I have worked at Manchester Met since 2022. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.  I am a member of Manchester Met Institute for Children’s Futures.

I am a registered social worker, since completing my MA in Social Work at the University of Manchester in 2012, with a dissertation on ‘An Examination of the Association between Child Sexual Abuse and ‘Hearing Voices’ and the implications for Social Work Practice’. My first role post-qualifying was in Manchester as an agency social worker on their child protection locality team. I then started work in Bury on their Safeguarding Team in 2013. I moved to working in Adoption in 2016 when I joined the Adoption Team at Tameside MBC, before becoming seconded into Adoption Now Regional Adoption Agency in November 2017.  I bring knowledge of contemporary social work to my teaching as I continue to sit on an Adoption Panel as a independent panel member.

The areas in which I teach include, child development theories, the impact of abuse or neglect on child development, anti-discriminatory practice, legislation relevant to social work practice when working with children and families and adoption services regulations, procedures and guidance. I have also been fortunate in being able to attend a variety of training whilst in practice, including Blended Families, Transracial Adoption, Virtual Reality headset kits, Adult Attachment with Lydia Guthrie and Therapeutic Parenting with Sarah Naish. 

Social Work England registration number: SW90285