Jo Finch
Biographic Data
| ID | 6023795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jo Finch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jo |
| FAMILY NAME | Finch |
| SIGNATURE | FINCH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7813-0046 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – the experiences of social work practice educators in three organisations in England
This article explores the experiences of social work practice educators (PEs) in three organizations in England and focuses on the reasons PEs continue in their role alongside the challenges they encounter. This is important given broader persistent concerns about workforce recruitment and retention within the field of social work. The qualitative findings are categorized into three overarching themes: ‘the Good’, ‘the Bad’ and ‘the Ugly’. The re…
I do not know if I will have the energy to come to placement tomorrow ’
We build upon previous work that explored the evidence base of ‘failure to fail’ on practice placements across professions. We found a lack of convincing evidence of ‘fail to fail’ within assessed practice learning placements and could not ascertain the extent of this issue. The literature was stronger about why it ‘might’ or ‘could’ be difficult to fail students on placement. We concluded that if there was a reluctance to fail students, that hes…
Health Status And Delays In Referral-To-Treatment Waiting Times for Elective Admissions of Adults From Deprived Areas And Ethnic Minority Backgrounds
We studied all patients (total 53,611) whose referral-to-treatment (RTT) ended in hospital admission ('admitted pathways') between 01/2019 and 12/2023. Their health status and RTT waiting times were related to indices of deprivation (IMD: combined data from income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers to housing and services, and living environment) and to ethnicities (87% Caucasians; 6% South Asians; 5.1% Other Ethnicities; 0.9% Blacks…
Failure to fail or fast tracking to failure
Failure to Fail” has emerged as a popular soundbite in professions with assessed practice learning requirements and implies that practice educators and mentors are routinely failing to fail students, who do not meet the required placement standards. This suggests there may be people in a number of professions, who are not competent, and may pose potential risks to service users or patients. This position has been particularly vociferous in nursin…
Using [un]popular culture in social work education
Traditional social work education in the UK has been successful in terms of widening participation, although there are some threats to this. Within the post 92 university sector in particular, social work students come from a diverse range of backgrounds. Some of these students will not have had positive experiences of formative education or would have been subject to state discrimination and hostility. We report on the use of pedagogical approac…
Social work and countering violent extremism in Sweden and the UK
Social Work in Europe, is now being tasked with managing the ‘problems’ of terrorism, i.e supporting those affected by terrorist attacks, managing returnees affiliated with Terrorist groups in the Middle East, or, as will be discussed here, identifying those at risk from radicalisation and extremism. Both Britain and Sweden have Counter-Terrorism policies, but recent developments in both countries have made it a statutory requirement for social w…
Downpressor man’
The Counter Terrorism and Security Act came into force in July 2015 in the UK. This places a statutory duty on many front-line organisations, for example, schools, social services and prisons, to work within the PREVENT agenda, a policy arising from Britain’s overall counterterrorism policy, CONTEST. We argue that PREVENT is representative of increasingly securitised social policies that serve to: first, view people within particular individualis…
Under Heavy Manners?’
The ‘war on terror’ signalled a new type of warfare—one that accorded with the features of what Surkov argues is non-linear war ( Pomerantsev, 2014). Traditional war that takes place in a particular geographical location, with an identifiable enemy, is no more. Instead, warfare is a more fluid phenomenon. The paper argues that Surkov's concept can be usefully applied to current developments in social work practice in the UK. We trace the origins …
The Social Work Field Instructor Survival Guide, Melissa A. Hensley
The book claims to be a ‘guidebook’—one that ‘practicum supervisors can refer to when issues or challenges arise’ (p. xiv) during the course of a practicum. It also claims to be the first ‘all-inclusive resource for training social work students in the field’. The edited book is written for the American market and would ultimately be intended for new field or practicum supervisors and, as such, it makes connections to the Council for Social Work …
Running with the Fox and Hunting with the Hounds’
The paper explores the issues raised by social work students failing in practice learning settings \nfrom the perspective of university tutors, by drawing on existing literature in this area from \nsocial work and nursing, as well as findings from a small‐scale empirical qualitative study. The \nqualitative study was influenced by practitioner‐researcher and practice‐near paradigms; and is \nbased on interviews with twelve social work tutors in E…
It's been hell.’ Italian and British practice educators’ narratives of working with struggling or failing social work students in practice learning settings
