Ms Deirdre Tedmanson

Hi there! Before working in the School of Social Work and Social Policy I was a lecturer in what is now known as the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research. My experience prior to academe has included work in community development, research, policy and management positions in both the community sector and State Government, as well as working in Australia's Commonwealth Parliament as a senior political adviser. I've taught in many of the courses across the School of Social Work and Social Policy and the courses I currently co-ordinate are listed below.

As well as lecturing in the School I'm currently the SA research leader for Core Project 5: Desert Services that Work - Demand Responsive Services to Desert Settlements for the Desert Knowledge Co-operative Research Centre based in Alice Springs. In my work for the CRC I'm part of a national team of researchers located across 4 regions in the NT, WA, Qld and SA, involved in analysing the service delivery system in desert communities at the interface between demand and supply, identifying critical issues and strategies for change through the design of technology-based service delivery models with the aim of improving the service system.

I'm a core researcher for the Hawke Research Institute for Sustanaible Societies and actively involved with both its Social Policy Research Group and Centre for Postcolonial Studies. In addition to my lecturing and research interests with UniSA and the DKCRC, I'm a Research Scholar with the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University where I'm completing a PhD in political science and public policy.

In 2001, with School colleague Harry Savelsberg, I won the Chancellor’s UniSA Community Service Award for contribution to collaborative Indigenous and multicultural research. In September 2007 I was featured as Researcher of the Month and later that same year honoured to receive the Division Research Award for Community Engagement. Finally in this introduction, I'd like to share with you a little of the values that animate my teaching and research activities: I passionately believe, as Freire (1985) tells us, that 'besides being an act of knowing, education is a political act'. As academics we have a unique privilege, a special opportunity and a gentle but constant duty to ourselves and to each other to pursue excellence, fun and social justice in all areas of our scholarship!

Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies: - Social Policy Research Group - Centre for Post-colonial Studies

Desert Knowledge CRC

• Because of my background and experience in community development, management, social and public policy and political theory I've taught across many of the courses in the School during my time here. My specific teaching interests relate to the critical analysis, organisational, management, and policy dimensions of human service delivery; the impact of globalisation on the human welfare; Indigenous Australians and the state; human service project management; developmental evaluation and participatory action research.

Australian Association for Social Work and Welfare Education

International Political Science Association

Australian Political Science Association

Academy of Management

European Group for Organizational Studies

Standing Committee on Organizational Symbolism

Bachelor of Arts, Flinders University (*Awarded Chancellor’s Commendation for Academic Excellence)

Master of Policy and Administration, Flinders University (*Awarded Women’s Suffrage Centenary Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies)

PhD, Australian National University (in progress)

• My research interests include: social policy and practice; Indigenous enterprise development, governance and rights; Indigenous community development, social and mental health well-being (including substance misuse and alternative epistemologies); Indigenous alternative care and organisational development; socio-cultural aspects of entrepreneurship and social enterprise; human service systems and project management; volunteering and social capital; postcolonial theory; critical management studies; the political economy of violence and power; environmental & social justice and participatory action research methodologies.

Tedmanson, D. (2008). "Isle of exception: sovereign power and Palm Island", Critical Perspectives on International Business Volume 4 Issue 2/3, special edition: Critical reflections on management and organizations - a postcolonial perspective; pps 142 -165.

Bryant, L. and Tedmanson D. (2006). "Drilling Down: Exploring the Barriers to Gender and Indigenous Diversity n the Australian Mining Industry", International Journal on Knowledge, Culture and Change Management. Vol 4.

Tedmanson, D. (2006). Whose capacity needs building? Reflections on capacity building initiatives in remote Australian Indigenous communities. In Prasad, A. (ed) Against the Grain: Advances in Postcolonial Organization Studies, Advance in Organization Studies Series, Liber & Copenhagen Business School Press (in progress) Acceptance date: 15th April 2006.

Tedmanson, D. (2006). The disquieting revolution or the end of ideology? New policy or old paradigms for remote Indigenous communities? In King, S. Social Policy and Practice in an Australian Post Welfare State, Social Policy Research Group. (in progress) Acceptance date: 20th November 2005.

Savelsberg, H. & Tedmanson, D. (2006) Community Services in the post welfare era: volunteering in Indigenous and non-English speaking background communities. In King, S. Social Policy and Practice in an Australian Post Welfare State, Social Policy Research Group.(in progress) Acceptance date: 10th November 2005.

