Selected Publications

  • Imagining Ontological Security

    How can co-design enable people to imagine safety, security and belonging, even when those experiences have been disrupted?

  • Critical Social Work and Co-Design

    What relational, intellectual, and political skills do social work educators need to teach graduates to effectively co-design in professional practice?

  • A Culturally Humble Approach to Designing a Sports-Based Youth Development Program

    How might the principles of co-design be enacted when designing with culturally diverse communities?

  • Applying Human-Centred Design Tools to Social Work Research

    What is the potential for human-centred design tools to facilitate more participant-centred research?

  • Promotors and Barriers to Good Health

    What does good health mean to the African-Australian community in south-eastern Melbourne, and what gets in the way?

  • Beyond Survival

    How might we strengthen community-based supports for parents receiving a family services intervention?

Refereed Journal Articles 

Boz, T., Cordoba, P. S., Egan, R., Schnioffsky, B., Watson, J., Martin, R., Goff, R. & Craik, C. (2025). Housing responses for older women who have experienced homelessness: a scoping review. Housing Studies, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2025.2604000

Goff, R., Boz, T., Craik, C., Watson, J., Martin, R., Egan, R., Cordoba, S. (2025). Imagining Ontological Security: Key Moments when Co-designing Housing Responses with Women who have experienced Homelessness. International Journal of Qualitative Methods – Special Issue on Community Based Research and Action in Vulnerable Contexts. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069251392408 

Goff, R., O’Keeffe, P., Cunningham, R., Kuol, A., Kuyini, B., Egan, R., & Martin, R. (2025). Promoters and Barriers to Good Health within the African-Australian Community in South-Eastern Melbourne. Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion. https://doi.org/10.1177/26320770251351953  

Goff, R., Martin, S., & O’Keeffe, P. (2025). Critical Social Work and Co-Design: Preparing Students for Emancipatory Practice. Social Work Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2025.2569597  

O’Keeffe, P., Goff, R., Cunningham, R., Egan, R., Kuol, A., Kuyini, B., Martin, R. (under review). ‘Tell me a story’: Understanding African-Australian concepts of health, wellbeing, and community. Community Development.  https://doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2025.2581999 

Cunningham, R., Egan, R., Goff, R., Kuol, A., Martin, R., Nguyen, C., … Williams, S. (2025). ‘We felt like we belonged’: black Rhinos Junior Basketball – strengthening community belonging and engagement in learning. Sport in Society, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2025.2580961  

David, C., Nipperess, S., Goff, R., Edwards, K., & Martin, R. (2025). Participation and access for ‘equity’ students in social work and human services higher education: more than ‘bums on seats’? Social Work Education, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2025.2581714  

Kuyini, A. B., Kuol, A., Goff, R., Egan, R., O’Keeffe, P., Cunningham, R., Martin, R., & Williams, S. (2024). African community understandings of Ubuntu and its application to design of a junior basketball program to support health and wellbeing in Melbourne, Australia. The Australasian Review of African Studies, 45(2), 150–173. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.T2025032700012500146122899  

Goff R, O’Keeffe P, Kuol A, et al. (2024). A Culturally Humble Approach to Designing a Sports-Based Youth Development Program With African-Australian Community. Qualitative Health Research. 34(12), 1203-1215. doi:10.1177/10497323241231856 

Goff, R., Bagley, K., & Sadowski, C. (2024). Applying Human-Centred Design Tools in Social Work Research: A Desire-Centred Approach. Australian Social Work, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2023.2284174  

Martin, S., Goff, R., & O’Keeffe, P. (2023). Integrating design thinking into social work education: a scoping review of practices and identification of opportunities for curriculum innovation. Social Work Education, 43(7), 2040–2059. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2023.2238713  

Goff, R., Sadowski, C., & Bagley, K. (2022). Beyond Survival: Strengthening community-based support for parents receiving a family service intervention. Child & Family Social Work, 28(2), 492-502. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12979  

Sadowski, C., Goff, R., & Sawyer, N. (2021). A mixed-methods study of two modes of the Circle of Security. Research on Social Work Practice, https://doi.org/10.1177%2F10497315211009315  

Book Chapters

Goff, R., & Hopman, J. (2025). Critical and Creative: Utilising Co-design methods to enhance assessment as learning. In M. Jaldorn & C. Hudson (Eds). Tutorial Ideas for Educators on the Run: Innovative and Engaging Teaching Activities. 

Industry Reports

Martin, R., Goff, R., Craik, C., Boz, T., Egan, R., Cordoba, S., Kay, A., Watson, J. (2024). Older Women’s Recommendations for Sustainable, Affordable, and Long-Term Responses to Homelessness and Housing Instability. RMIT University. Melbourne. 

Martin, R., Craik, C., Goff., R., Watson, J., Boz, T., Cordoba, S., Egan, R., Kay, A. (2024). Sustainable Housing Responses for Women with Children who have Experienced Family Violence Related Homelessness. RMIT University. Melbourne.  

Cunningham, Rob; Egan, Ronnie; Goff, Rachel; Kuol, Abraham; Martin, Robyn; Nguyen, Chi; et al. (2024). An evaluation of the impact of the Black Rhinos Junior Basketball program. RMIT University. Report. https://doi.org/10.25439/rmt.28293512.v1  

Other Publications

Goff, R., O’Keeffe, P., Szczepanska, J., Lumsden-Barry, H. (2025). Repair Spice Kit. Zine version 2. RMIT University. Melbourne 

Goff, R., O’Keeffe, P., Szczepanska, J., Lumsden-Barry, H. (2024). Rupture and Repair in co-design. Zine version 1. RMIT University. Melbourne. 

Goff, R. (2018). Reflections from a co-design convert: How a design mindset can influence social work practice – New Voices in Social Work Research