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Dr

Margaret Kertesz

Post Doctoral Research Fellow
out of home care
Intersection between DFV and Child Protection
Child Protection
program evaluation
whole of family approaches
social work
social sciences
out-of-home care
foster care
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Dr

Margaret Kertesz

 
Division
Medicine, Dentistry And Health Sciences
 
Primary Interest
Domestic and Family Violence
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Dr

Margaret Kertesz

 

Dr Margaret Kertesz is a senior research fellow in the Department of Social Work. With a background in both historical research and social work, she has worked in out-of-home care services and also spent some years as a researcher in the Child and Family Welfare sector.

Over the last 10 years, she has worked closely with government and community sectors on a range of applied research, with an emphasis on guiding and improving practice in the areas of Child Protection, out-of-home care, records creation and domestic and family violence.

2009-2012: Who Am I? interdisciplinary action research project - a project aimed at improving record-keeping practices within the out-of-home care services field.

2013: Working in the Cloud - exploratory, interdisciplinary research to investigate the issues involved in developing a safe digital storage space for the
personal documents of children in out-of-home care.

2014-17: kContact - improving contact between children in out-of-home care and their birth parents: research to develop and trial a contact intervention.

2017: Evaluation of the Mothers in Mind group program for women and young children who have left violent situations.

2017-18: Development of a Family Violence practice model for Victorian Child Protection services.

2018 - Continuing evaluation - the Children and Mothers in Mind group program for women and young children who have left violent situations.

Projects

Displaying the 7 most recent projects by Margaret Kertesz.

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Women Who Use Force Agency Collaborative Agreement - Extension

2019 - 2020
Active
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Safe And Together Addressing Complexity Focusing On Children

2019 - 2021
Active
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Women Who Use Force Agency Collaborative Agreement

2019 - 2019
Completed
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Women Who Use Force Subcontract With Curtin Univ.

2018 - 2019
Completed
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Cmim Evaluation

2018 - 2019
Completed
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Women Who Use Force Agency Collaborative Agreement

2018 - 2019
Completed
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2018-2180 Perpetrator Package - Female Perpetrators

2018 - 2019
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

6

Research Contracts

1

Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 14 most recent scholarly works by Margaret Kertesz.

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Shifting practice in domestic violence: child protection workers partnering with mothers

Cathy Humphreys, Margaret Kertesz, Lucy Healey, David Mandel

Book Chapter  |  2019

This book presents new interdisciplinary and intersectional research about women as mothers, highlighting that alternative account..

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Working with women who use force: a feasibility study protocol of the Positive ( ) SHIFT group work programme in Australia

Margaret Kertesz, Cathy Humphreys, Lisa Young Larance, Dave Vicary, Anneliese Spiteri-Staines, Georgia Ovenden

Journal article  |  2019  |  BMJ Open

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Who Makes Decisions for Vulnerable Young People? Shifting Sands and Murky Waters

Margaret Kertesz, Merle Spriggs, Cathy Humphreys

Journal article  |  2018  |  Australian Social Work

This paper discusses the existing guidance in Australian legislative and regulatory frameworks to inform the process of young peop..

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Interventions to improve supervised contact visits between children in out of home care and their parents: a systematic review

Tracey Bullen, Stephanie Taplin, Morag McArthur, Cathy Humphreys, Margaret Kertesz

Journal article  |  2017  |  Child & Family Social Work

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KContact, an enhanced intervention for contact between children in out-of-home care and their parents: protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

Stephanie Taplin, Tracey Bullen, Morag McArthur, Cathy Humphreys, Margaret Kertesz, Timothy Dobbins

Journal article  |  2015  |  BMC Public Health

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Making Records Meaningful: Creating an Identity Resource for Young People in Care

Cathy Humphreys, Margaret Kertesz

Journal article  |  2015  |  Australian Social Work

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Literature review on supervised contact between children in out-of-home care and their parents

T Bullen, S Taplin, M Kertesz, C Humphreys, M McArthur

Report  |  2015

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Improving the Archiving of Records in the Out-of-home Care Sector

Cathy Humphreys, Gavan McCarthy, Melissa Dowling, Margaret Kertesz, Rachel Tropea

Journal article  |  2014  |  Australian Social Work

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Evidence review: Analysis of the evidence for out-of-home care

A Shlonsky, MA Kertesz, M Macvean, Z Petrovic, B Devine, J Falkiner, F D’Esposito, R Mildon

Report  |  2013

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‘Putting the Heart Back into the Record’: Personal Records to Support Young People in Care

C Humphreys, M Kertesz

Journal article  |  2012  |  Adoption and Fostering

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Reformulating current recordkeeping practices in out-of-home care: recognising the centrality of the archive

Margaret Kertesz, Cathy Humphreys, Cathy Carnovale

Journal article  |  2012  |  Archives and Manuscripts

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To speak for themselves: Mass-Observation's women's wartime diaries

M Kertesz

Journal article  |  1993  |  Feminist Praxis

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The enemy british images of the german people during the second world war

M Kertesz

Journal article  |  1993  |  German History

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To speak for themselves: Mass-Observation’s women’s wartime diaries

M Kertesz

Book Chapter  |  1993

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Social Work
Community Service (excl. Work)
Historical Studies
Health and Support Services
Other Medical and Health Sciences
Understanding Past Societies
Expanding Knowledge
Specific Population Health (excl. Indigenous Health)

Credentials

Positions

Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Social Work

Member

Australian Association of Social Workers

Education

Bachelor of Social Work

Monash University

Doctorate in History

University of Sussex

Master of Arts (History)

University of Sussex

Bachelor of Arts (History & German)

Monash University

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