Davy Hayes
Biographic Data
| ID | 6024036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Davy Hayes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Davy |
| FAMILY NAME | Hayes |
| SIGNATURE | HAYES D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7053-9069 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Understanding the education of children and young people in residential care
The aim of this article was to conduct a systematic review of the barriers and enablers to positive educational outcomes and experiences for children and young people in residential care. This systematic review follows the SCIE methodology for systematic reviews and aims to fill the gap in literature regarding the barriers and enablers to positive educational outcomes and experiences. Seven databases were searched using a refined search strategy.…
A baseline survey of levels of motivation, well-being, and employment preferences of newly qualified social workers in the UK
The aim of this study is to examine levels of motivation, wellbeing, and employment preferences of newly qualified social workers who graduated in 2022. A mixed-method study design was employed using standardized measurements for wellbeing, measurable scales for motivation and employment preferences, and qualitative questions about job preferences. The online survey was completed by 176 final-year social work students in Northern Ireland during t…
Promoting staff retention in social work
This study explores the push and pull factors influencing retention of Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSWs). A mixed methods design, using standardized measures were used alongside questions capturing demographic data, motivation, employment preferences, and satisfaction with supervision. A sample of 122 NQSWs who graduated from one of three participating universities consented to participate. Quantitative data were analysed using SPSS. Well-be…
Evaluating shortlisting methods for admission into the social work degree
Oversubscribed social work (SW) courses and a workforce review in Northern Ireland prompted a review of admissions, to ensure recruitment of applicants with strong core values. Concerns regarding authorship, plagiarism and reliability of personal statements, and calls for values-based recruitment underpinned this research. This study evaluates psychometric properties of an SW specific personal statement (PS) and a values-based psychological scree…
Conducting large‐scale mixed‐method research on harm and abuse prevention with children under 12
This paper reports on a feasibility study for an evaluation of a UK primary school‐based prevention programme that addresses multiple forms of abuse and neglect, identifying research design and ethical issues and exploring research practice. For this feasibility study, 194 children aged 6–11 years completed a baseline survey and 113 did so following the intervention. Eight focus groups were undertaken with 52 children and nine interviews with sch…
Hurting
In the context of increasing regulation of social workers internationally, this study examines allegations made to a UK social work regulator, the Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC), by service users and carers. A retrospective review of 134 records relating to such allegations during the ten-year period 2006–2015 was undertaken, representing just over one-third (36.4 per cent) of all allegations received. Allegations were made primaril…
To fail or not to fail
Social Work qualifying programmes teach students the necessary knowledge, skills, and values during a series of taught modules. Formal opportunities to integrate knowledge into practice are provided through practice placements in social work agencies. Each practice placement enables agency and/or academic staff to gate-keep entry into the profession, through assessing student competence against agreed practice learning requirements, readiness to …
Social work students on the island of Ireland
Understanding the characteristics, motivations, and experiences of student social workers is important to inform their professional education and support needs. To date, there has been relatively little research about social work students in Ireland, both North and South. This study reports on an all-Ireland survey of students beginning their social work course in Autumn 2018 in the six Universities delivering social work education. It describes …
How Power Dynamics and Relationships Interact with Assessment of Competence
Students have identified practice placements (or practice learning) as the single most important factor of social work education, but it is usually where issues of professional suitability become apparent. Whilst most students successfully complete their placements, a number experience difficulty and a minority ultimately fail. Protecting the profession from students not deemed suitable for professional practice requires a rigorous gatekeeping fu…
Permanency Decisions in Child Welfare
This article presents findings from an exploratory in-depth qualitative research project with seventeen child welfare professionals exploring their permanency decisions with regards to Looked after Children. Thinking aloud-protocols and semi-structured interviews, in conjunction with a specifically constructed vignette were used to explore the permanency decisions of child welfare workers. Findings from this innovative research suggest that diffe…
Making It Real’
Service user and carer involvement (SUCI) in social work education in England is required by the profession's regulator, the Health and Care Professions Council. However, a recent study of eighty-three Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in England reported that, despite considerable progress in SUCI, there is no evidence that the learning derived from it is being transferred to social work practice. In this article, we describe a study that exa…
