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Dr Phillipa Evans

Dr Phillipa Evans

Senior Lecturer

PhD

Master of Social Work

Masters of Criminology

Bachelor of Social Work

Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Social Sciences

Dr Phillipa Evans is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW. Dr Evans worked for over 18 years’ as a social worker in clinical, policy and academic roles across a variety of contexts including youth justice, child protection and mental health. Dr Evans successfully obtained her PhD examining effective methods of challenging pro-criminal attitudes and behaviours of justice involved young people. Dr Evans is currently working on an ARC linkage grant examining the effectiveness of a training and coaching program for youth justice custodial staff. This study aims to increase the interpersonal and behaviour management skills of youth justice staff through specialist training, coaching and supervision.

Phone
(02) 9065 3563
E-mail
p.evans@unsw.edu.au
Location
Room 115 Morven Brown Building
  • Book Chapters | 2019
    Evans P; Pereria C, 2019, ''Five-Minute Interventions' in prison: rehabilitative conversations with offenders', in The Routledge Companion to Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice, Taylor & Francis Group, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unsw/detail.action?docID=5896150#
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Pereria C; Evans P, 2019, '‘Five-Minute Interventions’ in prison', in The Routledge Companion to Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice, Routledge, pp. 444 - 452, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315102832-40
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Trotter C; Evans P, 2019, 'Working with young people in prison', in The Routledge Companion to Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 766 - 775, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unsw/detail.action?docID=5896150#
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Evans P, 2012, 'Supervision skills in juvenile justice', in Offender Supervision New Directions in Theory, Research and Practice, Routledge
    Book Chapters | 2012
    2012, 'Supervision skills in juvenile justice', in Offender Supervision, Willan, pp. 156 - 178, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203832974-16
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Trotter C; Evans P; Powers T, 2024, 'Improving Social Climate In Youth Detention', International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 68, pp. 353 - 369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X221102852
    Journal articles | 2023
    Trotter C; Evans P, 2023, 'Developing evidence based practice skills in youth justice', European Journal of Probation, 15, pp. 147 - 161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20662203231185088
    Journal articles | 2020
    Trotter C; Evans P; Baidawi S, 2020, 'Collaborative Family Work in Youth Justice', Australian Social Work, 73, pp. 267 - 279, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2019.1618886
    Journal articles | 2017
    Trotter C; Evans P; Baidawi S, 2017, 'The Effectiveness of Challenging Skills in Work with Young Offenders', International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 61, pp. 397 - 412, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X15596728
    Journal articles | 2015
    Flynn C; Bartlet T; Arias P; Evans P; Burgess A, 2015, 'Responding to children when their parents are incarcerated: exploring the responses in Victoria and New South Wales, Australia', Law Context: A Socio-Legal journal
    Journal articles | 2015
    Trotter C; Baidawi S; Evans P, 2015, 'Good Practice in Community-based Supervision of Aboriginal Youth Offenders', Australian Social Work, 68, pp. 5 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2014.940359
    Journal articles | 2012
    Evans P, 2012, 'The effectiveness of family and relationship therapy: A review of the literature', Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia
    Journal articles | 2012
    Trotter C; Evans P, 2012, 'An analysis of supervision skills in youth probation', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 45, pp. 255 - 273, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004865812443678
  • Reports | 2018
    Trotter C; Evans P; Oliaro L; Cooper J, 2018, Evaluation of the pilot integration of Filial Therapy into Primary Schools Final report
    Theses / Dissertations | 2017
    Evans P, 2017, Challenging pro-criminal attitudes and behaviours of juvenile offenders, Monash University
    Reports | 2017
    Trotter C; Evans P; Flynn C; Pereria C; Powell C, 2017, Interviews with court advice and prosecution service
    Reports | 2017
    Trotter C; Evans P; Oliaro L, 2017, Evaluation of Eternity Aid, Monash University Criminal Justice Research Consortium, https://research.monash.edu/en/publications/evaluation-of-eternity-aid
    Reports | 2017
    Trotter C; Evans P; Sheehan R; Pereria C; Powell C, 2017, Observation study of Administration of general risk assessment tools used in Corrections Victoria
    Reports | 2012
    Trotter C; Evans P, 2012, Review of the change company ‘Interactive Offender Workbooks'
    Reports | 2009
    Trotter C; Evans P, 2009, Evaluation of Comprehensive Assessment Form (CAF)