Jay Marlowe

Speaker

Jay has worked as a part time lecturer within the Department of Social Work and Social Policy at Flinders University for three years prior to taking his post with The University of Auckland. During this time, he also worked as a social worker at the Loss and Grief Centre which provides counselling (individual, family and group) and community outreach services. Before submitting his PhD, he was a visiting fellow with the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. Jay has worked in a number of international settings that includes working for over three years in wilderness programs with adjudicated youths in the United States. He has also worked as a director of a Guatemalan organisation called Quetzaltrekkers that supported a school known as the Escuela de la Calle (School of the Streets) that provided free education to children from low income backgrounds. This organisation also supported homeless children living there by providing shelter, food, family outreach services and a program to counteract the devastating effects of sniffing glue. He has also worked on a community development initiative with a remote indigenous community in Ecuador. Selected Publications * Marlowe, J. (2010, in press) ‘Beyond the Discourse of Trauma: Shifting the Focus on Sudanese Refugees’, Journal of Refugee Studies. * Marlowe, J. (2010, in press) ‘Responding to Trauma from Forced Migration and Resettlement: Rethinking perspectives on Sudanese Refugees’, 19th Annual- The Mental Health Services Conference of Australia and New Zealand, Perth, Sept 1-4. * Irizarry, I. & Marlowe, J. (2010) ‘Beyond Mere Presence: Making Diversity Work’, Social Work Education: The International Journal, 29 (1), p. 96-107