Professor Bindi Bennett
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Professorial Research Fellow
Campus
Biography
Dr Bindi Bennett (she/her) is a K/Gamilaroi woman, mother and social worker and is a Professorial Research Fellow at Federation University living, playing and working on Jinibara lands.
She is a social justice scholar, a compassionate radical and activist requesting transformational change who is committed to improving and growing cultural responsiveness, re-Indigenising Western spaces, understanding and exploring Indigenous Knowledge Systems in research and exploring the human-animal bond.
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National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth and Justice
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The How of Doing Decoloniality in Social Work: Indigenous and Antioppressive Yarning
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/0312407X.2025.2547734
Enhancing Equity in Clinical Social Work Education: Supporting Indigenous Queer and Gender Diverse Students and Researchers'
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1007/s10615-024-00938-x
Special Issue on LGBTQ+ Clinical Social Work Practice: Global Insights into Allyship and Inclusion in Clinical Social Work with Sexual and Gender Diverse/Expansive Communities
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1007/s10615-024-00983-6
Why should Indigenous Peoples have anything to do with the Western research system and who gets to decide?
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4337/9781035310173.00011
Animals and Social Work
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.11157/anzswj-vol37iss1id1254
Radical reflection plus radical transformation equals revolutionary social work
Truth and justice: First Nations Australians and thought leadership in social work
Emancipatory decoloniality as leadership in social service organizations: Insights from indigenous and anti-oppressive yarnings
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1093/bjsw/bcaf104
Co-designing culturally responsive simulation-based learning: AI, First Peoples' knowledges, and the implications for social work field education
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9781003673675-15
Transformational learning and agency for professional identity development: first-year social work student retention and wellbeing
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/02615479.2023.2300659
Indigenous food sovereignty assessment—A systematic literature review
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/1747-0080.12813
Attachment styles, continuing bonds, and grief following companion animal death
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/07481187.2023.2265868
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/gender diverse, queer, and intersex+ inclusion in Asia-Pacific social work education: a scoping review
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/02615479.2023.2273265
Workforce strategies to address children's mental health and behavioural needs in rural, regional and remote areas: A scoping review
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/ajr.13119
Privileging Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom as Feminist Social Work Practitioners
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9781003317371-7
Australian Universities, Indigenization, Whiteness, and Settler Colonial Epistemic Violence
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-981-97-5085-6_63
Drunk in China? The Imperative for Effective Interventions Against Alcohol Abuse
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/10826084.2024.2392542
Caring for Country: Social Workers Standing in Solidarity with Indigenous Disaster Practices
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9781003309208-10
The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work and Disaster Practice
- Book
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9781003309208
Introduction to Section One: Social Work and Disaster Practice
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9781003309208-2
Rankings, Ruling and Reproducing Inequities: Critiquing the Knowledge Production of Social Work's "Top 100 Scholars"
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/10428232.2024.2434788
Race(ing) social work in Australia: Three critical recognitions for dismantling racism
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-981-97-5085-6_45
Decolonization and trauma-informed truth-telling about Indigenous Australia in a social work diversity course: a cultural safety approach
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/15313204.2022.2154882
Emotional wellbeing as a matter of relationships and love: insights for social work from mental health peer mentor trainees, carers and practitioners
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/15332985.2023.2195521
Understanding camp dogs: the relationship between Aboriginal culture and western welfare
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1177/11771801231167671
Cyberbullying, Mental Health, and Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth with Disabilities: Intersectionalities and Environmental Risks
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1007/s10826-023-02679-w
The problem with cooperative action problems: Conceptions of agency and the understanding of environmental crises
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9781003389569-14
Acting with Intentional Dissent as Minorities: Opportunities and Challenges in the Higher
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-3-031-37712-9_3
There is No Such Thing as a Blank Slate: Accountability in decolonising universities
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9781003271802-9
The Continuous Improvement Cultural Responsiveness Tools (CICRT): Creating More Culturally Responsive Social Workers
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/0312407X.2023.2186255
Workplace Heterosexism and Well-being: Education, Social Class, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, and Human Rights
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1007/s41134-023-00241-8
Strengthening critical allyship in social work education: opportunities in the context of #BlackLivesMatter and COVID-19
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/02615479.2021.1972961
Inclusion of animals in allied health practice in Australia: a beginning exploration
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/15332985.2022.2153637
The Non-Indigenous Educator Teaching Australian Aboriginal Content in Social Work Education
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/0312407X.2022.2105164
Workplace friendships while teleworking during COVID-19: Experiences of social workers in Australia
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1177/00208728211058774
A Mixed-Methods Assessment of Human Well-Being Related to A Mixed-Methods Assessment of Human Well-Being Related to the Presence of Companion Animals During the COVID-19 Pandemic
'Getting Used to the First Nations Person in the Room': A Discussion on Field Practice in Australia
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9781032164946-16
Teaching and learning cultural humility: lessons in knowing, being and doing
Position statement: Research and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples in rural health journals
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/ajr.12834
An intercultural critical reflection model
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- DOI reference: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2067139
Adult Learning as Metamorphosis and Popular Education for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Gender Diverse, and Queer+ Equality: The Story of Leonard Matlovich
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- DOI reference: 10.1177/10451595221084413
Position statement: Research and reconciliation with Indigenous People in rural health journals
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- DOI reference: 10.4103/cjrm.cjrm_67_21
Indigenous Ideas Benefit Collaborative Research Partnerships
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- DOI reference: 10.1080/0312407X.2022.2049580
Position statement: research and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in rural health journals
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.22605/RRH7353
Indigenous Cultural Identity of Research Authors Standard: research and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in rural health journals
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- DOI reference: 10.22605/RRH7646
ICIRAS: Research and reconciliation with indigenous peoples in rural health journals
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/ajr.12905
Aboriginal Social Work Academics: Failure to Thrive due to Having to Fight to Survive?
