Denise Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denise Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denise |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6059-8724 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
We’re not professionals when it comes to dogs: ’ Social work encounters with dogs and their implications for education and practice
In the past few years, there has been a rise in UK dog attacks, including fatal harm to children and detriment to social workers who were not able to adequately assess risks or were the subjects of direct dog attacks. This rise in attacks is accompanied by a growth in UK dog ownership, partly as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, making it increasingly likely that social workers will encounter dogs through their routine work. However, despite thi…
Not yet Ready for Direct Practice? How a Collaborative Shadowing Approach Supported Social Work Students to Achieve Positive Outcomes at Readiness for Direct Practice
‘A significant positive impact’: Delivering the End Point Assessment for the social work degree apprenticeship
Social Work Degree Apprenticeships were launched in England in 2019 as a pathway to professional qualification, which offered an alternative to the established Undergraduate and Post graduate social work training routes. The first apprenticeship cohorts have now completed their End Point Assessment (EPA) but with formats having been disputed from the inception of the English Degree, the pressure on institutions and staff delivering the EPA remain…
When Words Are Not Enough: Creative Responses to Grief, Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds
Journal Article When Words Are Not Enough: Creative Responses to Grief, Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds Get access When Words Are Not Enough: Creative Responses to Grief, Jane Harris Jimmy Edmonds, Hawthorn Books, UK, 2022, pp. xx +112, ISBN 978-1-91248-057-9, £19.99 (p/b) Denise Turner Denise Turner University of Chichester, UK [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6059-8724 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Memories from the Forgotten Frontline.’ Social Worker’s Reflections on Shifting Practices of Work, Home and Belonging during Covid-19
This article documents a creative and participatory research project with social workers that took place online during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Thirty-three social workers contributed images and captions to one or more of the four project themes: (i) Belonging and Connection; (ii) Health and Wellbeing; (iii) Home and Away and (iv) Loss and Change. The website became a digital archive of the contributions and a physical exhibition al…
Social Distance in Social Work: Covid Capsule One, Dominic Watters (ed.) and Shahid Naqvi (co-edited)
This is the second book focusing on the impacts of Covid-19 which I have reviewed, as well as editing two of my own. One of the many things which distinguish this small, yet powerful, book is the voice of its creator and curator, Dominic Watters, also known on social media as ‘SingleDadSW’, which is forcefully present throughout. I had the pleasure of being in the audience for Dominic’s Keynote Speech at the BASW Conference in 2022 and the book f…
Virtual wobble spaces: A pilot study of the outcomes of online therapeutic spaces on practitioner well-being and social work practice
Stress, emotional exhaustion and job dissatisfaction have been prevailing issues in social work for decades, with recent research by BASW demonstrating poor psychological outcomes for social workers, amidst inadequate levels of staff retention and high burn out rates. The Covid-19 pandemic added to these existing stresses, with social workers experiencing multiple losses, including bereavements and changes to working practices. As a response to t…
Covid-19 Collaborations: Researching Poverty and Low-Income Family Life during the Pandemic, Kayleigh Garthwaite, Ruth Patrick, Maddy Power, Anna Tarrant and Rosalie Warnock (eds)
During the past two and a half years, the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in the deaths of 206,000 in the UK alone and 6,000,000 worldwide (Our World in Data, 2022). These deaths have been accompanied by other compound forms of loss, alongside the exposure of multiple inequalities through, for example, job losses, digital exclusion and the costs of home schooling. Despite the narrative that we have left Covid-19 behind, it continues as an unseen h…
You Took me Back to the sea: Using Narrative to Explore and Inform the Practice of Social Work with Dying People
This article centres on a qualitative interview extract, the ‘Story of the Pebble’, in which a West African Hospital Social Worker Ado, working in a UK context, and identifying as a Shaman, describes successfully trusting his instincts to create a symbol for a dying patient. Despite criticisms from colleagues, Ado's capacity to understand his patients needs are justified both before and after her death. The article discusses significant themes fr…
‘Resilient when it comes to death’: Exploring the significance of bereavement for the well – being of social work students
This article describes a pilot qualitative research study, exploring the impact of bereavement experiences, on pre-qualifying social work students in two UK Universities with diverse demographics. The research study took place in the context of general concern about the mental health of UK University students and suggests that social work students may be at particular risk of developing emotional wellbeing issues linked to bereavement. Interviews…
Mutual ‘App’reciation: Co-production as a model for delivering digital capability within social work education
A major national project, commissioned by Health Education England and delivered by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, in partnership with the British Association of Social Workers is currently studying digital capabilities across the social work profession. The project aims to chart the existing landscape and produce ethical guidance, together with a set of digital capabilities, which will map to existing frameworks. The initial Stakehold…
Research You Cannot Talk About: A Personal Account of Researching Sudden, Unexpected Child Death
