Assoc Prof Stephan Lund

position: Deputy Dean, School of Allied Health and Head of Social Work and Social Policy

department: School of Allied Health/ Social Work and Social Policy

Associate Professor Stephan Lund is the Head of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Western Australia. Assoc. Prof. Lund has worked for over 20 years in the children, family and youth field in particular with foster families and children in the care system. His areas of research interest include innovation in alternate care, representing the voices of foster carers, children and young people and birth parents, care leavers and trauma-informed care in schools. Assoc. Prof. Lund is an educator with a strong interest in worker resilience, ensuring that social workers have knowledge of how to best work with First Nations stakeholders to work within a decolonising methodology.