Dr Samantha Lukey

Biography

Dr Lukey has held frontline and leadership roles in the business sector, NSW Government and non-government agencies and higher education. Dr Lukey brings experience and knowledge in business and not for profit governance, mental health, trauma informed practice, clinical supervision and child and family wellbeing. She practices from the perspective of centring ethics in Social Work practice, addressing power in the social context and exploring sustainability in this work.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Social Work (WSU, 1999)

Graduate Certificate in Health Leadership and Management (UOW, 2012)

Vocational Graduate Certificate in Developmental Trauma (ACF, 2014)

PhD (Social Work, UOW, 2023)

Teaching Areas

Dr Lukey teaches across the UNE Social Work Program at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. She is focussed on the integration and application of theory to practice for Social Work students working alongside vulnerable and marginalised people and communities. Her special interest is within the child and family wellbeing context with a focus on trauma informed practice. She is interested in the how trauma informed practice is defined and implemented within services. She is particularly interested in the interface between being a clinician working in a trauma responsive context and collaborating within systems where trauma informed practice is still to be understood. She is keenly interested in decolonising Social Work practice and focuses on inspiring students to consider their own decolonising practices towards justice doing in the face of continued colonial oppression.

She is the unit coordinator for the following units;

• HSSW 301/301B and 401/401B: Social Work Direct Practice Skills
• HSSW 111, 222, 333, 444 (BSW) & HSSW 555, 655 (MSWQ) Social Work in Practice (SWiP)

Primary Research Area/s

• Aboriginal children in Out of Home Care; • The impacts of cumulative natural disasters on First Nations communities; • Aboriginal practitioners’ experiences of practice in Aboriginal Out of Home Care; • Ally ship in decolonising practice

Research Interests

Dr Lukey is a qualitative researcher who works within constructivist and interpretivist paradigms. She is interested in participatory action research and collaborative enquiry approaches that enable opportunity for those experiencing complex issues to participate in the analysis of the problems and develop solutions within their own context.

Publications

Papers

Lukey, S., Keevers, L., Trueman, S; Frith, F; Chandler, P; Rawiri-Cruse, R; Henry, W; Townsend, M. (2023). The Social and Emotional Wellbeing Needs of Aboriginal Staff in Out of Home Care: Walking in Two Worlds. Child Abuse & Neglect (under review).

Lukey, S., Keevers, L., Toole-Anstey, C., Stewart, J., Dodd, S., & MacLeod, L. (2022). Practices and programmes that enhance successful transition and participation in high school for Indigenous young people: a systematic review. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 1-21.

Yerbury, R. M., & Lukey, S. J. (2021). Human–animal interactions: Expressions of wellbeing through a “nature language”. Animals, 11(4), 950.

Conference papers and presentations

Lukey, S and Frith, F (2022). ‘Cocooning in Culture’ exploring the development and implementation of a culturally situated trauma informed approach within an Aboriginal community-controlled permanency support program. International Childhood Trauma Conference, Melbourne.

Lukey, S and Frith, F (2021). ‘Cocooning in Culture’ exploring the development and implementation of a culturally situated trauma informed approach within an Aboriginal community-controlled permanency support program. ANZSWER 2021 Symposium New Voices in Social Work Research.

Lukey, S and Toole-Anstey, C (2022). Practices and programmes that enhance successful transition and participation in high school for Indigenous young people: a systematic review. [Presentation Illawarra Education Network]

Lukey, S (2022). Practices and programmes that enhance successful transition and participation in high school for Indigenous young people: a systematic review. [Presentation UNSW]

Lukey, S., Keevers, L., Toole-Anstey, C., Stewart, J., Dodd, S., & MacLeod, L. (2022). Practices and programmes that enhance successful transition and participation in high school for Indigenous young people: a systematic review. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 1-21.

Lukey, S. Trauma Informed Practice [Presentation UOW Social Work Sunset Series].

Yerbury, R. M., & Lukey, S. J. (2021). Human–Animal Interactions: Expressions of Wellbeing through a “Nature Language”. Animals, 11(4), 950.

Lukey, S and Gladwin, N. (2018). ‘The Superhero project- walking the talk’, paper presented

at the Doing schools Differently conference, 29^th-29^th June, Gold Coast.

Lukey, S. (2016) ‘The Family Keeps the Score’ paper presented at the International Childhood Trauma Conference, 6^th-10^th June, Melbourne.

Downes,L. and Lukey, S. (2011). ‘Identifying young carers in the classroom’ paper presented at the Carers NSW  Biennial Conference Changing Society; Changing Needs - new directions in carer support, Thursday 17th -18th March, Sydney.

Industry Reports and Evaluations

Lukey, S., Keevers, L., Townsend, M., Chandler, P., Henry, W., Rawari, R., Trueman, S., Frith, F., Kent, M. Cocooning in Culture: Exploring the development and implementation of a culturally- situated trauma-informed approach within an Aboriginal community controlled out of home care program. Illawarra Aboriginal Corporation and University of Wollongong. Wollongong. NSW

Lukey, S. (2018). Barnardos South Coast Communities for Children Healthy Cities TALK program report.

Edwards, K and Lukey, S. (2016). South Coast Child Wellbeing Network Conference evaluation.

Barker, S and Lukey, S. (2015). Bringing Up Great Kids Parenting Program Outcomes Evaluation.

Lukey, S and O’Neill, B. (2011). The needs of young carers in schools- school counsellors understandings. Evaluation Report.

Brown, J, Lukey S and Paul, K. (2010). Referral Pathways for children and young people with mental health concerns, Evaluation Report.

Clinical Skills and Experience

Dr Lukey has worked clinically in a range of roles providing clinical supervision to Social Workers and Social Work students. She is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and has provided counselling services to women and children with a focus on complex developmental trauma related to domestic violence and sexual abuse.

Memberships

AASW

Absec

Barnardos Communities for Children Shellharbour Consultative Committee

South Coast Child Wellbeing Network

External Profiles

• Google Scholar Profile
• ORCid Profile