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/0312407X.2021.1989001
Creating spatial, relational and cultural safety in online social work education during COVID-19
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/02615479.2021.1924664
Position statement: Research and reconciliation with indigenous people in rural health journals; [Énoncé de position: Recherche et réconciliation avec les peuples autochtones dans les revues de médecine rurale]
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.4103/cjrm.cjrm_67_21
Psychoneuroimmunology concerns of the Olympic boycotts
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.bbi.2022.02.028
Australian Social Work: Proposed Guidelines for Articles by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Authors and About Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Issues
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/0312407X.2021.2013511
Gender inequality and health disparity amid COVID-19
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.outlook.2021.08.004
Indigenous cultural identity of research authors standard: Research and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples in rural health journals
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.4103/cjrm.cjrm_25_22
Teaching Mental Health and Well-Being Online in a Crisis: Fostering Love and Self-compassion in Clinical Social Work Education
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1007/s10615-021-00786-z
Working towards cultural responsiveness and inclusion in Australia: The re-Indigenization of social work education
Could assistance dogs improve well-being for aboriginal peoples living with disability?
Mistakes and Misunderstandings: Why Are Social Workers Still Not Getting It Right?
Towards a Critical Posthumanist Social Work: Trans-Species Ethics of Ecological Justice, Nonviolence and Love
Covid-19 vaccine donations - vaccine empathy or vaccine diplomacy? A narrative literature review
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3390/vaccines9091024
Making #blacklivesmatter in universities: a viewpoint on social policy education
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1108/IJSSP-11-2020-0512
The impact of teaching culture online during COVID-19
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1177/00208728211017963
What to bring when you are told not to bring a thing: The need for protocols in acknowledging Indigenous knowledges and participants in Australian research
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1177/1440783319876988
Acknowledgements in Aboriginal social work research: How to counteract neo-colonial academic complacency
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9780429284182-4
Ownership and protection of Aboriginal knowledge: academic response and responsibility
Teaching cultural humility for social workers serving LGBTQI Aboriginal communities in Australia
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/02615479.2019.1588872
The Potential of Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy for Treating Trauma in Australian Aboriginal Peoples
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1093/bjsw/bcz053
Creating a Culturally Safe Space When Teaching Aboriginal Content in Social Work: A Scoping Review
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/0312407X.2018.1518467
Incorporating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Curriculum Frameworks into Practice and Implications for Employment,
Social Work and Indigenous Australians: Ngurambang Yanhambulanha (Walking Country)
Wayanha: A Decolonised Social Work
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- DOI reference: 10.1080/0312407X.2018.1469654
Cultural Responsiveness in Action: Co-Constructing Social Work Curriculum Resources with Aboriginal Communities
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1093/bjsw/bcx053
Is community development equity or justice?
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1017/CBO9781107741768.009
The importance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history for social work students and graduates
What Do We Know? The Experiences of Social Workers Working Alongside Aboriginal People
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/0312407X.2010.511677
A model for consultation with Aboriginal stakeholders about young people's mental health and wellbeing: The NSW School-Link Training Program
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/10398560802192296
Hearing the stories of Australian aboriginal and torres strait islander social workers: Challenging and educating the system
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1046/j.0312-407X.2003.00054.x
"Stop Deploying Your White Privilege on Me!" Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement with the Australian Association of Social Workers
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/0312407X.2013.840325
How do light-skinned aboriginal Australians experience racism?: Implications for social work
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- DOI reference: 10.1177/117718011401000207