This article takes as its starting point the author’s personal experience of sudden, unexpected child death and the impetus this provided for research exploring the topic. The article charts the isolation which parents may experience following a sudden, unexpected child death and situates this within a cultural taboo around dying. The author further discusses her involvement as a researcher combining personal experience and academic study in a wa…
Psychosocial and Relationship-Based Practice
In the 2014 Independent Publishing Awards, Critical Publishing won the Best Newcomer category and their recent publication of Psychosocial and Relationship-Based Practice by Claudia Megele demonstrates clearly why they deserved the accolade. Relationship-based practice is enjoying a recent revival in popularity within social work, partly as a retaliation against austerity and social policies which reduce complex human lives to bureaucratic exerci…
‘Memories are made of this’: Personal reflections on the creation and maintenance of memorials and mementoes
In this article the author draws on personal experiences, amongst them the sudden, unexpected death of her own son, to explore the challenges and benefits of creating memorials and mementoes following a significant death. The article supports existing work which argues for the importance of mementoes in creating meaning, particularly in a culture where death is still largely sequestered from public discourse. The author uses examples from her son…
Ethics and/or Ethics in Qualitative Social Research: Negotiating a Path around and between the Two
This article explores the process of university Ethical Review both as lived experience and as part of institutional governance at an English university. The article uses Blackburn's distinction between ethics and Ethics (Ethics—A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001) as a framework to examine the themes of ‘vulnerability’, ‘power’ and ‘relationships’. These themes are analysed closely both within the institutional and t…
Preventing congenital tragedy: An opportunity for nursing
Recent advances in the care of pregnant diabetic women have resulted in reduced infant mortality and morbidity rates. Despite the advances, the incidence of death due to congenital malformations remains a major problem. Research findings in human and animal models indicate that avoidance of hyperglycemic states during the first 7 weeks of gestation results in a reduced incidence of congenital deformity to levels consistent with nondiabetic popula…
Ethics and/or Ethics in Qualitative Social Research: Negotiating a Path around and between the Two
This article explores the process of university Ethical Review both as lived experience and as part of institutional governance at an English university. The article uses Blackburn's distinction between ethics and Ethics (Ethics—A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001) as a framework to examine the themes of ‘vulnerability’, ‘power’ and ‘relationships’. These themes are analysed closely both within the institutional and t…
Memories from the Forgotten Frontline.’ Social Worker’s Reflections on Shifting Practices of Work, Home and Belonging during Covid-19
This article documents a creative and participatory research project with social workers that took place online during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Thirty-three social workers contributed images and captions to one or more of the four project themes: (i) Belonging and Connection; (ii) Health and Wellbeing; (iii) Home and Away and (iv) Loss and Change. The website became a digital archive of the contributions and a physical exhibition al…
Virtual wobble spaces: A pilot study of the outcomes of online therapeutic spaces on practitioner well-being and social work practice
Stress, emotional exhaustion and job dissatisfaction have been prevailing issues in social work for decades, with recent research by BASW demonstrating poor psychological outcomes for social workers, amidst inadequate levels of staff retention and high burn out rates. The Covid-19 pandemic added to these existing stresses, with social workers experiencing multiple losses, including bereavements and changes to working practices. As a response to t…
Preventing congenital tragedy: An opportunity for nursing
Recent advances in the care of pregnant diabetic women have resulted in reduced infant mortality and morbidity rates. Despite the advances, the incidence of death due to congenital malformations remains a major problem. Research findings in human and animal models indicate that avoidance of hyperglycemic states during the first 7 weeks of gestation results in a reduced incidence of congenital deformity to levels consistent with nondiabetic popula…
Ethics and/or Ethics in Qualitative Social Research: Negotiating a Path around and between the Two
This article explores the process of university Ethical Review both as lived experience and as part of institutional governance at an English university. The article uses Blackburn's distinction between ethics and Ethics (Ethics—A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001) as a framework to examine the themes of ‘vulnerability’, ‘power’ and ‘relationships’. These themes are analysed closely both within the institutional and t…
‘Memories are made of this’: Personal reflections on the creation and maintenance of memorials and mementoes
In this article the author draws on personal experiences, amongst them the sudden, unexpected death of her own son, to explore the challenges and benefits of creating memorials and mementoes following a significant death. The article supports existing work which argues for the importance of mementoes in creating meaning, particularly in a culture where death is still largely sequestered from public discourse. The author uses examples from her son…
Psychosocial and Relationship-Based Practice
In the 2014 Independent Publishing Awards, Critical Publishing won the Best Newcomer category and their recent publication of Psychosocial and Relationship-Based Practice by Claudia Megele demonstrates clearly why they deserved the accolade. Relationship-based practice is enjoying a recent revival in popularity within social work, partly as a retaliation against austerity and social policies which reduce complex human lives to bureaucratic exerci…
Research You Cannot Talk About: A Personal Account of Researching Sudden, Unexpected Child Death
