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