Bern Murphy is a Research Fellow at the Australian Youth Research Centre. She has worked on a range of evaluation projects in relation to young people within an education setting or young people in drug treatment/rehabilitation settings. Bern also teaches within the Social and Professional Contexts subject and is a Clinical Specialist in the MTeach program, based at Princes hill Secondary College supervising Teacher Canditates.

*Masters of Education. Melbourne University (1993-1996)

*Post Graduate Diploma – Health Education Melbourne University (1991-1993)

*Bachelor of Education Melbourne University (1979-1982)

460542 - Social and Professional Contexts
460540 - Professional Practice &Seminar Sec

Bern has conducted extensive work in drug education/drug treatment for young people and is interested in student wellbeing issues. Education opportunities for marginalised young people, espeicially indigenous young people is also a keen area of interest. She has also been involved in the development of a range of curriculum materials for school drug education.
Bern is interested in pre-service teacher education particulary in relation to the teacher as a professional and wellbeing issues for students.

Current projects
* Evaluation of The Koori Youth Alcohol and Drug Spiritual Healing Service a partnership between Ngwala Willumbong Co-operative and the Youth Substance Abuse Service
* School Drug Efficacy Trial DEECD

Recently Completed Projects
2007 Youth Transition Support Initiative, formative evaluation. DEECD
2006 The First 100 hundred students: Evaluation of Doxa School
2006 Evaluation of The YSAS Day program in the Eastern Metropolitan region
2006 Evaluation of The YSAS young parent's project in Frankston.
2005 The ‘Earn to Learn’ Project, Doxa Youth Foundation
2004-2005 Toolkit in Good Practice in Drug Prevention Projects Nationally Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
2004- 2005 Peer Leadership Forums in Drug Education. Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
2004-2005 -Truancy and Drug Use Project . Department of Education and Training. Victoria