Susan Patricia Kemp

Susan Patricia Kemp is a New Zealand social work academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Auckland.

Academic career

After a 1994 PhD titled 'social work and systems of knowledge : the concept of environment in social casework theory' at the Columbia University, Kemp moved to the University of Washington rising to professor, before returning to her New Zealand roots at the University of Auckland, also as professor.

Selected works

• Kemp, Susan Patricia, and Paula S. Nurius. "Preparing emerging doctoral scholars for transdisciplinary research: A developmental approach." Journal of teaching in social work 35, no. 1-2 (2015): 131-150.
• Kemp, Susan Patricia. "Social work and systems of knowledge: The concept of environment in social casework theory, 1900-1983." (1995): 1694-1694.
• Kemp, Susan P., Maureen O. Marcenko, Kimberly Hoagwood, and William Vesneski. "Engaging parents in child welfare services: Bridging family needs and child welfare mandates." Child welfare 88, no. 1 (2009): 101-126.
• Kemp, Susan P., James K. Whittaker, and Elizabeth M. Tracy. Person-environment practice: The social ecology of interpersonal helping. Transaction Publishers, 1997.
• Sutton, Sharon Egretta, and Susan P. Kemp. "Children as partners in neighborhood placemaking: lessons from intergenerational design charrettes." Journal of Environmental Psychology 22, no. 1-2 (2002): 171-189.
• Kemp, Susan P., and Jami M. Bodonyi. "Infants who stay in foster care: Child characteristics and permanency outcomes of legally free children first placed as infants." Child & Family Social Work (2000).