The Influences of Training and Experience in Removal and Reunification Decisions Involving Children at Risk of Maltreatment
The question of the extent to which qualifying education prepares social work students to become effective practitioners has long been debated. This article reports the quantitative findings of the UK arm of a four-country comparative study that sought to explore one critical quality of a competent social worker—their ability to make decisions about individuals at risk, and to take appropriate action. The study involved 202 social work practition…
Hearing the voices of kinship foster carers in Northern Ireland
This study describes an investigation into the characteristics, needs and experiences of kinship foster carers in Northern Ireland. By adopting a mixed-methods approach with 54 carers, a number of salient themes was captured. The respondents were predominantly grandparents who experienced a significant incidence of health-related issues. The cohort also endured high levels of stress, particularly at the beginning stage of the foster placement. Co…
Understanding informal kinship care
Many children are cared for on a full-time basis by relatives or adult friends, rather than their biological parents, and often in response to family crises. These kinship care arrangements have received increasing attention from the social sciences academy and social care professions. However, more information is needed on informal kinship care that is undertaken without official ratification by welfare agencies and often unsupported by the stat…
Decision making in child protection
Against critical thinking pedagogy
Critical thinking pedagogy is misguided. Ostensibly a cure for narrowness of thought, by using the emotions appropriate to conflict, it names only one mode of relation to material among many others. Ostensibly a cure for fallacies, critical thinking tends to dishonesty in practice because it habitually leaps to premature ideas of what the object or student is asserting. Most importantly, critical thinking pedagogy assumes that students start out …
Rethinking Ebony White
Child Welfare as Child Protection Then and Now
The research reported here builds on the work of one of the authors who, some thirteen years ago, in a similar study, examined the potential for social workers to shift from a child protection to a child welfare practice orientation. As with the original research study, this present project seeks to examine the everyday practices of social workers with children and families as revealed by file analysis, vignette questionnaires (reported here) and…
Social Work Students Learn about Social Work Values from Service Users and Carers
Teaching on social work values is centrally important in social work education as a core aspect of underpinning knowledge in preparing students for practice. This paper describes an innovative project occurring within the first year of the degree in social work, where service users and carers have assisted students with their understanding of social work values. The positive contribution of service users and carers in facilitating students to mak…
From New York to L.A.”
This discography examines the mythologizing of America through popular music, using a selection of songs that identify specific US cities and states. Analysis is categorized according to American geographic areas commonly referred to as the West, the Midwest, the Northeast and the South. A selected discography of recordings from 1924 to 2006 follows, arranged alphabetically according to artist
Eccentric Soul
Child Welfare Interventions
Some 10 years ago one of the authors embarked on a research study examining the potential for social workers to shift from a child protection to a child welfare practice orientation (Spratt, 2000; 2001; Spratt and Callan, 2004). The research reported here develops that work; examining how social workers respond to ‘child care problems’ (CCPs). The results indicate that Northern Irish Health and Social Services Trusts (equivalent to Local Authorit…
Lifeworld', 'System' and Family Group Conferences
Take Those Old Records off the Shelf”
This paper analyzes the (re)emergence of vinyl as an alternative format for music consumption in the digital age. Based on interviews conducted during recent field research on the affectivity of popular music, I argue that youth consumers adopt the seemingly regressive technology of LPs and turntables to resist industry‐regulated contemporary modes of music consumption. Furthermore, their participation in vinyl culture enables them to counteract …
Gaining Access to Data Sources in Statutory Social Work Agencies
Journal Article Gaining Access to Data Sources in Statutory Social Work Agencies: The Long and Winding Road Get access David Hayes David Hayes David Hayes was previously employed as a Training and Development Coordinator by North and West Belfast Health and Social Services Trust in Northern Ireland. He was seconded to the School of Social Work, Queen's University of Belfast in order to undertake a research study entitled 'Parental Reaction to Chi…
Lifeworld', 'System' and Family Group Conferences
Take Those Old Records off the Shelf”
This paper analyzes the (re)emergence of vinyl as an alternative format for music consumption in the digital age. Based on interviews conducted during recent field research on the affectivity of popular music, I argue that youth consumers adopt the seemingly regressive technology of LPs and turntables to resist industry‐regulated contemporary modes of music consumption. Furthermore, their participation in vinyl culture enables them to counteract …
The shadow of the polls
Using Putnam's (1988) metaphor of two‐level games, we consider the relationship between international agreements and domestic elections. We develop a Reversion Point game to reflect the anarchy of the international system. In this game, deals last only as long as both sides continue to support them. When nations form international agreements, they do so knowing how these agreements affect future renegotiations. Rather than model the electorate as…
