Meet the Academics: Dr Christina David & Christine Craik

Dr Christina David and Christine Craik are RMIT Academics working on the Voices From The Margins. They have assisted in key decision making on the project and we are excited to learn more about them and their fields of study.

Dr Christina David is a critical social work academic with extensive teaching and research experience and is Program Manager for the two undergraduate social work programs at RMIT, the Bachelor of Social Work (Hons) and the Bachelor of Social Work (Hons)/Bachelor of Social Sciences (Psychology). Christina teaches and is also actively engaged in funded research projects mainly relating to the experiences of people living with disability with different policy and service settings, including self directed and choice based funding and services. Christina’s research interests and activities also include projects related to supportive housing models, ageing, and elder abuse service and support responses. Christina is primarily engaged in qualitative research and participatory methodologies, including co-design, which focus on working collaboratively with people with lived experience. Christina also supervises HDR students undertaking research in related areas.

Christine Craik is a Family Violence Accredited Social Worker and has been a social worker for over 30 years. Christine currently lectures in the Social Work undergraduate and postgraduate programs at RMIT University, where she has developed and teaches the ‘Working with Violence and Abuse’ subject. Christine is the immediate past National President of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).

Christine has just submitted her PhD focusing on the extent, models and impacts of routine screening with women for domestic violence in emergency departments of Australian public hospitals.