Starting my journal through HUMN2066

Welcome to my Praxis Journal. This space is dedicated to demonstrating my engagement with, and reflection on, theory and action throughout HUMN2066. Here, I document my insights, learning, and growth over the 2025 summer session.

My backgroud

Personal

Through my studies and personal experiences, I have become more aware of how important self-understanding and wellbeing are to my learning. As I continue at university, I want to gain more knowledge and practical strategies to better understand my ADHD diagnosis and learn how to manage it in a way that supports both my studies and my mental health. This will be an ongoing process of growth, where I can hopefully build my confidence and self esteem.

Educational

Once I complete my Bachelor of Social Work and then gain practical experience working in palliative care and/or geriatrics and after developing my professional skills and personal maturity in these fields, I hope to go on to complete a Master of Public Health specialising in Epidemiology. 

Professional

My professional goal is to become a policy advisor in the aged care sector. This steams from my very first job out og high school working as an AIN where I saw how poorly aged care facilities are run and funded and I care deeply about how older Australians are treated and supported. I want become more aware of how policies develeoped by the government effect the lives of people’s and this has motivated me to want to make a positive difference. I hope to work with  to improve aged care standards so that services are compliant, safe and respectful, and dignified.

Contextualising my journey

During the duration of the HUMN2066 subject, it helped me become more curious, creative, and thoughtful about the way I see the world. This subject opened up my eyes to the concept of Wicked Problems which are problems that may not have solutions. I found and still do find this a difficult concept to grasp as I think in black and white where I believe the concept of wicked problems lays in thinking in the grey area as these problems are hard to define as they are socially and/or culturally complex.