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Dr Penny Kansiime

Senior Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 3189
Mobile: 0470 213 521
Email: p.kansiime@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8606-4102

Penny is a Senior Lecturer Lecturer and Course Coordinator for the Master of Social Work Qualifying within the School of Arts and Humanities.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Newcastle, 2021.
  • Master of Philosophy, South Africa, 2017.
  • Master in Social Work and Human Rights, Sweden, 2010.
  • Bachelor of Social Work and Social Administration, Uganda, 2007.

Research Outputs

2025

Book Chapters

  • Mugadza, HT., Kansiime, P., Said, S. (2025). “They Call the Spirituality of My Ancestors Madness”: Embracing Spiritually Sensitive Practice in Child Protection while Working with Children of African Heritage and Their Families in Australia. Understanding Spirituality and the Sacred in Social Work Practice: Spirited Conversations (155-163). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003400790-19.
  • Eyaa, S., Ngocha-Chaderopa , NE., Tusasiirwe, S., Kansiime, P., Lucas, Y., Cotter , BA., Britto, KM., Dundov, M. (2025). Higher Education Success Stories for Students From a Refugee Background in Australia. Barriers and Opportunities in Education for Immigrants and Refugees (121-160). IGI Global Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3373-3586-5.ch005.

Journal Articles

  • Tenakwah, ES., Boadu, G., Tenakwah, EJ., Parzakonis, M., Brady, M., Kansiime, P., Said, S., Eyaa, S., Ayilu, R., Radavoi, C., Berman, A. (2025). Assessment in the age of artificial intelligence: Interdisciplinary analysis of ChatGPT response to higher education assessment tasks. Knowledge Management and E-Learning, 17(1), 49 pages. https://doi.org/10.34105/j.kmel.2025.17.001.

2024

Book Chapters

  • Kansiime, P., Tusasiirwe, S., Nabbumba, D. (2024). Sources of Knowledge Transfer between the Global South and the Global North in Social Work Education. Routledge Handbook of African Social Work Education (346-357). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003314349-34.

2023

Book Chapters

  • Nabbumba, D., Kansiime, P., Sharlotte, T. (2023). Ubuntu principles: Unethically ethical? Decolonising social work values and ethics in Social Work practice and research. Ubuntu Philosophy and Decolonising Social Work Fields of Practice in Africa (54-70). Routledge. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003330370.

Journal Articles

2022

Book Chapters

  • Boadu, G., Kansiime, P., Eyaa, S., Said, S. (2022). Culturally Responsive Education: Reflections and Insights for Enhancing International Student Experience in Higher Education.. Handbook of Research on Teaching Strategies for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse International Students (37-60). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8921-2.ch003.
  • Kansiime, P., Said, S., Eyaa, S. (2022). “What Kind of Blackfella Are You Anyway?”: Digital Violence, Intersectional Racism, and Discrimination Against Australian Aboriginals and Black Americans. Handbook of Research on Cyber Approaches to Public Administration and Social Policy (420-443). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3380-5.ch017.

2021

Book Chapters

  • Namisango, F., Eyaa, S., Kansiime, P., Tusasiirwe, S. (2021). Ubuntu in the Diaspora: Its Conservation and Comparison with Other World Views. Understanding Ubuntu for Enhancing Intercultural Communications (228-242). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7947-3.ch018.
  • Tusasiirwe, S., Namisango, F., Kansiime, P., Bulamu, N., Eyaa, S. (2021). Living and Revitalizing Ubuntu: Challenges of Passing on Ubuntu Values to the Younger Generation and Attempted Strategies to Overcome Them. Understanding Ubuntu for Enhancing Intercultural Communications (85-101). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7947-3.ch008.

2018

Journal Articles

  • Kansiime, P., Van Der Westhuizen, C., Kagee, A. (2018). Barriers and facilitators to physical and mental health help-seeking among Congolese male refugee survivors of conflict-related sexual violence living in Kampala. Journal of Practice Teaching and Learning, 19(3), 152-173. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1921/swssr.v19i3.1196.

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