Professor Suzanne Hodgkin

Suzanne Hodgkin is the Professor of Social Work and Discipline Lead. She has a background in management, supervision, research, teaching and social work practice experience in the tertiary, government and non-government sectors. Professor Hodgkin was awarded a teaching Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2013). Professor Hodgkin has an international record of research that is placed based and related to critical social challenges such as developing sustainable rural health and aged care workforce models, improving comprehensive geriatric assessments and examining support provided to palliative care patients and their caregivers. Translation of this research has occurred in the following forms: Industry commissioned reports, media reports, conference proceedings, monographs, book and book chapters. In 2019, called as an expert academic witness to the Royal Commission into Aged Care and Safety to highlight issues for carers of older people. Her work and expert testimony was cited in the released interim report, Neglect.

CI Publications

Long, Gardner, F., Hodgkin, S., & Lehmann, J. (2023). Developing Social Work Professional Identity Resilience: Seven Protective Factors. Australian Social Work, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), 1&ndash14. https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2022.2160265

Hodgkin, S., Mnatzaganian, G., Warburton, J.& Winterton, R.(2022) Networks of care in Australian rural ageing populations, Journal of Rural Studies.92 17-25.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.03.001.

Savy, P., & Hodgkin, S. (2021). Australian rural community aged care services: Precarity and capacity. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 80(2), 324&ndash339. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12480.

Dellemain, J., Hodgkin, S., & Downey, H. (2021). A theory of rural case management: A Delphi study. The British Journal of Social Work, 51(7) 2750-2759 https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa029

Howell, T., Hodgkin, S., Modderman, C., & Bennett, P. (2021). Integrating Facility Dogs into Legal Contexts for Survivors of Sexual and Family Violence: Opportunities and Challenges. Anthrozoös, 1&ndash14. https://doi.org/10.1080/08927936.2021.1938406

Jones, M, Heckenberg, R., Wright, B J, & Hodgkin, S (2021). Understanding the nature and impact of occupational stress on Australian rural aged care workers. Health & Social Care in the Community, 29(3), 643&ndash653. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13338

Winterton, R., Hodgkin, S., Clune, S. J., & Brasher, K. (2021). Age?friendly care for older adults within rural Australian health systems: An integrative review. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 40(1) 16-34. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajag.12834.

Hodgkin, S., Savy, P., Clune, S., & Mahoney, A. -M. (2020). Navigating the marketisation of community aged care services in rural Australia. International Journal of Care and Caring, 4(3), 377-393. doi:10.1332/239788220x15875789936065

Dellemain, J., Hodgkin, S., & Downey, H. (2020). A theory of rural case management: A Delphi study. The British Journal of Social Work, 20 pages. doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcaa029

Mason, N., & Hodgkin, S. (2019). Preparedness for caregiving: A phenomenological study of the experiences of rural Australian family palliative carers. Health and Social Care in the Community, 27(4), 926-935. doi:10.1111/hsc.12710

Savy, P., Hodgkin, S., Long, K., Melis, R., Lewis, V., Furler, J., . . . Blackberry, I. (2019). Comprehensive geriatric assessment programmes: Possibilities, realities and
outcomes. Evaluation Journal of Australasia, 19(3), 115-133. doi:10.1177/1035719X19876153

Cash, B., Hodgkin, S., & Warburton, J. (2019). A transformative approach to systems theory in caregiving research. Qualitative Social Work: research and practice, 18(4), 710-726. doi:10.1177/1473325017749988

Cash, B., Warburton, J., & Hodgkin, S. (2019). Expectations of care within marriage for older couples. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 38(1), E19-E24. doi:10.1111/ajag.12590

Long, N., Hodgkin, S., Gardner, F., & Lehmann, J. (2018). The social work hat as a metaphor for social work professional identity. Advances in Social Work and Welfare Education, 20(2), 115-128.