Jouve, D. Bryant, L. Gill, J. and Tedmanson, D. (2005). "If I Don't Speak to My Child in My Own Language Then Who Will? Kanak Women Writing Culture for Children", Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Special Issue, South Pacific Women; XXVII: 2.

Kerr, L. and Tedmanson, D. (2004). "Experiences and Perceptions of Volunteering in Indigenous and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities", International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations (Vol 3B).

Kerr, L. and Tedmanson, D. (2003). "Active citizenship, social capital and diversity: when volunteering falls outside the square", The Australian Journal on Volunteering, 8 (1)pps 23¡V32.

Kerr, L. Savelsberg, H. Sparrow, S. and Tedmanson, D. (2001). "Celebrating diversity: experiences and perceptions of volunteering in Indigenous & non-English speaking background communities", The Australian Journal on Volunteering, 6 (2)pps 117¡V27.

Refereed Conference Papers (abstracts in proceedings):

Tedmanson, D. (2008). "Stabilize, Normalize, Exit - Neo-Paternalism: The National Emergence for Indigenous Australia", presented at the Social Movements and/in the Post Colonial: dispossession, development and resistance in the global south Conference at the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, University of Nottingham, UK, 24th - 25th of June 2008.

Tedmanson, D. (2008). "Outside the Square, Erasure and Closure: Whiting-out Indigenous Presence in an Australian Capital City", presented at the Standing Committee on Organisational Symbolism (SCOS) conference, The City: Regenerating Management and Organization? held at University of Manchester, 1-4 July 2008.

Essers, C. and Tedmanson, D. (2008). "Upsetting others?: Narratives at the intersection of gender, ethnicity and entrepreneurship - Turkish Muslim women entrepreneurs in Australia and the Netherlands" presented in the Identity, Work and Organization stream at the European Group of Organization Studies conference held at Vrije University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 10-12 July , 2008.

Tedmanson, D. (2008). "By Other Means: The Business of Fourth World Wars" paper for the Corporate Social Illusion stream of the Critical Management Studies Research Workshop held Los Angeles, 7-8th August, 2008.

Tedmanson, D. (2007). "Isle of Exception - Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Palm Island" presented at 5th Critical Management Studies Conference, University of Manchester, 11-13 July , 2007.

Tedmanson, D. (2007), "The Stain on our Ability: the Whiteness of the Political Economy of Indigenous Enterprise, Communities and Organizations" paper presented at Sustainability Conference, University of Madras, India, 4 -7 January, 2007.

Banerjee, S.B. & Tedmanson, D.T. (2007). "Grass Burning Under our Feet: Indigenous Enterprise Development in a Political Economy of Whiteness", Paper presented at the 5th Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester, July 11-13, 2007.

Tedmanson, D. & Bryant, L. (2005) "Telling the Future: Feminist research collaborations in Indigenous contexts", presented at the Diversity Symposium: International Conference on Diversity in Communities, Organizations and Nations, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, 7-8th December, 2005.

Tedmanson, D (2005). "Whose Capacity Needs Building? Open hearts and empty hands: Reflections on capacity building in remote communities", presented in the 4th International Critical Management Studies Conference, Postcolonialism Stream, University of Cambridge, 4-6th July, 2005..

Bryant, L & Tedmanson, D. (2005). "Drilling Down Exploring the Barriers to Gender and Indigenous Diversity in the Australian Mining Industry", presented at 5th International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organizations, Rhodes, Greece, 19th ¡V 22nd July, 2005.

Tedmanson, D & McCutcheon, A (2005). "Talking While Walking: Consultancy in Indigenous Cultural Context", presented at 5th International Conference on Knowledge, Culture & Change in Organizations, Rhodes, Greece, 19th ¡V 22nd July, 2005.

Tedmanson, D (2004). "Reflections on a Study of Petrol Sniffing in a Remote Australian Indigenous Community", presented at 4th International Conference on Diversity in Communities, Organizations and Nations, University of California, Los Angeles, 6-9th July, 2004.

Tedmanson, D (2003). "Ngapartji: Ngapartji Learning Together - Imparting Knowledge or gaining wisdom? - Inside Out Conference: Charting Uncertainty: Capital, Community and Citizenship", University of Queensland, Community Service and Research Centre Ipswich 3rd -5th July, 2003.

