Assoc. Prof. Parveen Kalliath

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.

Refereed Journal Articles

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 

 Kalliath, P., Kalliath, T., Chan, C., & Chan, XW. (2020). Enhancing job satisfaction through work-family enrichment and perceived supervisor support: The case of Australian social workers. Personnel Review, 49(9), 2055-2072

Kalliath, P., Kalliath, T., Chan, XW., & Chan, C. (2019). Linking work-family enrichment to job satisfaction through job wellbeing and family support. A moderated mediation analysis of social workers across India, British Journal of Social Work, DOI-10. 1093/bjsw/bcy022.

Kalliath, P., Kalliath, T., & Chan, C. (2015). Work-family conflict and family-work conflict as predictors of psychological strain:Does social support matter? British Journal of Social Work, 45(8), pp. 2387-2405.

Kalliath, P. (2014). Is work-family enrichment an antidote to experiences of psychological strain among social workers? An empirical study, Australian Social Work, 67(3), pp. 332-347.

Kalliath, P., & Kalliath, T. (2013). Does job satisfaction mediate the relationship between work-family conflict and psychological strain? A study of Australian social workers. Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development, 23(2), 91-105.

Kossek, E., Kalliath, T., & Kalliath, P. (2012). Achieving Employee Wellbeing in a changing work environment: An expert commentary on current scholarship. International Journal of Manpower, 33 (7), 738-743.   

Kalliath, T., & Kalliath, P. (2012). Direct and mediated effects of job satisfaction on burnout: A structural equations test. In K. Jaakson and M. Vaadi (Eds). Work values: Stability and Change in the Global Context pp. 258-265. Shreveport, Louisiana: International Society for the Study of Work & Organisational Values. (ISBN 978-0-9817997-2-8).

Kalliath, P., Kalliath, T., & Singh, V. (2011). When work intersects family: A qualitative investigation of dual earner couples in India. South Asian Journal of Management, 18(1), 37-59.

Kalliath, T., & Kalliath, P. (2006). Teaching to create empowered learning: Applying action learning in the classroom. International Journal of Learning.12 (5), 71- 78.

 Kalliath, P., & Kalliath, T. (2003).  The empowerment construct. Social Work Now, 24, p.25-30.

Kalliath, T., & Kalliath, P. (2006). A review of the work-family balance construct. In Stashevsky, S, (Ed). Work values and behavior. Shreveport, Louisiana: International Society for the  Study of Work & Organisational Values, (ISBN 9985-4-0487-4).

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).