I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work and Social Care with particular interests in adult social care, specifically working with people in relation to person- centred practice, safeguarding, mental capacity and self-neglect.
Having worked in Adult Community Care as a social worker for many years dating back to 1996 I am passionate about supporting social workers to develop their skills and knowledge to work in a person-centred way. Having joined the Department over 4 years ago I have developed and now co-lead on a post-qualifying module in safeguarding adults at risk. This supports practitioners to explore the complexities of practice in balancing the right to autonomy with issues of risk and protection. I am also the co-lead for our Best Interest Assessor module and am currently involved in developing new modules that will reflect the proposed changes within the Liberty Protection Safeguards. I am undertaking my doctoral thesis which is an ethnographic study that is exploring social worker's experiences of working with adults who self-neglect.
Senior Lecturer