Tedmanson, D (2003). "Managing Well: professional development and organisational capacity building in Indigenous contexts", ACOSS Congress Piecing it Together: Equity, Empowerment and Change Canberra 13-14 November 2003.

Tedmanson, D, (2000), "Unfinished Business", Presentation to Canadian Academy of Social Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada, May 28-30th.

Research Reports and Other Publications:

Tedmanson, D., Geurin, P. and Sparrow, S. (2008). Evaluation Report : Substance Misuse and Community Resilience Project, prepared for the Grannies Group, Kero Yerlo, May,, 2008.

Tedmanson, D. (2006) More Aboriginal Friendly Please: Strategic Scoping Study into the Provision of Aboriginal Health Services in Wakefield Country Region, Social Policy Research Group, University of South Australia, Adelaide

Tedmanson, D; Killen, A; Agius, T and Chong, A (2005) Review of Aboriginal Alternative Care in the Northern Country Region (2005); Social Policy Research Group, University of South Australia Adelaide

Tedmanson, D and Maher, C. (2003) Report to the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs on the Coroner¡¦s Findings on Petrol Sniffing Deaths and Review of Community Capacity Building Strategies. Social Policy Research Group, University of South Australia, Adelaide.

Kerr L, Savelsberg H, Sparrow S, Tedmanson D. (2001). Experiences and perceptions of volunteering in Indigenous and non-English speaking background communities. Social Policy Research Group University of South Australia, Adelaide.

Bin-Sallik, M and Tedmanson, D (2001) Indigenous Perspectives On Management & Service Delivery. Life Journeys National Human Services Conference, SA Government, Department for Human Services, Adelaide.

Marshall, M and Tedmanson, D, (2000) Indigenous Perspectives on Management Video Set and Resource Book. College of Indigenous Education and Research, Adelaide.

Tedmanson, D; Marshall M and Kamara, M. (1999), Indigenous Perspectives in Management. The Unaipon School, University of South Australia, Adelaide.

Carson, E, King, S, Tedmanson, D, Tesoriero, F and Walker, D. (1998a) Community Perceptions of Social Outcomes of Urban Redevelopment in Rosewood, South Australian Housing Trust, Adelaide.

Carson, E, King, S, Tedmanson, D, Tesoriero, F and Walker, D. (1998b) Community Perceptions of Social Outcomes of Urban Redevelopment in Mitchell Park. South Australian Housing Trust, Adelaide

Wyatt, F, Harris, R, Tedmanson, D, Edwards, G, Bone, J & Carson, E (1997). Crime prevention training needs assessment. Canberra: NCAVAC, Federal Attorney-General's Department, Canberra.

Research grants:

ARC Discovery grant (2008/10) Chief Investigator (CI 3) with Professor Bernard Guerin, Dr Pauline Guerin (Flinders University) and Yvonne Clark (Adelaide University): Indigenous mental health in remote communities: Applying a contextual model of community research and intervention - This project makes an international advance in understanding Indigenous mental health and is of interest to many groups around the world. National benefit will flow from contextual knowledge on how to improve mental health for remote Indigenous communities while strengthening communities and their economic and social enterprises. The project aims to build capacity in communities for research skills, documentation skills, and writing skills. The types of contextual information collected will provide recommendations to mental health service providers about how to incorporate local forms of knowledge when dealing with issues of well being.

ARC Linkage grant (2007/9) Chief Investigator (CI 1)with Professor Bobby Banerjee (University of Western Sydney): Social and Cultural Factors in Indigenous Enterprise Development - This research project is being conducted in partnership with UnitingCare Wesley Adelaide and Pukatja; Turkey Bore & Anilalya Community Councils, Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yunkanyatjara Lands in SA. It involves interviews at community, regional and statewide levels with individuals & families & stakeholders about development of local Anangu social enterprise. The project is utilising an action research methodology and Anangu co researchers are involved in the design and delivery of aspects of the project. It will provide unique evidence based research information on Indigenous enetrprise development in remote contexts of national benefit and with wide theoretical and practical applicability.

AITSIS research grant (2006/7): Chief Investigator with Prof. B. and Dr. P Guerin - Mental health in remote Indigenous contexts.

