People
Our people are the most important thing about our subject area. It takes a team of academics, professional services colleagues and PhD students working together to deliver our teaching, carry out our research and keep the department running. Together, they form a supportive community covering a range of professional expertise. You can search by name or role here, or browse below.
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Dr Khudejha Asghar
Research Fellow - Interrupting the Intergenerational Transmission of Violence
- Children, families and relationships
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Methods
- Migration and experiences of displacement
Molly Brooks
PhD Title: Regenerating Mental Health: Exploring the impact of the urban environment on the mental health of young people in Glasgow, UK
- Childhood & Youth
- Energy, environment and sustainability
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- International development
- Mental health and wellbeing

Dr Sangeeta Chatterji
Honorary Fellow
- Children, families and relationships
- Global health policy
- Health & Well-being
- International development
- Intimacy
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Methods
- South Asian studies
- Work & Economy

Dr Anna Chiumento
Lecturer in Global Mental Health and Society
- Health & Well-being
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Migration and experiences of displacement

Gary Clapton
Honorary Fellow
- Children and families
- Social work profession and social work education

Dr Georgia Cole
Chancellor's Fellow
- Identities & Inequalities
- International development
- International Relations Research Group
- Methods
- Middle East Research Group
- Migration and experiences of displacement

Professor Viviene Cree
Emerita Professor of Social Work Studies
- Social work profession and social work education

Professor John Devaney
Dean and Head of the School of Social and Political Science, and Centenary Chair of Social Work
- Children and families
- Criminal justice
- Social work profession and social work education

Dr Carol Duncan
Research Fellow
- Children and families
- Children, families and relationships
- Social work profession and social work education

Dr Hannabeth Franchino-Olsen
Honorary Fellow
- Childhood & Youth
- Children and families
- Children, families and relationships
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Global health policy
- Health & Well-being

Dr John Frederick
Honorary Fellow
James Gilmour
Subject Academic Support Officer - Social Work & Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology (EdCMA)

Dr Jackie Gulland
Senior Lecturer in Social Work
- Governance of welfare states
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Identities & Inequalities
- Social work profession and social work education
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19
- Work & Economy

Rania Hamad
Thesis working title - 'How and why hate crime occurs: exploring the accounts of people convicted of hate crime in Scotland'
- Criminal justice
- Identities & Inequalities
- Social work profession and social work education

Mark Hardy
PhD title: Working title: An Institutional Ethnography of Social Work Decision-Making with Children and Families Experiencing Poverty

Dr Colleen Henry
Honorary Fellow

Dr Sumeet Jain
Senior Lecturer
- Global health policy
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Social work profession and social work education
- South Asian studies

Dr Steve Kirkwood
Head of Social Work; Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Criminal justice
- Identities & Inequalities
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Race and decolonial thought
- Social work profession and social work education

Dr Rebecca J. Macy
Honorary Professor
Dr Saju Madavanakadu Devassy
Honorary Professor
- Social work profession and social work education

Dr Amitai Marmor
Honorary fellow
- Childhood & Youth
- Children and families
- Culture
- Social work profession and social work education
- Welfare, policy and Covid-19

Pearse McCusker
Senior Lecturer in Social Work
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Social work profession and social work education

Dr Franziska Meinck
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
- Childhood & Youth
- Children and families
- Children, families and relationships
- Global health policy
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Methods
Dr Mary Mitchell
Senior Lecturer in Social Work
- Childhood & Youth
- Children and families
- Children, families and relationships
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Social work profession and social work education

Dr Eve Mullins
Lecturer in Social Work
- Children, families and relationships
- Criminal justice
- Identities & Inequalities
- Social work profession and social work education

Dr Hadijah Mwenyango
Lecturer in Social Work
- Health & Well-being
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Social work profession and social work education

Bryony Nisbet
PhD Student and Social Work Tutor
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Methods
- Migration and experiences of displacement

Professor George Palattiyil
Personal Chair of Social Work and Refugee Studies
- Health & Well-being
- Health inequalities, disability and older people
- Migration and experiences of displacement
- Social work profession and social work education
- South Asian studies
Professor Manohar Pawar
Honorary Professor

Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh
Senior Lecturer in Social Work
- Children and families
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Migration and experiences of displacement

Dr Robin Sen
Lecturer in Social Work
- Children and families
- Children, families and relationships
- Governance & Democracy
- Identities & Inequalities
- Race and decolonial thought

Chantelle T. Boyce
PhD Student
- Children, families and relationships
- Criminal justice
- Data & Digital
- Gender Politics Research Group
- Health & Well-being
- Identities & Inequalities
- Kinship, bodies and relatedness
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Methods

Dr Kiran Thampi
Honorary Fellow

Dr Jimmy Turner
Research Fellow
- Culture
- Identities & Inequalities
- Methods

Dr Camille Warrington
Honorary Fellow
- Childhood & Youth
- Children and families
- Children, families and relationships
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Social work profession and social work education

Lorraine Waterhouse
Professor of Social Work (Emeritus)

Bill Whyte
Professor Emeritus; Honorary Professorial Fellow; formerly Professor of Social Work Studies in Criminal and Youth Justice

Dr Christopher Wretman
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methods