Susan Patricia Kemp is a New Zealand

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academic.

Academic career

Kemp completed a bachelor's degree in sociology and psychology at

Massey University Massey University ( mi, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa) is a university based in Palmerston North, New Zealand, with significant campuses in Albany and Wellington. Massey University has approximately 30,883 students, 13,796 of whom are extramural or ...

, a master's degree in sociology at the

University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...

, and a second master's degree at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. She completed her

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...

at Columbia in 1994 with a dissertation titled ''Social Work and Systems of Knowledge: the Concept of Environment in Social Casework Theory''. Later the same year she joined the teaching staff at the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

, where she remained until her retirement in June 2020.

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).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kemp, Susan Patricia Living people New Zealand women academics Year of birth missing (living people) New Zealand women writers Massey University alumni University of Auckland alumni Columbia University School of Social Work alumni University of Washington faculty