Lisa Bostock
Biographic Data
| ID | 306501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Bostock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Bostock |
| SIGNATURE | BOSTOCK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bedfordshire |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2714-9687 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 170 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Stay and stay well
Background: Supporting students undertaking professional courses in health and social care prepare for the realities of integrated care is essential to retention of a highly skilled integrated workforce. Globally, it is estimated that there will be a shortfall of 10 million healthcare workers worldwide by 2030 (1). At the same time, ethnic diversity and an ageing population will require inclusive person-centred care. What is the issue: While sati…
What Knowledge and Skills Do Early Career Social Workers Need to Practice Effectively With Children and Families
There is an extensive literature base about the knowledge and skills required by social workers to work effectively with children and their families. However, making sense of how best to translate this into direct practice can be challenging, particularly when newly qualified. The paper is based on a wider rapid evidence assessment (REA) of the post‐qualifying knowledge and skills required by early career social workers (ECSWs) to practice effect…
It’s a tough gig’
Senior leaders are responsible for providing containment for practitioners navigating the emotional challenges of complex safeguarding work with children and families. This requires attention to the defences, uncertainties, and anxieties that such leadership responsibilities provoke. However, little is written about the stress and anxieties experienced by leaders or the supportive mechanisms they need. Creating containment across an organization …
Supporting Health and Social Care Students Stay and Stay Well
Integrated care demands a workforce that is confident, capable and compassionate. This is dependent on a willingness to work inter-professionally and understand the roles, standards and values of other professional groups. However, there are few examples of integrated care initiatives within higher education that aim to build the knowledge and skills required to support effective integrated, people-centred care. While satisfying, working in the h…
‘I know how it sounds on paper’ risk talk, the use of documents and epistemic justice in child protection assessment home visits
Social workers carry much of the frontline authority to define risk to children and discuss it with families. Assessment reports and other institutional documents record professional views about family information, and also have the potential to convey the ‘voice’ of the family to institutions. Social workers have responsibility for sharing these documents with families, yet little is known about how they do this. This paper focuses on episodes w…
Why does systemic supervision support practitioners’ practice more effectively with children and families
The importance of supervision for social work practice is widely accepted. This paper focuses on one type of supervision: systemic group supervision or “systemic supervision”. Systemic social work practice is generally a group-based, multi-disciplinary model of service delivery that aims to work therapeutically with the whole family. Central to this model is the use of systemically-informed group supervision. This has been shown to impact positiv…
What is the impact of supervision on direct practice with families
How do we assess the quality of group supervision? Developing a coding framework
Factors that promote and hinder joint and integrated working between health and social care services
This article reports the results of a review of the research evidence related to joint working in the field of adult health and social care services in the UK. It explores whether recent reforms to joint working have met the objectives set by policy-makers. The review followed an established methodology: electronic databases were searched using predetermined terms, abstracts were screened against inclusion criteria, studies that met the criteria …
The surprisingly weak evidence base for supervision
By private arrangement? safeguarding the welfare of private foster children
A key characteristic of debates on caring for children has been the distinction made between the public and the private or formal and informal sector of care. In particular, the impact on adult relationships of the material, emotional and moral dimensions of this division has been highlighted. What are the implications for children, however, of regarding the child care arrangements made by adults as private affairs between parent and provider? Th…
Contested Housing Landscapes? Social Inclusion, Deinstitutionalisation and Housing Policy in Australia
Deinstitutionalisation is represented as a major step toward social inclusion through the resettlement of disabled people residing in segregated large‐scale institutions into community‐based homes. By promoting the right to live in ordinary community residential settings, deinstitutionalisation fundamentally changes both the support services and housing arrangements of former institutional residents. In Australia, as in many western countries, de…
A proper place to live
Historical Data for Health Inequalities Research
In 1999-2000, a pilot study was conducted to assess the feasibility of using local historical archives and oral histories to map historical factors that may be important in understanding contemporary variations in health. Focusing on housing clearances in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, the pilot study drew on a wide range of materials (documentary and oral) to explore how changes to local housing impacted upon the local social and psychological land…
Beyond 'beer, fags, egg and chips'? Exploring lay understandings of social inequalities in health
This paper seeks to contribute to the limited body of work that has directly explored lay understandings of the causes of health inequalities. Using both quantitative and qualitative methodology, the views of people living in contrasting socio-economic neighbourhoods are compared. The findings support previous research in suggesting that lay theories about causality in relation to health inequalities, like lay concepts of health and illness in ge…
God, she's gonna report me’
The ethics of social research with children has been the source of considerable debate. In particular, issues of how to address potential disclosures of child abuse have been highlighted. What ethical implications are raised, however, when children are the indirect focus of the research? This paper explores the ethical dilemmas of conducting research with mothers about their experiences of caring for children. It is based on qualitative research …
Pathways of disadvantage? Walking as a mode of transport among low-income mothers
Research shows that lack of car ownership is associated with poorer health. It is often assumed that the reason for this observed relationship is that access to a car--or not--reflects access to household assets. Consequently, lack of car ownership is used as a standard marker of low socio-economic status. However, little attention has been paid to the experience of carlessness in the context of disadvantaged lives. This paper argues that "no acc…
A proper place to live
Beyond 'beer, fags, egg and chips'? Exploring lay understandings of social inequalities in health
This paper seeks to contribute to the limited body of work that has directly explored lay understandings of the causes of health inequalities. Using both quantitative and qualitative methodology, the views of people living in contrasting socio-economic neighbourhoods are compared. The findings support previous research in suggesting that lay theories about causality in relation to health inequalities, like lay concepts of health and illness in ge…
What is the impact of supervision on direct practice with families
How do we assess the quality of group supervision? Developing a coding framework
Historical Data for Health Inequalities Research
