Amelia Wheeler

Amelia Wheeler is a Lecturer in Social Work at the School of Allied Health, Faculty of Health Sciences. Her research focuses on intersections of gender, race, and power in social work practice, particularly addressing child sexual abuse through profeminist frameworks and deconstructing whiteness in helping professions.

Her work critiques systemic inequities in social work education and practice, emphasizing anti-racist and feminist approaches. Recent publications include contributions to The Routledge International Handbook of Feminisms in Social Work (2024) and Handbook of Critical Whiteness (2023).

She has explored topics such as heteropatriarchal influences on men’s victim-survivor experiences and institutional whiteness in social service sectors. No awards or grants are explicitly listed in the provided texts.