معرفی
Lobna Yassine is an academic at The University of Sydney, focusing on the intersection of racism with social policies and practices in youth justice, child protection, and social work education. Her research interrogates racialized risk discourses, decolonizing methodologies, and post-structuralist critiques of institutional systems. She collaborates on projects like the FASS COVID Kick Start Fund and supervises research students addressing multiculturalism in mental health and child protection policies.
Research interests include: Juvenile penality, risk assessment frameworks, critical race studies, Foucault's governmentality theories, and anti-racist social work education. Her work emphasizes dismantling embedded whiteness in policy and practice.
Selected awards:
- Postgraduate Scholarship, Carolyn Allport (2016)
- Postgraduate Scholarship, Katherine Ogilvie (2014)
Recent publications analyze risk assessment tools in youth justice, cultural competency in child protection, and epistemic resistance in social work pedagogy. Her collaborations with scholars like Tseris and Briskman highlight systemic inequities in human services.
