Outputs (4)

Silencing Touch and Touching Silence? Understanding the Complex Links between Touch and Silence in Residential Child Care Settings (2021)
Journal Article
Green, L., Warwick, L., & Moran, L. (2021). Silencing Touch and Touching Silence? Understanding the Complex Links between Touch and Silence in Residential Child Care Settings. Childhood, 28(2), 245-261. https://doi.org/10.1177/09075682211000111

Touch and silence are neglected across most disciplines, including within child-specific academic literature, and their interconnections have not been studied before. This article focuses on touch/silence convergences in residential childcare in Engl... Read More about Silencing Touch and Touching Silence? Understanding the Complex Links between Touch and Silence in Residential Child Care Settings.

Revealing the hidden performances of social work practice: The ethnographic process of gaining access, getting into place and impression management (2020)
Journal Article
Leigh, J., Disney, T., Warwick, L., Ferguson, H., Beddoe, L., & Cooner, T. S. (2020). Revealing the hidden performances of social work practice: The ethnographic process of gaining access, getting into place and impression management. Qualitative Social Work, 20(4), 1078-1095. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325020929067

Whilst the empirical process of research highlights substantive findings, understanding the methodological approach in which access is gained and sustained on field sites is also an integral part of the data. Gaining access in ethnographic studies, i... Read More about Revealing the hidden performances of social work practice: The ethnographic process of gaining access, getting into place and impression management.

The nature and culture of social work with children and families in long‐term casework: Findings from a qualitative longitudinal study (2020)
Journal Article
Ferguson, H., Warwick, L., Cooner, T. S., Leigh, J., Beddoe, L., Disney, T., & Plumridge, G. (2020). The nature and culture of social work with children and families in long‐term casework: Findings from a qualitative longitudinal study. Child and Family Social Work, 25(3), 694-703. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12746

Social work in the United Kingdom is preoccupied with what social workers cannot do due to having limited time to spend with service users. Yet remarkably little research has examined what social workers actually do, especially in long-term relations... Read More about The nature and culture of social work with children and families in long‐term casework: Findings from a qualitative longitudinal study.

From snapshots of practice to a movie: Researching long-term social work and child protection by getting as close as possible to practice and organisational life (2019)
Journal Article
Ferguson, H., Leigh, J., Beddoe, L., Singh Crooner, T., Disney, T., Warwick, L., & Plumridge, G. (2020). From snapshots of practice to a movie: Researching long-term social work and child protection by getting as close as possible to practice and organisational life. British Journal of Social Work, 50(6), 1706–1723. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz119

Research into social work and child protection has begun to observe practice to find out what social workers actually do, however no such ethnographic research has been done into long-term practice. This paper outlines and analyses the methods used i... Read More about From snapshots of practice to a movie: Researching long-term social work and child protection by getting as close as possible to practice and organisational life.