Parveen graduated with a Master of Social Work from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, St. Louis, USA and a PhD in Social Work from the University of Queensland, Australia. She has over thirty years social work practice experience in countries including India, USA, New Zealand and Australia. Parveen's career as a social worker began with community development work in India. The difficult and insecure lives of millions of people living in slums created within her a strong passion for social justice and equity. Parveen is the recipient of Mother Theresa and the Altrusa Women's Fellowship which was awarded to her by the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, St.Louis, USA. For several years she worked as a licensed clinical social worker in large medical college hospitals in St. Louis, USA. Later, in New Zealand, she became the team leader for social work in the Rehabilitation and Assessment services at Health Waikato. Parveen joined the academia after more than twenty years of social work practice. She coordinated the Bachelor of Applied Social Sciences (Social Work) program at the Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton, New Zealand before joining the Australian Catholic University in Canberra in 2005 where she is currently the Assistant Deputy Head of School and Course Coordinator for Social Work in Canberra campus.
Chan, XW, Kalliath, P., Fan, SX, & Kalliath, T. (2023). Examining work-home segmentation as a coping strategy for frontline workers: a mixed method study of social workers across Australia. International Journal of Human Resource Management., 34(4), 693-715.
Kalliath, P., Chan, XW., & Kalliath, T. (2022). Keeping work and family separate: A serial mediation analysis of social workers' work-family segmentation, work-family enrichment and job performance in Australia. British Journal of Social Work, 52, 236-255 
Associate Professor Parveen Kalliath ORCHID ID: 0000-0001-7176-9763  
Parveen's research interests include the work-family interface and its impact on work and family experiences of social workers. More specifically her research considers the impact of work-family conflict and enrichment on outcomes of psychological strain, job satisfaction, family satisfaction, job performance and wellbeing of social workers. Parveen's research is published widely in high ranking social work and other refereed inter-disciplinary international journals. She has presented her work at several international conferences.               
Parveen's teaching interests include units in direct social work practice and Social Work Research at the undergraduate and post graduate levels. She supervises PhD and BSW (Hons) students.
 
Australian Association of Social Workers (current) member of the ACT Branch Executive Committee
Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers, New Zealand (2002-2005)
National Association of Social Workers, USA (1989-1996)
Member of the Academy of Certified Social Worker, USA (1990-1995).