AITSIS research grant (2005/6): Chief Investigator with Prof Bobby Banerjee - Sustainable Social Enterprise Development, Anangu Way.

HRISS Research Development Grant (2007/80: Key Researcher with Dr Lia Bryant (Research Centre for Gender Studies) and Dr Caroline Essers (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) - Stories at the Intersection: Narratives of Identity and Multiple Roles.

HRISS Reserach Development Grant (2007/8): Key Researcher with Harry Savelsberg and Syd Sparrow - Volunteering across cultures: Active citizenship, social capital & diversity.

UniSA Collaborative Research Grant. (2005/6) with Professor Bobby Banerjee - Sustainable enterprise development in remote Indigenous communities: A preliminary investigation.

UniSA Div EASS Research Initiative Support Funding. (2004) with Harry Savelsberg - Developing a community youth policy framework for the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yunkanyatjara Lands.

UniSA Collaborative Research Grant. (2001) with Harry Savelsberg - Experiences and Perceptions of Volunteering of Indigenous and Non English-Speaking Background Peoples -* http://www.unisa.edu.au/sprg/PDF%20Files/Final%20report%20Volunteer%20project.pdf. * This project won the Chancellor’s UniSA Community Service Award for contribution to: collaborative Indigenous and multicultural research.

Industry and Community contract research:

Families SA (2007/8) - Facilitating Development of the Aboriginal Family Care Advisory Model in the Families SA Southern Country Region with Hans Pieters (Flinders University).

Grannies Group, Kera Yerlo (2008) - Evaulative Review of the Substance Misuse and Community Resilience Project, with Dr Pauline Guerin (Flinders University) and Syd Sparrow (David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research).

SA Department for Health (2005) - Strategic Scoping Study of Aboriginal Health – Mid North & Wakefield Regions, with Tim Agius.

SA Deaprtment for Families and Communities (2004) - Review of Aboriginal Alternative Care for the Northern Country Region, with Ann Killen, Tim Agius and Alwyn Chong.

Aboriginal Communities Partnership Collaborative Project and Families SA (2001-2004)- Managing Well: Professional and Organisational Development for Managers and Boards of Governance of Indigenous Agencies. http://www.managingwell.net/

Department for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation (2002/3) - Review of Coroner’s Findings on Deaths from Petrol Sniffing and Report to the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs into Community Perceptions of Capacity Building in Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands of SA, with Christine Maher.

Other related consultancy research work:

Consultancy team member, Social Policy Research Group, for Strategic Review of the Kickstart program for the SA Govt. 2000/2001. This Review involved extensive consultation; national/international literature review; identification of models of good practice/critical success factors; identification of key policy and implementation criteria and completion of a comprehensive Review Report and recommendations.

Consultancy team member, Social Policy Research Group, for SA Govt Feasibility Study for the establishment of a Workforce and Labour Market Advisory Service, 2000/2001. This involved extensive research on a wide variety of models of information support from business case management, emergency support and crisis counselling (to support those facing closure/collapse), industry extension services, on line new IT initiatives to regional development networks and cluster approaches.

Consultancy team member, with the Centre for Research into Education, Equity and Work at the University of South Australia to undertake a National Crime Prevention Training Needs Analysis 1997/8, for the National Campaign Against Violence and Crime and the Anti Crime Strategy of the Commonwealth Attorney General’s Department.

Consultant to Northern Metropolitan Community Health Service providing Policy Development, Research and Documentation (some 80 discrete policy documents) on areas pertaining to Primary Health Care, Employment and Management practices, Occupational Health and Safety issues, Community participation, Health Services for Young People, Women’s Health, Aboriginal Health 1998, mapping links to regional, State and National Primary health Care policy.

Consultant to Adelaide Central Community Health Service providing Policy development; Organisational Development and Research support, 1998, for development of new management structure and policies and procedures to reflect Strategic Planning priorities.

Consultant to National Plan of Action for Women in TAFE 1998, for completion to publication stage of national research and best practice document series Flexible Delivery: Maintaining a Safe Learning and Work Environment.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Social Sciences

• Indigenous enterprise development, organizations, governance, sovereignty and rights
• Human service organizations and management
• Globalization and human welfare; including post-colonialism
• Social enterprise and social capital
• Public policy, politics and power