Joselynn Baltra-Ulloa

Joselynn Baltra-Ulloa (Jos), is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Tasmania. Originally from Chile, she came to Australia as a refugee and has dedicated her professional life to working with people of refugee background. Her work and research passions relate to decolonising social work, transformative disruptive social innovation, sustainability, regenerative social work practice and the scholarship of decolonising teaching and learning. She is amongst a group of Indigenous and First Nations scholars across the globe that conducts research with a decolonisation agenda and with a focus on learning from Southern knowledges. She is involved in community-based projects aimed at building capacity for decolonisation, exploring how a decolonising social work can play a key role in regenerative practices that enable the sustainable interbeing of Humans and Nature. She serves the community via focused interdisciplinary collaborations, facilitating cross-institutional and cross-cultural projects.