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Overview

Mel Gray is affiliated with the University of Newcastle Australia in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in the social sciences and health professions. Their scholarly work primarily focuses on social work education and practice, homelessness and social issues, youth education and societal dynamics, rural development and sustainability, healthcare innovation and challenges, mental health and patient involvement, as well as social policy and reform studies.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Progress of the social service professions in South Africa's developmental social welfare system: Social work, and child and youth care work (2022) in the International Journal of Social Welfare
  • A critical review of Chinese and international social work: Walking a tightrope between local and global standards (2021) in International Social Work
  • Carving a Professional Identity for Chinese Social Work Shaped by Universalisation, Indigenisation, and Culturalism (2023) in The British Journal of Social Work
  • Enhancing the relevance of social work education in Nigeria (2022) in The British Journal of Social Work
  • Advancing scholarship on rural social work in China: published researchers' perspectives (2024) in Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development

Mel Gray frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Qian Meng
  • Solomon Amadasun
  • Lieve Bradt
  • Griet Roets
  • Antoinette Lombard

Their publications often appear in prominent social work and social welfare journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • International Social Work
  • The British Journal of Social Work
  • Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work
  • International Journal of Social Welfare
  • Social Development Issues

The main fields of study for Mel Gray's research encompass social sciences and health professions. Their work within subfields covers public administration, general health professions, sociology and political science, education, and general agricultural and biological sciences.

Best Publications

  • The quest for a universal social work: some issues and implications

    Mel Gray;Jan Fook

  • Dilemmas of international social work: paradoxical processes in indigenisation, universalism and imperialism

    Mel Gray

  • Environmental Social Work

    Mel Gray;John Coates;Tiani Hetherington

  • Evidence-based Social Work: A Critical Stance

    Mel M Gray;Deborah Plath;Stephen A Webb

  • An ‘Ecospiritual’ Perspective: Finally, a Place for Indigenous Approaches

    John Coates;Mel Gray;Tiani Hetherington

  • Implementing Evidence-Based Practice: A Review of the Empirical Research Literature

    Mel M Gray;Elyssa Joy;Deborah Plath;Stephen A Webb

  • Social work : theories and methods

    Mel Gray;Stephen A. Webb

  • Indigenous Social Work around the World: Towards Culturally Relevant Education and Practice

    Mel Gray;John Coates;Michael Yellow Bird

  • Social enterprise: is it the business of social work?

    Mel Gray;Karen Healy;Penny Crofts

  • Back to basics : a critique of the strengths perspective in social work

    Mel Gray

  • The New Politics of Social Work

    Mel Gray;Stephen A. Webb

  • The progress of social development in South Africa

    Mel Gray

  • ‘Indigenization’ and knowledge development: Extending the debate

    Mel Gray;John Coates

  • Factors that influence the professional resilience of occupational therapists in mental health practice.

    Samantha E. Ashby;Susan Ryan;Mel Gray;Carole James

  • Decolonizing Social Work

    John Coates;Tiani Hetherington;Mel Gray

  • Moral Sources and Emergent Ethical Theories in Social Work

    Mel Gray

  • Pursuing good practice? The limits of evidence-based practice

    Mel Gray;Catherine Mcdonald

  • An integrated and experience-based approach to social work education: The Newcastle model

    Jill Gibbons;Mel Gray

  • Environmental ethics for social work: Social work's responsibility to the non-human world

    Mel Gray;John Coates

  • The environment and social work: An overview and introduction

    John Coates;Mel Gray

  • Viewing Spirituality in Social Work through the Lens of Contemporary Social Theory

    Mel Gray

  • The SAGE Handbook of Social Work

    Mel Gray;Stephen A. Webb;James Midgley

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Fook
Jan Fook Northumbria University

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