Dermot Brady

I graduated as a social worker from Kingston in 1994 and did my Masters in Professional Education and training here in 2012. I worked for 25 years in various capacities in the Probation Service. 

I teach undergraduate and postgraduate education in the School of Social Work, with emphasis on Practice Education, leadership and management and early transitions into social work practice. I work on the BA (Hons) Working with Children and Young People; social pedagogy.

Research interests include domestic abuse and fathering, practice education and I recently led on the completion of a report with colleagues for the Home Office on cross-county lines drug dealing.

I lead On the Job Learning for Kingston University's BA (Hons) Social Work Integrated Degree programme with our employer partners. I am an accredited DASH trainer and make this training is available to all Kingston social work students.

I recently published a chapter in Okitikpi, T (2023) The Art of Social Work Practice, Lyme Regis, Russell House Publishing on IT in social work practice. I am working on articles on "Black Men in Social Work" (with Kelly Gittens) and "talking to Children about Forest School" with Claire Jackson (school of Education).

I am the UK and EU lead for the Caring Dads programme, which addresses abusive and neglectful fathering with men whose children are involved with social work and am a National Trainer for this.

• MPeths (2012)
• ILM certificate (2004)
• PgDipHE CQSW (1994)
• BA (1981)