{"id":144,"date":"2022-04-04T09:49:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T00:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/?p=144"},"modified":"2022-04-04T09:55:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T00:25:50","slug":"on-societys-frontlines-we-all-need-to-shoulder-the-burden-of-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/2022\/04\/04\/on-societys-frontlines-we-all-need-to-shoulder-the-burden-of-social-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"On society\u2019s frontlines &#8211; we all need to shoulder the burden of social justice."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"component_section white_container white_container_featured section_component_updated padding_top_25 padding_bottom_none padding_left_none padding_right_none transparency_none viewport_auto col_1_section \" data-content-tag-mode=\"disabled\">\n<div class=\"container vertical-align-height-fix\">\n<div class=\"row display-flex default\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12\">\n<div class=\"component_in_section_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"rte text\">\n<div id=\"rte-6da8994e05\" class=\"cmp-text\">\n<p><strong><span class=\"rte-custom-style__font-family--circular-medium\"><span class=\"rte-custom-style__font-weight--400\"><span class=\"text_color_flinders_navy\">Social work is a family business for Dr Michelle Jones, SWIRLS Member and Senior Lecturer at Flinders University\u2019s College of Education, Psychology and Social Work \u2013 her Popa worked at Yatala prison and her aunt in the health field.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been a focus on social justice throughout my life as a result of their influence,\u201d Dr Jones says.<\/p>\n<p>While her focus on social justice may be a singular one, the fronts from which she fights for it are many and varied, ranging from childhood obesity, Aboriginal health, domestic and family violence, child protection, the health and social impacts of climate change and social isolation of diverse communities.<\/p>\n<p>The unifying factor is an understanding of the social determinants of health, and how the social circumstances in which people live, work and play affect their health wellbeing, and safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaking a social justice lens helps us to understand the ways race, rurality, religion, income, gender and ability contribute to health and social inequities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more in the Flinders Brave Minds online publication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/research\/braveminds\/on-societys-frontlines\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social work is a family business for Dr Michelle Jones, SWIRLS Member and Senior Lecturer at Flinders University\u2019s College of Education, Psychology and Social Work \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2087,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}