Child Welfare as Child Protection Then and Now
The research reported here builds on the work of one of the authors who, some thirteen years ago, in a similar study, examined the potential for social workers to shift from a child protection to a child welfare practice orientation. As with the original research study, this present project seeks to examine the everyday practices of social workers with children and families as revealed by file analysis, vignette questionnaires (reported here) and…
Child Welfare Interventions
Some 10 years ago one of the authors embarked on a research study examining the potential for social workers to shift from a child protection to a child welfare practice orientation (Spratt, 2000; 2001; Spratt and Callan, 2004). The research reported here develops that work; examining how social workers respond to ‘child care problems’ (CCPs). The results indicate that Northern Irish Health and Social Services Trusts (equivalent to Local Authorit…
Understanding informal kinship care
Many children are cared for on a full-time basis by relatives or adult friends, rather than their biological parents, and often in response to family crises. These kinship care arrangements have received increasing attention from the social sciences academy and social care professions. However, more information is needed on informal kinship care that is undertaken without official ratification by welfare agencies and often unsupported by the stat…
Social Work Students Learn about Social Work Values from Service Users and Carers
Teaching on social work values is centrally important in social work education as a core aspect of underpinning knowledge in preparing students for practice. This paper describes an innovative project occurring within the first year of the degree in social work, where service users and carers have assisted students with their understanding of social work values. The positive contribution of service users and carers in facilitating students to mak…
Permanency Decisions in Child Welfare
This article presents findings from an exploratory in-depth qualitative research project with seventeen child welfare professionals exploring their permanency decisions with regards to Looked after Children. Thinking aloud-protocols and semi-structured interviews, in conjunction with a specifically constructed vignette were used to explore the permanency decisions of child welfare workers. Findings from this innovative research suggest that diffe…
Gaining Access to Data Sources in Statutory Social Work Agencies
Journal Article Gaining Access to Data Sources in Statutory Social Work Agencies: The Long and Winding Road Get access David Hayes David Hayes David Hayes was previously employed as a Training and Development Coordinator by North and West Belfast Health and Social Services Trust in Northern Ireland. He was seconded to the School of Social Work, Queen's University of Belfast in order to undertake a research study entitled 'Parental Reaction to Chi…
The Influences of Training and Experience in Removal and Reunification Decisions Involving Children at Risk of Maltreatment
The question of the extent to which qualifying education prepares social work students to become effective practitioners has long been debated. This article reports the quantitative findings of the UK arm of a four-country comparative study that sought to explore one critical quality of a competent social worker—their ability to make decisions about individuals at risk, and to take appropriate action. The study involved 202 social work practition…
A baseline survey of levels of motivation, well-being, and employment preferences of newly qualified social workers in the UK
The aim of this study is to examine levels of motivation, wellbeing, and employment preferences of newly qualified social workers who graduated in 2022. A mixed-method study design was employed using standardized measurements for wellbeing, measurable scales for motivation and employment preferences, and qualitative questions about job preferences. The online survey was completed by 176 final-year social work students in Northern Ireland during t…
Hurting
In the context of increasing regulation of social workers internationally, this study examines allegations made to a UK social work regulator, the Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC), by service users and carers. A retrospective review of 134 records relating to such allegations during the ten-year period 2006–2015 was undertaken, representing just over one-third (36.4 per cent) of all allegations received. Allegations were made primaril…
How Power Dynamics and Relationships Interact with Assessment of Competence
Students have identified practice placements (or practice learning) as the single most important factor of social work education, but it is usually where issues of professional suitability become apparent. Whilst most students successfully complete their placements, a number experience difficulty and a minority ultimately fail. Protecting the profession from students not deemed suitable for professional practice requires a rigorous gatekeeping fu…
Making It Real’
Service user and carer involvement (SUCI) in social work education in England is required by the profession's regulator, the Health and Care Professions Council. However, a recent study of eighty-three Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in England reported that, despite considerable progress in SUCI, there is no evidence that the learning derived from it is being transferred to social work practice. In this article, we describe a study that exa…
Hearing the voices of kinship foster carers in Northern Ireland
