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Professional Doctorate in Health and Social Care Disciplines
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Dr Kieron Hatton
Title: Dr
Qualifications: PhD, MSc, CQSW/Dip HE,BA
Department: Centre for Social Work, SHSSW
Address: St Michael’s Building, White Swan Road, PO1 2DT
Email:
kieron.hatton@port.ac.uk
What is your role on the Professional Doctorate?
Pathway Leader Social Work
What is your background?
Professional Social Worker
What are your research interests?
Comparative and international social work, research methods, social policy, welfare law, community work and advocacy
How many times have you supervised as:-
Director of Studies (completed supervisions only) - 2
2nd Supervisor (completed supervisions only) - 0
Publications (up to three)
Author: Book (2008) – New Directions in Social Work Practice, Exeter, Learning Matters, March
Author: Europe and the Undergraduate Curriculum, (2006) chapter in Social work in Europe: educating for change, editors Lyons, K and Lawrence, S, Birmingham, Venture Press/BASW
Author: Examining Different Value bases (2003) – contribution to a Monograph on Occupational Spaces in Social Work eds Littlechild, B and Lyons, K in the series Expanding Horizons in Social Work and Allied Professions, Birmingham, BASW
Current Projects:
Author: Social Pedagogy, Lyme Regis, Russell House Publishing, due for publication autumn, 2010.
Author: Social Theory for Social Work, Harlow, Pearson Longman, due for publication summer 2010.
Researcher – an evaluative research project looking at the implications of social pedagogy in children’s residential services. In partnership with the Senior management team in Portsmouth Children’s Services Directorate. Budget £10,000. April to July 2008
Researcher – Creativity and Well-being an evaluative research project looking at the implications of social pedagogy in adolescent mental health. In partnership with Portsmouth City Council Adolescent Mental Health team, PCC Youth service and Motiv8 (a large voluntary organisation working with young people) Budget £10,000 March to May 2008
Past Projects:
British Academy - small research grant (£2508) – Social work interventions with the Roma people: an examination of the Roma experience in the Czech Republic, awarded July 2004 (Period of award: November 2004 – November 2006).
Define best research/education experience:
University Project Lead – Pilot Project for Newly Qualified Social Workers, Skill for Care, September 2008 – April 2009, Budget £18,000
Project lead – ‘Creativity, Inclusion and Social Pedagogy – designing and implementing a pilot programme to determine the impact of a social pedagogic approach in residential children’s services’ – with Shaftesbury Young People, Portsmouth City Council, Hampshire County Council, Social Work Inclusion Group (£1.5 million – unsuccessful)
University Project lead – joint project with Portsmouth City Council to establish training and audit needs of Newly Qualified Social Workers, (April – November 2007 - £25,000)
Project Leader - ‘Training Service Users to become actively involved in new social work degree’ – TOPSS England, March to June 2005 (£19,700)
Project Leader - The Development of Learning Resource Centres in Hants/IOW, funded by TOPSS South East, (April – September 2004, £19,750) - with all Local Authorities and HEI’s in Hants/IOW.
Project Leader – Development of a Service User Inclusion Group within PIMHS, March 2004 – July 2005, funded by GSCC, £11,5000
PhD –Dialectics of Exclusion and Empowerment: An examination of the role of social professionals in Britain, Ireland and Denmark - registered at the University of Portsmouth. Completed March 2001
Favourite relevant quote:
It is necessary to direct one’s attention violently towards the present as it is, if one wishes to transform it. Pessimism of the intelligence, optimism of the will. (Gramsci, 1971: 175)