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UK Educational Psychologist and Teaching Fellow and the University of Bristol. Founder of edpsy.org.uk and Committee Member of the British Psychological Society Division of Educational and Child Psychology. Particular interest in children's wellbeing, children's right and eliminating exclusion.
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I am a Lecturer in Social Work with Children and Families at the University of Bristol. I am involved in delivering teaching and conducting research about a wide range of topics related to children and families. My research interests include engaging and working with fathers, understanding direct practice, and the delivery of parenting support programmes. I teach on programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level on topics such as fatherhood, communication skills, family support and research methods. I also have experience in supervising students with dissertations at both Masters and doctoral levels. I am a Board Member of the European Social Work Research Association which works to promote and strengthen social work research.
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I am Lecturer in Intercultural Literacies and Languages in Education, within the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. I work closely with the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts at Glasgow. My current research focuses on: issues faced by migrants, asylum seekers and refugees (in particular young people); teaching/learning in situations of protracted crisis; modern languages in education; intercultural communication; critical and engaged pedagogies.
Recently, I have been involved in three projects (two of which as P.I.) with academic partners in Palestine, looking at online language teaching/learning in situations of protracted crisis.