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Youth focus for first Pacific Doctor of Social Work candidate
Jack Scanlan (centre, blue hibiscus shirt) with family and staff from Massey s School of Social Work at his powhiri earlier this year.
Jack Scanlan, Doctor of Social Work candidate
Growing up in South Auckland, Jack Scanlan never saw himself as one day being an academic doing pioneering research about the tough community and life experiences that shaped him.
Gaining School Certificate (now NCEA Level One) then working in a factory was the predicted path for this Mangere Samoan teen. But things turned out differently, thanks to his mother’s unconditional love and support as well as encouragement from a secondary school English teacher who believed in him.