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  • Cara Senouni
    IASR Research Administrator
    Institute of Applied Social Research
    University of Bedfordshire
    Park Square
    Luton
    LU1 3JU
  • +44 (0)1582 743085
  • cara.senouni@beds.ac.uk

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To apply for a research degree, please make sure you fulfill the entry requirements and then complete the online research degree application form and upload your supporting documents.

You should have a good honours degree (2:1 or above) or masters degree or equivalent in the relevant subject area.

International applicants should be aware of our research degree English language requirements

Recent publications

Recent publications

The Social Work Professional Practice and Law Research Unit

  • Mapping older people’s needs’. (with V. Wigley). Research Policy and Planning. (2004) 22(3), 35-50.
  • Mapping the needs of children in need’. (with V. Wigley). British Journal of Social Work. (2005) 35(2), 255-275.
  • Emerging from out of the shadows? Service user and carer involvement in systematic reviews’. (with S. Braye). Evidence and Policy. (2005) 1(2), 173-193.
  • Law in social work education: reviewing the evidence on teaching, learning and assessment’. (with S. Braye and R. Johns). Social Work Education. (2005) 24(5), 547-563.
  • The role of law in welfare reform: critical perspectives on the relationship between law and social work practice’. (with S. Braye). International Journal of Social Welfare (2006) 15(1), 19-26.
  • Broadening the vision: law teaching, social work and civil society’. (with S. Braye). International Social Work (2006) 49(3), 376-389.
  • Lost in translation? Teaching law to non-lawyers: reviewing the evidence from social work’, (with S. Braye and R. Johns). The Law Teacher (2006) 40(2), 131-150.
  • On systematic reviews in social work: observations from teaching, learning and assessment of law in social work education’, (with S. Braye). British Journal of Social Work (2007) 37(2), 313-334.
  • Whose lives and whose learning? Whose narratives and whose writing? Taking the next research and literature steps with experts by experience’. Evidence and Policy. (2007) 3(3), 343-359.
  • Beyond the classroom: learning social work law practice’, (with S. Braye and A. Thorpe). Journal of Social Work (2007) 7(3), 322-340.
  • Constructing resilience: social workers’ understandings and practice’. (with Isabella McMurray, Helen Connolly and Veronica Wigley). Health and Social Care in the Community. (2008) 16(3), 299-309.
  • Reflections on ethical research in action: working at the practice edge’. (with Isabella McMurray, Helen Connolly and Veronica Wigley). Ethics and Social Welfare. (2008) 2 (2), 150-171.
  • Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Law in Medical Education: Knowledge Review and Practice Survey’. (with Judy McKimm). (2010) Higher Education Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine (MEDEV) and the UK Centre for Legal Education (UKCLE).
  • On the evidence for viruses in social work systems: law, ethics and practice’. European Journal of Social Work. (2010) 13 (4), forthcoming.
  • On administrative evil-doing within social work policy and services: law, ethics and practice’. European Journal of Social Work. (2011) 14 (1), forthcoming.
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