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Personal profile
Teaching
I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). My current teaching is around policy development. I have broader teaching interests is residential child care, ethics and social work theory and a particular interest in professional education.
Biography
I was a practitioner and manager in residential child care settings for almost 20 years before entering academia. My first academic post was at the University of Strathclyde, where I set up and taught a Masters programme in residential child care. In 2005, I moved to the University of Edinburgh as lecturer, and subsequently, senior lecturer, in social work. I served as head of social work there from 2013 - 2017. I joined the University of Dundee as Professor of Social Work in 2017. My wife and I are respite and foster carers, which maintains a link with direct care practice.
Research
I have a broad range of research and writing interests. I have published three books on residential child care, one of which is translated into Japanese, and two edited volumes on moral panics and on social work in a changing Scotland. I am writing a further book on the stories of boys (now men) who were brought up in a residential school in the 1980s. I regularly publish articles in high ranking journals. My writing and research interests lie in the areas of care and upbringing, social pedagogy, social work ethics and theorising social work. I have a particular current interest in historical abuse in residential child care.
I would be interested in supervising PhDs in any of the above areas, or more broadly, through negotiation.
Education/Academic qualification
2015 → 2016
Award Date: 28 Jul 2016
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
2007 → 2013
Award Date: 14 Nov 2013
Master of Education, University of Edinburgh
1987 → 1991
Award Date: 31 Oct 1991
University of Stirling
1985 → 1987
Award Date: 29 Jun 1987
Master of Arts, University of St Andrews
Oct 1977 → Jul 1981
Award Date: 9 Jul 1981
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Projects
African Social Work Writing Workshop(with Manchester Metropolitan University and University of Nigeria)
Ingram, R., Levy, S. & Smith, M.
31/01/20 → 29/09/21
Project: Research
Research Output
Recognising strategy and tactics in constructing and working with involuntary social work clients
Smith, M., 2 Jul 2020, In : Australian Social Work. 73, 3, p. 321-333 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
The Social Work Regulator and Professional Identity: A Narrative of Lord and Bondsman
Simpson, M., Daly, M. & Smith, M., 1 May 2020, In : British Journal of Social Work. bcaa034.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Social pedagogy and its relevance for Scottish social welfare
Smith, M. & Monteux, S., 5 Jun 2019, Glasgow: Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services. 16 p. (Insights: A Series of Evidence Summaries; no. 49)Research output: Book/Report › Other report
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The politics and ethics of research into ‘wicked’ social problems: The case of Jimmy Savile at Duncroft
Smith, M., 30 Jul 2019, Designing and Conducting Research in Social Science, Health and Social Care. McSweeney, F. & Williams, D. (eds.). 1 ed. Taylor & Francis, 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
‘You can’t say that!’: critical thinking, identity politics and the role of the social work academy
Fenton, J. & Smith, M., Dec 2019, In : Societies. 9, 4, 14 p., 71.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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