Ruth Pearson

University Teacher - Social Work (BA (Hons) Applied Social Studies; CQSW; Practice Teaching Award; MA Child Welfare and Child Protection; ILM Certificate in Management; PG Cert Learning & Teaching in Higher Education)

Academic Profile

My background is Children and Families Social Work, largely child protection. I have been a social work practitioner and Senior Practitioner in Child Protection. I have managed multi-agency safeguarding training services for two local ACPCs/LSCBS. After gaining the Masters in Child Welfare and Child Protection from Huddersfield University, I worked for four years as a Senior Lecturer on the Social Work courses at Sheffield Hallam University. I have been with the Department, on a part time basis, since January 2011. I am currently a steering group member of the national body PIAT (Promoting Interagency Training). I also work on a freelance basis delivering multi-agency and single agency training on a number of topics, particularly Working with Hostile or Uncooperative Families and Hidden Men in child protection. I have been the independent author of a number of Serious Case Reviews.

Publications since 2005

Pearson, R. (2009) 'Working with unco-operative or hostile families' in Hughes, L. and Owen, H. (eds) Good Practice in Safeguarding Children: Working Effectively in Child Protection, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 85-102.

Teaching

I teach on the MA in Social Work and the MA in Professional Practice with Children and their Families.

I convene the following modules:

• SCS 619 Consolidation
• SCS 634 Enabling Others
• SCS 635 Specialist Practice
• SCS 661 Supervision and Safeguarding

Practice Interests

Children and Families work; child development; decision making and analysis; multi-agency working; working with Hostile or Uncooperative families and other service users; Serious Case Reviews.