Senior Lecturer in Social Work
I qualified with an MA in Social Work in 2006, and then practiced in statutory social work with adults for over 12 years. My specialist areas of practice were work with people with physical impairments or long term health needs, particularly those with neurological conditions or acquired brain injury.
I have been a practice educator since 2012, and I joined the University of Sunderland in 2019, to primarily teach on MA Social Work.
My current areas of interest are: multidisciplinary working and social workers within the NHS; mental capacity and acquired brain injury; Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Care Act 2014; safeguarding adults, self-neglect and the Court of protection; and communication skills.
I am a Senior Fellow of Advance HE, having achieved this in 2022.
Teaching and supervision
- I am Module Leader for SWKM29 Critical Perspectives in Social Work Practice. My teaching includes social work practice with adults, social policy, communication skills, multidisciplinary working and critical analysis.
Research
I am involved as a researcher in the project 'I've been asked to return to my home country’: An exploration of discrimination experienced by Eastern European women in Tyne and Wear with colleagues Dr Louise Harvey Golding, Dr Diane Simpson and Julie Smiles, with Julia Wysocka and Michal Chantkowski from ICOS.
I am also facilitating Practitioner-Researcher Training with Dr Lesley Deacon.
John Cavener, Carrie Phillips & Felicity Shenton (2019): Enhancing practitioner-led education in social work: developing a secondment project, Social Work Education https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2019.1626817
Publications
Article
Cavener, John, Phillips, Carrie and Shenton, Felicity (2020) Enhancing practitioner-led education in social work: developing a secondment project. Social Work Education, 39 (3). pp. 350-361. ISSN 0261-5479
Monograph
Harvey-Golding, Louise, Simpson, Diane, Phillips, Carrie and Smiles, Julie (2021) ‘I've been asked to return to my home country’ An exploration of discrimination experienced by Eastern European women in Tyne and Wear Report: Part 1. Survey Findings July 2021. Project Report. University of Sunderland.
Harvey-Golding, Louise, Simpson, Diane, Phillips, Carrie and Smiles, Julie (2021) An exploration of discrimination experienced by Eastern European women in Tyne and Wear (Project report, Part 2). Project Report. University of Sunderland, Sunderland.
Conference or Workshop Item
Harvey-Golding, Louise, Simpson, Diane, Phillips, Carrie and Smiles, Julie (2022) ‘I've been asked to return to my home country’ - An exploratory study into the discrimination experienced by Eastern European women living in Tyne and Wear. In: CASS public lecture (25 May 2022), 25 May 2022, University of Sunderland. (Unpublished)
Burrows, Daniel and Phillips, Carrie (2022) Social Work Down Under and Up Over: Hospital social work in the UK and Australia. In: JSWEC 2022, 23 - 24 June 2022, Leeds Beckett University.
Harvey-Golding, Louise, Simpson, Diane, Phillips, Carrie, Smiles, Julie, Wysocka, Julia and Chantkowski, Michal (2021) ‘I've been asked to return to my home country by one of my lecturers’ - an exploration of discrimination experienced by Eastern European women in Tyne and Wear. In: Third Annual Faculty of Education & Society Staff Research Conference, 14 Jun 2021, University of Sunderland, UK. (Unpublished)