Although Jim Ife retired as a Professor of Human Rights Education and Head of the Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia in early 2006, he remains actively engaged in academic work and has an on-going relation with the Centre. He previously held chairs in Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Western Australia, and at Curtin University. His research and teaching interests have been in community development, social policy and human rights.
Jim Ife has also been active in various community activities and activism. He was President of Amnesty International Australia in the mid 1990s, Secretary of the Human Rights Commission of the International Federation of Social Workers, and an accredited international observer at the independence ballot in East Timor in 1999.
Publications
- Community Development: Community-Based Alternatives in an Age of Globalisation 3rd Edition 2006 (with Frank Tesoriero). Pearson.
- Rethinking Social Work: Towards Critical Practice 1997, Longman, MelbourneHuman Rights from Below: Community development and Human Rights In Preparation, Cambridge University Press (to be published in 2008)
- with L. Fiske “Human Rights and Community” International Social Work Vol 49, No 3, May 2006, 297-308
- “Human Rights, Global Citizenship and Community Development” Canadian Review of Social Policy No 49-50 (double issue), 2002, 233-240
- “Community Development in the Global Environment: Holistic and Sustainable Responses” invited chapter in Chandraratna, D. (ed); Essays on Social Development and Welfare in Sri Lanka, National Institute of Social Development, Colombo, 2002
- “Local and Global Practice: Relocating Social Work as a Human Rights Profession in the New Global Order” European Journal of Social Work Vol 4, No 1, 2001, 5-15
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