Linda Briskman

Professor Linda Briskman holds the Margaret Whitlam Chair of Social Work at Western Sydney University. She previously held the Dr Haruhisa Handa Chair of Human Rights Education at Curtin University (following Jim Ife) and Professor of Social Work at Curtin University. She conducts research, writes and advocates for the rights of Indigenous peoples and asylum seekers as well as challenging racism, including Islamophobia. She is a former president of the Australian Council of Heads of Schools of...See more

Professor Linda Briskman holds the Margaret Whitlam Chair of Social Work at Western Sydney University. She previously held the Dr Haruhisa Handa Chair of Human Rights Education at Curtin University (following Jim Ife) and Professor of Social Work at Curtin University. She conducts research, writes and advocates for the rights of Indigenous peoples and asylum seekers as well as challenging racism, including Islamophobia. She is a former president of the Australian Council of Heads of Schools of Social Work and a committee member of the Australian Council for Human Rights Education. Her publications include the co-edited Indigenous Bioethics: An Appeal to Human Rights, co-edited Social Work in the Shadow of the Law (2018), Social Work with Indigenous Communities: A Human Rights Approach (2014) and the co-authored Human Rights Overboard: Seeking asylum in Australia (2008). She has won awards for her work. See less