Dr. Kathryn Daley
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College: School of GUSS
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Department: School of GUSS
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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kathryn.daley@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0003-4295-0533
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Industry Projects
- Collaborative projects
- Membership of an advisory committee
- Media enquiries
About
Dr Kathryn Daley is a Senior Lecturer in Youth Work and Youth Studies and Associate Director of the Social Equity Research Centre (SERC) where she is also the co-theme lead of the Homelessness and Housing Insecurity research program with Dr Patrick O'Keeffe.
Kathryn was trained in psychology and social science. She is an academic with a background as a practitioner, having worked in direct service provision and in research and policy in the non-for-profit sector. Her work is focused on improving the wellbeing of people living on the margins, particularly children and young people.
Kathryn enjoys teaching the next generation of youth workers and other welfare professionals, and teaches courses in alcohol and other drug interventions, advanced youth work practice, youth work ethics, and a course on critical understandings of youth 'wellbeing'. She is a qualified and experienced movement teacher and practitioner (Dance, Yoga, & Pilates) and is increasingly transferring these skills to youth work students to enable them to teach self-regulation and mindfulness strategies to young people experiencing complex trauma.
Kathryn has held various leadership roles in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, including as manager of the Research Training Unit, Program Manager of the Bachelor of Social Science (Honours), Program Manager of the Bachelor of Youth Work and Youth Studies and member of both the Human Research Ethics Committee and the College Human Ethics Advisory Network.
Dr Daley is heavily involved in the praxis between research and industry. She is a board member of both Youth Workers Australia and also the Professional Association of Lecturers in Youth and Community Work (Australia). She has a ministerial appointment to the Women's Correctional Services Advisory Committee, and on the working advisory group for the update to the Victorian Code of Youth Work Ethics. Kathyn is a member of the forensic mental health services recommisssioning project and has provided consultation for the development of the the Victorian Youth AOD Strategy (2025-2035). She is a member of the Victorian Youth Affairs Council and also the Australian Youth Affairs Coalition.
In 2024 Daley was awarded the RMIT Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Impact and Engagement (Early Career Researcher).
UN sustainable development goals
- 1 No Poverty
- 3 Good Health and Well Being
- 5 Gender Equality
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
Degrees
- Bachelor Degree (Honours) Level, Studies in Human Society
- Unknown
- Australia
- 2008
- Bachelor Degree (Pass) Level, Studies in Human Society
- Unknown
- Australia
- 2007
- Doctorate Research, Studies in Human Society
- Unknown
- Australia
- 2015
Supervisor projects
- An Ethnographic Study of Two Mixed Tenure Sites in Melbourne
- 4 Jul 2024
- Developing An Intersectional Feminist Trauma- And Violence-Informed Practice Framework for Mental Health Services For Women In Sex Work
- 2 Jun 2021
- Men Feeling Differently: Masculinity, Normativity, and the Prevention of Gendered Violence
- 13 Mar 2020
- At the Borders: Migrant Women's Experiences of Family Violence and Help-Seeking in Australia
- 1 Mar 2017
Teaching interests
Kathryn enjoys teaching the next generation of youth workers and other welfare professionals, and teaches courses in alcohol and other drug interventions, advanced youth work practice, youth work ethics, and a course on critical understandings of youth ‘wellbeing’. Kathryn also has extensive experience teaching research design and methods from undergraduate through to PhD.
She is a qualified and experienced movement teacher and practitioner (Dance, Yoga and Pilates) and is incresingly transferring these skills to youth work students to enable them to teach self-regulation and mindfulness strategies to young people experiencing complex trauma.
Research interests
Kathryn’s current work is focused on:
- Patterns of service use in homelessness services;
- Predictive patterns of Adverse Childhood Experience;
- Research and practice ethics,
- Good practice guidelines for youth workers applying a trauma-informed approach.
She has previously focused on gender, substance abuse and self-injury, among other areas.
