My teaching and research interests incorporate a social perspective on mental health and mental capacity policy for professional practice.
This focuses on social perspectives and rights-based approaches to mental health and mental capacity practice, such as recovery-oriented practice and Supported Decision-Making (SDM). This aims to extend understandings to improve interventions, services and policy with marginalised high need groups. I am interested in co-producing research with citizens and other partners as a critical component in developing professional practice.
My doctoral research was undertaken at the Centre for Social Work Innovation and Research, University of Sussex. My doctoral thesis involved a hermeneutic phenomenological study on how social work Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) experience compulsory mental health decision-making in practice. This involved an in-depth qualitative study, across three different London boroughs.
I am a registered social worker, active in practice as an Advanced Social Worker and Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) in South London. My career includes a 20-year commitment to the mental health field of social work practice.
Senior Lecturer. Course Leader Master of Social Work (MSW)
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