Ronnie Egan

Dr Ronnie Egan is Associate Professor of Field Education in Social Work at RMIT University. She has specialised in research about supervision,  practice for social workers and students and partnerships between the community and universities and published widely in these areas. She has extensive and active networks in  the human service sector and regularly called on to consult on matters of partnerships, workforce and gradaute  development, supervsion and social work practice. Her relationships with the field span her career as a practitioner and academic and this has enabled the development of innovative ways of understanding and facilitating the nexus between universities and the community. Her reputation for the building and facilitating of sustained linkages across industry, community and universities within the human service sector is recognised locally, nationally and internationally. Her contribution to  knowledge, approaches and research about partnerships is central in the preparation and practice of social work students and staff in human services  and has  strengthened opportunities between industry and university. Ronnie has co edited four books, Practice skills in social work and welfare (2004, 2009, 2016 and 2023); Partnerships with the Community: Human service agencies and field education throughout the Covid-19 pandemic (2022); Challenges, Opportunities and Innovations in Social Work Field Education (2021)  and Partnerships with the community: Forty-five years of Field Education at RMIT (2018).