Dr Jo Finch
BA Social Work, MA Social Work, Professional Doctorate in Social WorK, Practice Educators Professional Standards Stage 2., k
Deputy Director - Centre for Social Work Research, SocialWork
I have been a social work educator since 2002, working on both qualifying and post qualifying programmes. I now lead the Professional Doctorate in Social Work.
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ED 3.04
School of Education and Communities
Stratford Campus
Romford Road
London
E15 4LZ - J.Finch@uel.ac.uk +442082232932
Dr Jo Finch has previously worked as a children and families social worker in both the voluntary and statutory sectors in a variety of inner London boroughs. She has also worked as a play therapist. Jo previously worked at Havering College of Further and Higher Education, from 2002 to 2010 as a Curriculum Manager on the BA (Hons) Social Work and post qualifying awards before moving to UEL in February 2010. Jo was formerly the programme leader for the BA (Hons) Social Care (distance learning) before becoming programme leader of the MA in Social Work (2012 to 2016). Jo was also the programme leader for the PGDip Step Up cohort 3 (2013 to 2015). Jo is now the programme leader of the Professional Doctorate in Social Work. Jo has worked across a number of programmes at UEL, including the BA (Hons) Social Care, BA (Hons) Social Work, Step Up and MA in Social Work, post qualifying programmes (practice education), Professional Doctorate in Education and was formerly seconded to the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust to work on the Professional Doctorates in Emotional Well Being and Social Work/Social Care (2012 to 2015). Jo is currently Reader in Social Work, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Work Research
Jo is the Editor of the Journal of Practice Teaching and Learning - the only UK based inter disciplinary journal focusing on practice learning, assessment and work based learning.
Overview
Jo's research interests centre around practice teaching, learning and assessment with a particular focus on the challenges and issues raised by struggling or failing students, from the perspective of practice educators and social work tutors. Jo has also explored group decision making in relation to failing students. Jo is interested in ethnographic, practice near and psychoanalytical informed research approaches. Jo has been involved in a number of evaluations of suicide prevention programmes.
Other scholarly activities
Registered Social Worker, HCPC
PFHEA (Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy)
External Examiner, MA, Applied Public Policy, MA Specialist Social Work, Children and Families, MA Specialist Social Work, Practice Education, University of Bedfordshire 2012 - 2016
BA (Hons) Social Work,
Wolverhampton University, 2011 to 2014
Bournemouth University, 2014 External Examiner, Graduate Certificate in Practice Education 2014 to present
Nottingham University, External Examiner, MA Social Work, 2016 to present
Editor - Journal of Practice Teaching and Learning 2015 to present
Collaborators
Research
Publications
Jo currently is working on a BA Leverhulme small grants award research projecting, focusing on the experiences of parents who have been referred to social services because of concerns about radicalisation and extremism
Funding
Interests
Portfolio
BA Social Work, MA Social Work, Professional Doctorate in Social Work, Practice Educators Professional Standards Stage 2., k
MA Dissertation
SK7325 PEPS 2
SK7001 - Critically Reviewing the Literature
SK7002 - Positioning Yourself as a Researcher
SK8001 - Methods and Methodology
SK8002 - Working Towards Registration
Module Leadership:
SK7235 Practice Educators Stage 2
SK7107 - MA Social Work Dissertation
Contribute to:
SK7101 - Fundamentals of Social Work
Practice Educators Stage 1
Programmes:
MA in Social Work
PhD and Professional Doctorate supervision
PGDip (Step-Up) Social Work
EdD (Education Doctorate)
DSW (Professional Doctorate in Education (Programme Leader)
PhD and Professional Doctorate Research supervision - Completions
Raelton Gibbs, (Second Supervisor), Awarded 2012, “Standing in the Shadows: Faith, Homelessness and Troubled Lives” Professional Doctorate in Social Work, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust & University of East London
Stephen Jordan, DSW (Director of Studies) Awarded 2014 “An Exploration of Humour, Jokes and their Relationship to Social Work” Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust/UEL
Andrew Whittaker, PhD (2nd supervisor) Awarded 2014 “Decision making in child protection: Psychological processes, emotion and organisational culture” Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust/UEL
Gergana Zaidan, PhD (Former Director of studies, then 2nd supervisor) (Awarded 2015) “The Role of Space in Learning – Spatio-Educational Experiences of Female Students within Emirati Higher Education” UEL
Current Doctoral Supervision:
Khurshid Meehan (director of studies) The Act of Faith: Therapeutic Encounters with a Sample of Adolescent refugee Mental Health Patients
Andrew Richardson, DSW, “It's personal. Personalisation and what it means to service users” Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust/UEL
Ben Taylor, PhD (DOS) “Exploring the impact of pupil premium on looked after children”. UEL
Louise Arnold, PhD (DOS) “The accessibility of
treatment and prescription information in the NHS to young children with
disabilities and their parents; the layers and levels of partnership and
inclusion UEL
Kim Detjen, PhD (second supervisor0 Domestic Abuse, UEL
PhD and Professional Doctorate supervisions
MA and BA in Social Work