Utilizing the art of storytelling to illuminate the lived experience of individuals, families, communities, and workplaces.
Cripping Sexuality: A Rebellion in Photos is a student led installation for the university subject WELF3022: Sex and Disability, taught by Dr. George Turner. The show brings together artifacts curated by the students each semester. Presenting the nuances and complexities within the intersection of disability and sexuality, students blend art, scholarship, and advocacy to examine the layered tension surrounding this often challenging and confronting topic. Students highlight their learning throughout the semester through combined oral and written expression recognizing that the academy can privilege certain types of learning and how that learning is conveyed.
Cripping Sexuality Gallery
Social Work Research Placement
Our placement was a research-based social work placement at Western Sydney University under the supervision of Dr George Turner. Together, we explored sexuality, sexual health and sexual wellbeing within social work practice. We contributed to research activities, literature reviews, qualitative data analysis, educational resources, video production and social media content. Through this shared experience, we developed our research, communication, teamwork and digital engagement skills while learning how social workers can create safe, inclusive and non-judgemental conversations about sexuality and sexual wellbeing.
Teaching Philosophy
Grounded in a vision to lead in the classroom, I value a student’s voice, create brave spaces, mediate sensitive discussions, invoke alternative perspectives, facilitate experiential learning, and design an equitable and inclusive learning environment.
Teaching Approach
Fundamentally, I approach learning as a student’s exploration of their values, beliefs and ideas. I ask students to examine old messages locked away behind forgotten doorways while exploring new doors of learning.
Courses Taught
- Social Work and Health
- Practice Skills
- Sex and Disability
- Human Sexuality
- Psychopathology/ Diagnosing
- Multi-cultural Practice
Sample Teaching
Turner, G. W. (Invited Speaker). (2021). Whats Sex Got To Do With Social Work. Australian College of Applied Psychology (ACAP) Field Education team as part of the NSW Combined Universities Field Education Group (CUFEG) and the Victorian Universities Field Education Network (VUFEN). Webinar, Sydney AU.
Sample Teaching - September 2024
Sept 2024 Lunch & Learn: Social Work and Human Sexuality: Sexual Literacy as practice Strategy