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Philip Mendes

Professor, Department of Social Work, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
philip.mendes@monash.edu

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Core expertise

Social work

Biography

Philip teaches social policy and community development, and is the director of the Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit in the Department of Social Work. His key research areas include young people transitioning from out-home-care, income support including compulsory income management, social workers and policy practice, illicit drugs policy, Indigenous social policy, and Jewish community responses to institutional child sexual abuse.