This article takes as its starting point the author’s personal experience of sudden, unexpected child death and the impetus this provided for research exploring the topic. The article charts the isolation which parents may experience following a sudden, unexpected child death and situates this within a cultural taboo around dying. The author further discusses her involvement as a researcher combining personal experience and academic study in a wa…
‘Resilient when it comes to death’: Exploring the significance of bereavement for the well – being of social work students
This article describes a pilot qualitative research study, exploring the impact of bereavement experiences, on pre-qualifying social work students in two UK Universities with diverse demographics. The research study took place in the context of general concern about the mental health of UK University students and suggests that social work students may be at particular risk of developing emotional wellbeing issues linked to bereavement. Interviews…
Mutual ‘App’reciation: Co-production as a model for delivering digital capability within social work education
A major national project, commissioned by Health Education England and delivered by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, in partnership with the British Association of Social Workers is currently studying digital capabilities across the social work profession. The project aims to chart the existing landscape and produce ethical guidance, together with a set of digital capabilities, which will map to existing frameworks. The initial Stakehold…
Social Distance in Social Work: Covid Capsule One, Dominic Watters (ed.) and Shahid Naqvi (co-edited)
This is the second book focusing on the impacts of Covid-19 which I have reviewed, as well as editing two of my own. One of the many things which distinguish this small, yet powerful, book is the voice of its creator and curator, Dominic Watters, also known on social media as ‘SingleDadSW’, which is forcefully present throughout. I had the pleasure of being in the audience for Dominic’s Keynote Speech at the BASW Conference in 2022 and the book f…
Virtual wobble spaces: A pilot study of the outcomes of online therapeutic spaces on practitioner well-being and social work practice
Stress, emotional exhaustion and job dissatisfaction have been prevailing issues in social work for decades, with recent research by BASW demonstrating poor psychological outcomes for social workers, amidst inadequate levels of staff retention and high burn out rates. The Covid-19 pandemic added to these existing stresses, with social workers experiencing multiple losses, including bereavements and changes to working practices. As a response to t…
Covid-19 Collaborations: Researching Poverty and Low-Income Family Life during the Pandemic, Kayleigh Garthwaite, Ruth Patrick, Maddy Power, Anna Tarrant and Rosalie Warnock (eds)
During the past two and a half years, the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in the deaths of 206,000 in the UK alone and 6,000,000 worldwide (Our World in Data, 2022). These deaths have been accompanied by other compound forms of loss, alongside the exposure of multiple inequalities through, for example, job losses, digital exclusion and the costs of home schooling. Despite the narrative that we have left Covid-19 behind, it continues as an unseen h…
You Took me Back to the sea: Using Narrative to Explore and Inform the Practice of Social Work with Dying People
This article centres on a qualitative interview extract, the ‘Story of the Pebble’, in which a West African Hospital Social Worker Ado, working in a UK context, and identifying as a Shaman, describes successfully trusting his instincts to create a symbol for a dying patient. Despite criticisms from colleagues, Ado's capacity to understand his patients needs are justified both before and after her death. The article discusses significant themes fr…
‘A significant positive impact’: Delivering the End Point Assessment for the social work degree apprenticeship
Social Work Degree Apprenticeships were launched in England in 2019 as a pathway to professional qualification, which offered an alternative to the established Undergraduate and Post graduate social work training routes. The first apprenticeship cohorts have now completed their End Point Assessment (EPA) but with formats having been disputed from the inception of the English Degree, the pressure on institutions and staff delivering the EPA remain…
When Words Are Not Enough: Creative Responses to Grief, Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds
Journal Article When Words Are Not Enough: Creative Responses to Grief, Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds Get access When Words Are Not Enough: Creative Responses to Grief, Jane Harris Jimmy Edmonds, Hawthorn Books, UK, 2022, pp. xx +112, ISBN 978-1-91248-057-9, £19.99 (p/b) Denise Turner Denise Turner University of Chichester, UK [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6059-8724 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Memories from the Forgotten Frontline.’ Social Worker’s Reflections on Shifting Practices of Work, Home and Belonging during Covid-19
This article documents a creative and participatory research project with social workers that took place online during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Thirty-three social workers contributed images and captions to one or more of the four project themes: (i) Belonging and Connection; (ii) Health and Wellbeing; (iii) Home and Away and (iv) Loss and Change. The website became a digital archive of the contributions and a physical exhibition al…
We’re not professionals when it comes to dogs: ’ Social work encounters with dogs and their implications for education and practice
In the past few years, there has been a rise in UK dog attacks, including fatal harm to children and detriment to social workers who were not able to adequately assess risks or were the subjects of direct dog attacks. This rise in attacks is accompanied by a growth in UK dog ownership, partly as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, making it increasingly likely that social workers will encounter dogs through their routine work. However, despite thi…
Not yet Ready for Direct Practice? How a Collaborative Shadowing Approach Supported Social Work Students to Achieve Positive Outcomes at Readiness for Direct Practice
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Social Work (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (6 works)