In 1999-2000, a pilot study was conducted to assess the feasibility of using local historical archives and oral histories to map historical factors that may be important in understanding contemporary variations in health. Focusing on housing clearances in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, the pilot study drew on a wide range of materials (documentary and oral) to explore how changes to local housing impacted upon the local social and psychological land…
Contested Housing Landscapes? Social Inclusion, Deinstitutionalisation and Housing Policy in Australia
Deinstitutionalisation is represented as a major step toward social inclusion through the resettlement of disabled people residing in segregated large‐scale institutions into community‐based homes. By promoting the right to live in ordinary community residential settings, deinstitutionalisation fundamentally changes both the support services and housing arrangements of former institutional residents. In Australia, as in many western countries, de…
Pathways of disadvantage? Walking as a mode of transport among low-income mothers
Research shows that lack of car ownership is associated with poorer health. It is often assumed that the reason for this observed relationship is that access to a car--or not--reflects access to household assets. Consequently, lack of car ownership is used as a standard marker of low socio-economic status. However, little attention has been paid to the experience of carlessness in the context of disadvantaged lives. This paper argues that "no acc…
God, she's gonna report me’
The ethics of social research with children has been the source of considerable debate. In particular, issues of how to address potential disclosures of child abuse have been highlighted. What ethical implications are raised, however, when children are the indirect focus of the research? This paper explores the ethical dilemmas of conducting research with mothers about their experiences of caring for children. It is based on qualitative research …
A proper place to live
Historical Data for Health Inequalities Research
In 1999-2000, a pilot study was conducted to assess the feasibility of using local historical archives and oral histories to map historical factors that may be important in understanding contemporary variations in health. Focusing on housing clearances in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, the pilot study drew on a wide range of materials (documentary and oral) to explore how changes to local housing impacted upon the local social and psychological land…
Beyond 'beer, fags, egg and chips'? Exploring lay understandings of social inequalities in health
This paper seeks to contribute to the limited body of work that has directly explored lay understandings of the causes of health inequalities. Using both quantitative and qualitative methodology, the views of people living in contrasting socio-economic neighbourhoods are compared. The findings support previous research in suggesting that lay theories about causality in relation to health inequalities, like lay concepts of health and illness in ge…
By private arrangement? safeguarding the welfare of private foster children
A key characteristic of debates on caring for children has been the distinction made between the public and the private or formal and informal sector of care. In particular, the impact on adult relationships of the material, emotional and moral dimensions of this division has been highlighted. What are the implications for children, however, of regarding the child care arrangements made by adults as private affairs between parent and provider? Th…
Contested Housing Landscapes? Social Inclusion, Deinstitutionalisation and Housing Policy in Australia
Deinstitutionalisation is represented as a major step toward social inclusion through the resettlement of disabled people residing in segregated large‐scale institutions into community‐based homes. By promoting the right to live in ordinary community residential settings, deinstitutionalisation fundamentally changes both the support services and housing arrangements of former institutional residents. In Australia, as in many western countries, de…
The surprisingly weak evidence base for supervision
Factors that promote and hinder joint and integrated working between health and social care services
This article reports the results of a review of the research evidence related to joint working in the field of adult health and social care services in the UK. It explores whether recent reforms to joint working have met the objectives set by policy-makers. The review followed an established methodology: electronic databases were searched using predetermined terms, abstracts were screened against inclusion criteria, studies that met the criteria …
What is the impact of supervision on direct practice with families
How do we assess the quality of group supervision? Developing a coding framework
‘I know how it sounds on paper’ risk talk, the use of documents and epistemic justice in child protection assessment home visits
Social workers carry much of the frontline authority to define risk to children and discuss it with families. Assessment reports and other institutional documents record professional views about family information, and also have the potential to convey the ‘voice’ of the family to institutions. Social workers have responsibility for sharing these documents with families, yet little is known about how they do this. This paper focuses on episodes w…
Why does systemic supervision support practitioners’ practice more effectively with children and families
The importance of supervision for social work practice is widely accepted. This paper focuses on one type of supervision: systemic group supervision or “systemic supervision”. Systemic social work practice is generally a group-based, multi-disciplinary model of service delivery that aims to work therapeutically with the whole family. Central to this model is the use of systemically-informed group supervision. This has been shown to impact positiv…
Stay and stay well
Background: Supporting students undertaking professional courses in health and social care prepare for the realities of integrated care is essential to retention of a highly skilled integrated workforce. Globally, it is estimated that there will be a shortfall of 10 million healthcare workers worldwide by 2030 (1). At the same time, ethnic diversity and an ageing population will require inclusive person-centred care. What is the issue: While sati…
What Knowledge and Skills Do Early Career Social Workers Need to Practice Effectively With Children and Families
There is an extensive literature base about the knowledge and skills required by social workers to work effectively with children and their families. However, making sense of how best to translate this into direct practice can be challenging, particularly when newly qualified. The paper is based on a wider rapid evidence assessment (REA) of the post‐qualifying knowledge and skills required by early career social workers (ECSWs) to practice effect…
It’s a tough gig’
Senior leaders are responsible for providing containment for practitioners navigating the emotional challenges of complex safeguarding work with children and families. This requires attention to the defences, uncertainties, and anxieties that such leadership responsibilities provoke. However, little is written about the stress and anxieties experienced by leaders or the supportive mechanisms they need. Creating containment across an organization …
Supporting Health and Social Care Students Stay and Stay Well
Integrated care demands a workforce that is confident, capable and compassionate. This is dependent on a willingness to work inter-professionally and understand the roles, standards and values of other professional groups. However, there are few examples of integrated care initiatives within higher education that aim to build the knowledge and skills required to support effective integrated, people-centred care. While satisfying, working in the h…
Political science (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (6 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Child protection (4 works) · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (4 works)