (2026). Radicalising hope to resist the neoliberalisation of social work. Critical and Radical Social Work, 14(2), 328-344. [2026] Maxfield, K., Zufferey, C., & Maddison, C. (2026). Being in Court: Engaging Social Work Students in a Real-Life Context of Witnessing General Magistrate Court Hearings in South Australia. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 46(3), 375-391. [2026] Maxfield, K., Zufferey, C., & Maddison, C. (2026). Engaging Social Work Students in a Drug Intervention Treatment Court Experience: A University–Court Partnership. Australian Social Work, 1-13. [2026] Zufferey, C., Yu, N., Horsell, C., Cowie, J., Le, T., & Borgkvist, A. (2026). Critically examining assumptions about 'authentic assessments' when assessing social work interviewing skills. Social Work