Dr Emma Rees
Social Worker Practitioner
Dr Emma Rees is an experienced social work practitioner, early?career researcher, and educator with expertise in child protection, child sexual abuse and exploitation, and practice development across statutory, academic, and community settings.
She has over a decade of experience in statutory child protection, including leadership roles within Queensland's child protection system. Emma is an emerging social work educator with international experience as a Senior Lecturer in the UK and currently works as a project officer for Project Paradigm, sessional academic and external supervisor supporting social work students.
Emma has authored academic publications arising from her doctoral research and recent work as a research assistant on the Disrupting Child Sexual Exploitation (DICE) project, which examined multi-agency responses to perpetrators who exploit children in residential care.
Her work focuses on bridging research, education, and practice through community-driven approaches and research co-designed with individuals who bring lived experience, to strengthen ethical, effective child sexual abuse prevention and support sustainable change.