Baker, S., Warburton, J., Hodgkin, S., & Pascal, J. (2018). The new informational paradigm: Developing practice-led approaches to the use of mobile ICT in social work. British Journal of Social Work, 48(6), 1791-1809. doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcx124

Hodgkin, S. P., Warburton, J., & Hancock, S. (2018). Predicting wellness among rural older Australians: a cross- sectional study. Rural and Remote Health, 18(3), 1-13. doi:10.22605/rrh4547

Dellemain, J., Hodgkin, S., & Warburton, J. (2017). Time, terrain and trust: Impacts of rurality on case management in rural Australia. Journal of Rural Studies, 49, 50-57. doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.11.006

Baker, S., Warburton, J., Hodgkin, S., & Pascal, J. (2017). The supportive network: rural disadvantaged older people and ICT. Ageing and Society, 37(6), 1291-1309. doi:10.1017/S0144686X16000350

Hodgkin, S., Paul, W., & Warburton, J. (2017). Effort-Reward Imbalance and Intention to Retire Early in Australian Healthcare Workers. Australasian Journal of Organisational Psychology, 10(e2), 1-8. doi:10.1017/orp.2017.2

Savy, P., Warburton, J., & Hodgkin, S. (2017). Challenges to the provision of community aged care services across rural Australia: perceptions of service managers. Rural and Remote Health, 17, 1-11. doi:10.22605/RRH4059

Hodgkin, S., Warburton, J., Savy, P., & Moore, M. (2017). Workforce Crisis in Residential Aged Care: Insights from Rural, Older Workers. Australian Journal of Public Administration, 76(1), 93-105. doi:10.1111/1467-8500.12204

Cash, B., Hodgkin, S., & Warburton, J. (2016). Practitioners' Perspectives on Choice for Older Spousal Caregivers in Rural Areas. Australian Social Work, 69(3), 283-296. doi:10.1080/0312407X.2015.1074258

Iacono, T., Pearce, N., Evans, L., & Hodgkin, S. (2016). A scoping review of pathways to dementia diagnosis for people with and without intellectual disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 60(7-8), 686.

Hodgkin, S. (2014). Intergenerational solidarity: An investigation of attitudes towards the responsibility for formal and informal elder care in Australia. Health Sociology Review, 23(1), 53-64. doi:10.5172/hesr.2014.23.1.53

Baker, S., Warburton, J., Hodgkin, S., & Pascal, J. (2014). Reimagining the Relationship between Social Work and Information Communication Technology in the Network Society. Australian Social Work, 67(4), 467-478. doi:10.1080/0312407X.2014.928336

Warburton, J., Moore, M. L., Clune, S. J., & Hodgkin, S. (2014). Extrinsic and intrinsic factors impacting on the retention of older rural healthcare workers in the north Victorian public sector: a qualitative study. Rural and Remote Health, 14(3), 1-16.

Warburton, J., Cowan, S., Winterton, R., & Hodgkins, S. (2014). Building Social Inclusion for Rural Older People Using Information and Communication Technologies: Perspectives of Rural Practitioners. Australian Social Work, 67(4), 479-494. doi:10.1080/0312407X.2013.834064

Cash, B., Hodgkin, S., & Warburton, J. (2013). Till Death Us Do Part? A Critical Analysis of Obligation and Choice for Spousal Caregivers. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 56(8), 657-674. doi:10.1080/01634372.2013.823472

Hodgkin, S. (2012). 'I'm older and more interested in my community': Older people's contributions to social capital. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 31(1), 34-39. doi:10.1111/j.1741-6612.2011.00528.x

Hodgkin, S., Warburton, J., & Savy, P. (2012). Using mixed methods to develop and implement a work sampling tool in residential aged care. International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, 6(1), 23-32. doi:10.5172/mra.2012.6.1.23

Hodgkin, S. (2011). Participating in social, civic, and community life: Are we all equal?. Australian Social Work, 64(3), 245-265. doi:10.1080/0312407X.2011.573798

