philip Mendes

I am a Professor, and Director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit in the Department of Social Work at Monash University. I am the author or co-author of  13 books including Young people transitioning from out-of-home care: International Research, Policy and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), the 3rd edition of Australia's Welfare Wars (UNSW Press, 2017), and Empowerment and Control in the Australian welfare state (Routledge, 2019). Recently completed projects include a Sydney Myer-funded national study of Indigenous young people leaving care in partnership with SNAICC and the Monash University Indigenous Studies Centre,  an ARC Discovery study of compulsory income management in three sites, and an AHURI-funded study of the housing experiences of care leavers in Victoria and WA. Other research interests include the Australian far Right and social welfare policy, illicit drug policies including particularly supervised injecting facilities, social workers and policy practice, the social work registration debate, and Jewish community responses to institutional child sexual abuse including the case of Malka Leifer.
Address: Department of Social Work
Monash University