Ndungi Wa Mungai

Teaching and Research Staff

Dr Ndungi Wa Mungai

Senior Lecturer in Social Work
Wagga Wagga
Building 26 Room 219

Ndungi is a senior lecturer in Social work and has been at CSU since February 2010. He completed his PhD in 2011 at Deakin University, Victoria, titled: The Health and Well-being of Young Sudanese Men in Melbourne. Ndungi has also completed a BSc (agr.) (University of Nairobi); M Agr. Studies (University of Melbourne); Bachelor of Social Work (University of Melbourne), Master of Social Work (RMIT University, Melbourne) and Graduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (Charles Sturt University). Before joining CSU Ndungi worked in a variety of social work setting including research, telephone relationship counselling for men, counsellor/advocate in torture and trauma, caseworker for asylum seekers, housing support worker, foster care field worker and social worker at Centrelink (locum position).

Teaching

  • Social work theory and practice
  • Human rights
  • Social work research methods
  • Fields of social work practice

Supervision

Ndungi supervises all levels of postgraduate students including Honours, Masters, DSW and PhD.

Current Higher Degree by Research (HDR) projects:

  • The Uganda HIV Response: Results and lessons for current and future programs (PhD)
  • Stepmothers' Life Stories and Self Identity (DSW)

Completed HDR Programs

  • Symbolic ethnicity: A Scottish festival case study (MA)
  • Experience of community spirit in flood recovery: Exploring the opportunities for community development (PhD)

External Examiner

Ndungi is an external examiner (Masters and PhD) for the following universities:

  • Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
  • Fort Hare University, South Africa
  • Griffith University
  • RMIT University

Current Research Projects

  • Responding to food security/insecurity Wagga District New South Wales ( CSU Community University Partnership grant)
  • Emerging ageing and age-related issues amongst migrant population in regional Australia( CSU Community University Partnership grant)