Hodgkin, S. (2009). Inner wheel or inner sanctum: Gender and the social capital debate. Australian Feminist Studies, 24(62), 439-452. doi:10.1080/08164640903289310

Hodgkin, S. (2008). Telling it all: A story of women's social capital using a mixed methods approach. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2(4), 296-316. doi:10.1177/1558689808321641

Hodgkin, S. (2002). Competing demands, competing solutions, differing constructions of the problem of recruitment and retention of frontline rural child protection staff. Australian Social Work, 55(3), 193-203. doi:10.1080/03124070208410975

B1 and B2 Book Chapters

Warburton, J., & Hodgkin, S. (2020). Facilitating intergenerational dialogue: Ageing in rural places. In Social Work in Rural Australia: Enabling practice (pp. 191-203). doi:10.4324/9781003117278-16

Hodgkin, S., & Mahoney, A. -M. (2019). The aged care sector: residential and community care. In E. Willis, L. Reynolds, & T. Rudge (Eds.), Understanding the Australian health care system (4th ed., pp. 121-135). Chatswood, NSW: Elsevier. Retrieved from https://www.elsevierhealth.com.au/understanding-the-australian-health-care-system-9780729543286.html

Hodgkin, S. (2013). Families, reciprocal care and social capital. In Social Capital: Theory, Measurement and Outcomes (pp. 185-198).

E Books:

Erickson, Shane., Hodgkin, Suzanne, Karasmanis, Sharon, & Murley, George. (2018). Research and evidence in practice.

Industry Reports

Winterton, R. & Hodgkin, S. (2020) Developing a competency framework for health volunteer management. Report to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Winterton, R & Hodgkin, S. (2019), Local models of geriatric care in the Indigo region. Report prepared for the Beechworth Health Service and the Indigo Consortium.

Winterton, R & Hodgkin, S. (2019), Age Friendly Rural Health Review, Report prepared for the Beechworth Health Service and the Indigo Consortium.

Hodgkin, S., Mahoney, A., Savy, P., Clune, S. & Hancock, S. (2019). Scoping the Skills and Training needs of Community Care Staff in Rural Localities. Report to the Department of Industries, Innovation and Science.

Winterton, R. Wilding, C., Berg, T., Long, K. Hodgkin, S. & Blackberry, I. (2019) Final Report, Well Ageing Vision and Engagement (WAVE) Project.

Vogels, W., Modderman, C. & Hodgkin, S. (2018). Aboriginal children in out of Home Care accessing health assessments. Report to the Murray Primary Health Network

Howell, T., Bennett, P., Hodgkin, S. & Modderman, C. (2018). The effectiveness of support dogs in sexual and family violence Report to the Centre Against Violence.

Warburton, J., Winterton, R., Hodgkin, S. & Peterson, M. (2017) ASPIRE: Ageing Services and Supports in Rural Communities.

Stonehouse, D & Hodgkin, S, (2016), Housing Affordability and Homelessness in the Hume Region, Victoria, La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University.

Warburton, J., Savy, P., & Hodgkin, S., (2015) Enabling the community care workforce in rural areas to address the needs of those ageing in place. Report to the IRT Foundation.

Warburton, J., Savy, P., & Hodgkin, S., (2010). Workforce Mapping Project: Rural Public Sector Residential Aged Care Services. Report to the Department of Health (Aged Care).

Hodgkin, S. Health and Social Participation Survey (2003). Report to the City of Wodonga and Upper Hume Community Health Services.

Professor Hodgkin has an extensive background in mixed methods research and employed used numerous qualitative methodologies and transformative mixed methods designs. One of her designs has been cited extensively in Creswell and Plano Clark&rsquos text, as an exemplar of a mixed methods transformative design. 

Her research areas include:  ageing in rural locations , rural  health and aged care workforce models, social capital,  social work and child protection

• Member, Australasian Association of Ageing (AAG)
• Convener Special Interest Group, Rural and Remote AAG
• Member Australian Association of Social Work