Nada Eltaiba

Mental Health

Culture

Religion 

Teaching Social Work

Ethics

Refugee mental health 

Nada Eltaiba is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the School of Allied Health. Before to that, Nada was a senior lecturer at Social Work and Social Policy, Currently, Nada is employed as an associate professor at German Jordanian University in Jordan.

Nada's research interests incorporate mental health, cross-cultural practice, religion and spirituality. She has also conducted some research in teaching social work, ethics and narrative therapy.

Nada has extensive experience as a social work practitioner in both health and community settings in Australia and overseas.

Teaching is an area that Nada is passionate about. For Nada, teaching in social work programs is an opportunity to share knowledge and experiences. It is the starting point for developing a professional social work identity.

 Nada has taught in several social work programs in Australia and overseas; the University of Western Australia, Curtin University, Al-Balqa University in Jordan, Qatar University and Doha Institute for Graduate research in Qatar.

“My teaching aspiration is to support social work students to be competent practitioners who appreciate the value of collaboration and who are open to learning” 

2017-present: (WISH) World Innovation Summit for Health & (WEYAK) Mental Health Association. Research Project Titled:  Mental Health Issues amongst Adolescents in Qatar and pathways to improvement,  ($50.000). 

2012  Qatar University internal grant. Research Project Title: Ethics and social work ($20,000)

2010   Start Up grants Qatar University. Research Project Title: inpatient views on mental health services in Qatar. ($7,000).

2010   Research Development Award, The University or Western Australia, Australia, Research Project Title: in patient views about mental health services, ($5,893).

2008–2009 Equity and Diversity grant, The University or Western Australia, Australia, Research Project Title:Remove the barriers and expanding the horizon, ($3,000).

 Research Project unfunded:

2017- on going   Research Project Titled:  Spirituality and Religion in the practice of Social work Joint research with Professor Maria Harries, The University of Western Australia. 

2015- 2018 Research Project Titled:  The effectiveness of field education in social work education: A student perspective, Joined research with Dr. Abdou Ndoye Northern Kentucky University.

2013-2015               Guest editor: “Islam and social work” for International Social Work Journal