Margareta Windisch

Margareta is a lecturer at RMIT and coordinates the Bachelor of Social Work Field Education program. She is responsible for the educational aspects of the field education experiences and teaches Integrated Learning practice seminars. She is a qualified social worker and brings her extensive experience in sexual assault counselling and feminist reproductive rights advocacy to her academic position. Margareta's current work is underpinned by community development and social activism paradigms, with a particularly focus on climate justice and women’s rights. Margareta's field education research has focused on how RMIT social work managed the COVID19 crises in relation to field education. Her passion for eco-social work is evident in her PhD research which explores the nexus between gender and climate change, specifically looking at older women's experience of heatwaves.