This study describes an investigation into the characteristics, needs and experiences of kinship foster carers in Northern Ireland. By adopting a mixed-methods approach with 54 carers, a number of salient themes was captured. The respondents were predominantly grandparents who experienced a significant incidence of health-related issues. The cohort also endured high levels of stress, particularly at the beginning stage of the foster placement. Co…
Against critical thinking pedagogy
Critical thinking pedagogy is misguided. Ostensibly a cure for narrowness of thought, by using the emotions appropriate to conflict, it names only one mode of relation to material among many others. Ostensibly a cure for fallacies, critical thinking tends to dishonesty in practice because it habitually leaps to premature ideas of what the object or student is asserting. Most importantly, critical thinking pedagogy assumes that students start out …
The shadow of the polls
Using Putnam's (1988) metaphor of two‐level games, we consider the relationship between international agreements and domestic elections. We develop a Reversion Point game to reflect the anarchy of the international system. In this game, deals last only as long as both sides continue to support them. When nations form international agreements, they do so knowing how these agreements affect future renegotiations. Rather than model the electorate as…
Take Those Old Records off the Shelf”
This paper analyzes the (re)emergence of vinyl as an alternative format for music consumption in the digital age. Based on interviews conducted during recent field research on the affectivity of popular music, I argue that youth consumers adopt the seemingly regressive technology of LPs and turntables to resist industry‐regulated contemporary modes of music consumption. Furthermore, their participation in vinyl culture enables them to counteract …
Gaining Access to Data Sources in Statutory Social Work Agencies
Journal Article Gaining Access to Data Sources in Statutory Social Work Agencies: The Long and Winding Road Get access David Hayes David Hayes David Hayes was previously employed as a Training and Development Coordinator by North and West Belfast Health and Social Services Trust in Northern Ireland. He was seconded to the School of Social Work, Queen's University of Belfast in order to undertake a research study entitled 'Parental Reaction to Chi…
Lifeworld', 'System' and Family Group Conferences
From New York to L.A.”
This discography examines the mythologizing of America through popular music, using a selection of songs that identify specific US cities and states. Analysis is categorized according to American geographic areas commonly referred to as the West, the Midwest, the Northeast and the South. A selected discography of recordings from 1924 to 2006 follows, arranged alphabetically according to artist
Eccentric Soul
Child Welfare Interventions
Some 10 years ago one of the authors embarked on a research study examining the potential for social workers to shift from a child protection to a child welfare practice orientation (Spratt, 2000; 2001; Spratt and Callan, 2004). The research reported here develops that work; examining how social workers respond to ‘child care problems’ (CCPs). The results indicate that Northern Irish Health and Social Services Trusts (equivalent to Local Authorit…
Social Work Students Learn about Social Work Values from Service Users and Carers
Teaching on social work values is centrally important in social work education as a core aspect of underpinning knowledge in preparing students for practice. This paper describes an innovative project occurring within the first year of the degree in social work, where service users and carers have assisted students with their understanding of social work values. The positive contribution of service users and carers in facilitating students to mak…
Child Welfare as Child Protection Then and Now
The research reported here builds on the work of one of the authors who, some thirteen years ago, in a similar study, examined the potential for social workers to shift from a child protection to a child welfare practice orientation. As with the original research study, this present project seeks to examine the everyday practices of social workers with children and families as revealed by file analysis, vignette questionnaires (reported here) and…
Decision making in child protection
Against critical thinking pedagogy
Critical thinking pedagogy is misguided. Ostensibly a cure for narrowness of thought, by using the emotions appropriate to conflict, it names only one mode of relation to material among many others. Ostensibly a cure for fallacies, critical thinking tends to dishonesty in practice because it habitually leaps to premature ideas of what the object or student is asserting. Most importantly, critical thinking pedagogy assumes that students start out …
Rethinking Ebony White
Hearing the voices of kinship foster carers in Northern Ireland
This study describes an investigation into the characteristics, needs and experiences of kinship foster carers in Northern Ireland. By adopting a mixed-methods approach with 54 carers, a number of salient themes was captured. The respondents were predominantly grandparents who experienced a significant incidence of health-related issues. The cohort also endured high levels of stress, particularly at the beginning stage of the foster placement. Co…
Understanding informal kinship care
Many children are cared for on a full-time basis by relatives or adult friends, rather than their biological parents, and often in response to family crises. These kinship care arrangements have received increasing attention from the social sciences academy and social care professions. However, more information is needed on informal kinship care that is undertaken without official ratification by welfare agencies and often unsupported by the stat…
Making It Real’
