Academic Departments
John Crossland
Title: Dr
Qualifications: BA (Hons) European Studies; Cert. Rehab. (Visual Impairment); Diploma in Management Studies; MA Health and Social Policy; Doctor of Social Work (DSW)
Department: School of Health Sciences and Social Work
Address: James Watson West, 2 King Richard 1st Road, Portsmouth P01 2FR
Email: john.crossland@port.ac.uk
Telephone: 02392 842837
What is your role on the Professional Doctorate?
None to date in Portsmouth – have previously facilitated meetings of Prof. Doc students at the University of Sussex and acted as supervisor for pieces of work in the first year of their programme.
What is your background?
Over 20 years practice and management experience in adult social care services, primarily with older people and disabled people before taking up an academic social work role part time at the University of Sussex. Since 2010 full time Senior Lecturer in Social Work at UoP, teaching mainly interprofessional and interagency practice, human development in older adulthood, policy development and adult social care policy and legislation. Awarded the degree of Doctor of Social Work by the University of Sussex in 2012.
What are your research interests?
- German social care policy and legislation
- Comparative adult social care policy
- Translation in cross national research methodology
- Case/care management
- Older people with sensory impairments, including Deaf sign language users
- Interpretive approaches in qualitative social research
How many times have you supervised as:-
- Director of Studies (completed supervisions only) - 0
- 2nd Supervisor (completed supervisions only) - 0
I have considerable experience of dissertation supervision at undergraduate and taught postgraduate level, plus have supervised professional doctorate students in their first pieces of work whilst teaching at Sussex, as noted above.
Publications (up to three)
Crossland, J. (1996) Daily living skills: The emperor has no clothes, British Journal of Visual Impairment, 14 (3) 105-107
Karas, M. and Crossland, J. (2002) The wider needs of elderly people with a visual impairment: The role of the rehabilitation worker, CE Optometry, 5 (1) 38-40
Crossland, J. (2008) Care in the community for older people: An English perspective on the German care system, European Journal of Social Work, 11 (3) 313-316
Current Projects
Currently writing an article based on a focus group conducted with older Deaf adults who used sign language as part of the wider PEOPPLE project.
Define best research/education experience
Being awarded a TH Marshall Research Fellowship in European Social Policy that enabled me to spend 4 months in Berlin researching a case management service for older people, which subsequently formed the core of my doctoral thesis investigating the comparability of the approach across different national welfare contexts.
Favourite relevant quote
“Every day I know less and less. Pretty soon I will know nothing”
Attributed to the late Californian academic Archbishop Shaka of the Japanese Buddhist order Nichiren Shu.