Service user and carer involvement (SUCI) in social work education in England is required by the profession's regulator, the Health and Care Professions Council. However, a recent study of eighty-three Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in England reported that, despite considerable progress in SUCI, there is no evidence that the learning derived from it is being transferred to social work practice. In this article, we describe a study that exa…
The Influences of Training and Experience in Removal and Reunification Decisions Involving Children at Risk of Maltreatment
The question of the extent to which qualifying education prepares social work students to become effective practitioners has long been debated. This article reports the quantitative findings of the UK arm of a four-country comparative study that sought to explore one critical quality of a competent social worker—their ability to make decisions about individuals at risk, and to take appropriate action. The study involved 202 social work practition…
Permanency Decisions in Child Welfare
This article presents findings from an exploratory in-depth qualitative research project with seventeen child welfare professionals exploring their permanency decisions with regards to Looked after Children. Thinking aloud-protocols and semi-structured interviews, in conjunction with a specifically constructed vignette were used to explore the permanency decisions of child welfare workers. Findings from this innovative research suggest that diffe…
Social work students on the island of Ireland
Understanding the characteristics, motivations, and experiences of student social workers is important to inform their professional education and support needs. To date, there has been relatively little research about social work students in Ireland, both North and South. This study reports on an all-Ireland survey of students beginning their social work course in Autumn 2018 in the six Universities delivering social work education. It describes …
How Power Dynamics and Relationships Interact with Assessment of Competence
Students have identified practice placements (or practice learning) as the single most important factor of social work education, but it is usually where issues of professional suitability become apparent. Whilst most students successfully complete their placements, a number experience difficulty and a minority ultimately fail. Protecting the profession from students not deemed suitable for professional practice requires a rigorous gatekeeping fu…
To fail or not to fail
Social Work qualifying programmes teach students the necessary knowledge, skills, and values during a series of taught modules. Formal opportunities to integrate knowledge into practice are provided through practice placements in social work agencies. Each practice placement enables agency and/or academic staff to gate-keep entry into the profession, through assessing student competence against agreed practice learning requirements, readiness to …
Evaluating shortlisting methods for admission into the social work degree
Oversubscribed social work (SW) courses and a workforce review in Northern Ireland prompted a review of admissions, to ensure recruitment of applicants with strong core values. Concerns regarding authorship, plagiarism and reliability of personal statements, and calls for values-based recruitment underpinned this research. This study evaluates psychometric properties of an SW specific personal statement (PS) and a values-based psychological scree…
Conducting large‐scale mixed‐method research on harm and abuse prevention with children under 12
This paper reports on a feasibility study for an evaluation of a UK primary school‐based prevention programme that addresses multiple forms of abuse and neglect, identifying research design and ethical issues and exploring research practice. For this feasibility study, 194 children aged 6–11 years completed a baseline survey and 113 did so following the intervention. Eight focus groups were undertaken with 52 children and nine interviews with sch…
Hurting
In the context of increasing regulation of social workers internationally, this study examines allegations made to a UK social work regulator, the Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC), by service users and carers. A retrospective review of 134 records relating to such allegations during the ten-year period 2006–2015 was undertaken, representing just over one-third (36.4 per cent) of all allegations received. Allegations were made primaril…
Understanding the education of children and young people in residential care
The aim of this article was to conduct a systematic review of the barriers and enablers to positive educational outcomes and experiences for children and young people in residential care. This systematic review follows the SCIE methodology for systematic reviews and aims to fill the gap in literature regarding the barriers and enablers to positive educational outcomes and experiences. Seven databases were searched using a refined search strategy.…
A baseline survey of levels of motivation, well-being, and employment preferences of newly qualified social workers in the UK
The aim of this study is to examine levels of motivation, wellbeing, and employment preferences of newly qualified social workers who graduated in 2022. A mixed-method study design was employed using standardized measurements for wellbeing, measurable scales for motivation and employment preferences, and qualitative questions about job preferences. The online survey was completed by 176 final-year social work students in Northern Ireland during t…
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Social Work (14 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (13 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Medical education (8 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (6 works)