Periods of assessed learning in practice settings are common requirements for social work students worldwide. The ‘practice learning opportunity’ as it is known in the UK, and ‘tirocinio di servizio sociale’ as it is referred to in Italy, are important sites of gatekeeping in preventing unsuitable people from becoming social workers. The experience of assessing failing students in practice learning settings, however, has been found to be particul…
The Social Workers Guide to Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Social work and countering violent extremism in Sweden and the UK
Social Work in Europe, is now being tasked with managing the ‘problems’ of terrorism, i.e supporting those affected by terrorist attacks, managing returnees affiliated with Terrorist groups in the Middle East, or, as will be discussed here, identifying those at risk from radicalisation and extremism. Both Britain and Sweden have Counter-Terrorism policies, but recent developments in both countries have made it a statutory requirement for social w…
It's been hell.’ Italian and British practice educators’ narratives of working with struggling or failing social work students in practice learning settings
Periods of assessed learning in practice settings are common requirements for social work students worldwide. The ‘practice learning opportunity’ as it is known in the UK, and ‘tirocinio di servizio sociale’ as it is referred to in Italy, are important sites of gatekeeping in preventing unsuitable people from becoming social workers. The experience of assessing failing students in practice learning settings, however, has been found to be particul…
Downpressor man’
The Counter Terrorism and Security Act came into force in July 2015 in the UK. This places a statutory duty on many front-line organisations, for example, schools, social services and prisons, to work within the PREVENT agenda, a policy arising from Britain’s overall counterterrorism policy, CONTEST. We argue that PREVENT is representative of increasingly securitised social policies that serve to: first, view people within particular individualis…
Running with the Fox and Hunting with the Hounds’
The paper explores the issues raised by social work students failing in practice learning settings \nfrom the perspective of university tutors, by drawing on existing literature in this area from \nsocial work and nursing, as well as findings from a small‐scale empirical qualitative study. The \nqualitative study was influenced by practitioner‐researcher and practice‐near paradigms; and is \nbased on interviews with twelve social work tutors in E…
I do not know if I will have the energy to come to placement tomorrow ’
We build upon previous work that explored the evidence base of ‘failure to fail’ on practice placements across professions. We found a lack of convincing evidence of ‘fail to fail’ within assessed practice learning placements and could not ascertain the extent of this issue. The literature was stronger about why it ‘might’ or ‘could’ be difficult to fail students on placement. We concluded that if there was a reluctance to fail students, that hes…
Under Heavy Manners?’
The ‘war on terror’ signalled a new type of warfare—one that accorded with the features of what Surkov argues is non-linear war ( Pomerantsev, 2014). Traditional war that takes place in a particular geographical location, with an identifiable enemy, is no more. Instead, warfare is a more fluid phenomenon. The paper argues that Surkov's concept can be usefully applied to current developments in social work practice in the UK. We trace the origins …
The Social Workers Guide to Child and Adolescent Mental Health
The Social Workers Guide to Child and Adolescent Mental Health
It's been hell.’ Italian and British practice educators’ narratives of working with struggling or failing social work students in practice learning settings
Periods of assessed learning in practice settings are common requirements for social work students worldwide. The ‘practice learning opportunity’ as it is known in the UK, and ‘tirocinio di servizio sociale’ as it is referred to in Italy, are important sites of gatekeeping in preventing unsuitable people from becoming social workers. The experience of assessing failing students in practice learning settings, however, has been found to be particul…
Running with the Fox and Hunting with the Hounds’
The paper explores the issues raised by social work students failing in practice learning settings \nfrom the perspective of university tutors, by drawing on existing literature in this area from \nsocial work and nursing, as well as findings from a small‐scale empirical qualitative study. The \nqualitative study was influenced by practitioner‐researcher and practice‐near paradigms; and is \nbased on interviews with twelve social work tutors in E…
The Social Work Field Instructor Survival Guide, Melissa A. Hensley
The book claims to be a ‘guidebook’—one that ‘practicum supervisors can refer to when issues or challenges arise’ (p. xiv) during the course of a practicum. It also claims to be the first ‘all-inclusive resource for training social work students in the field’. The edited book is written for the American market and would ultimately be intended for new field or practicum supervisors and, as such, it makes connections to the Council for Social Work …
Downpressor man’
The Counter Terrorism and Security Act came into force in July 2015 in the UK. This places a statutory duty on many front-line organisations, for example, schools, social services and prisons, to work within the PREVENT agenda, a policy arising from Britain’s overall counterterrorism policy, CONTEST. We argue that PREVENT is representative of increasingly securitised social policies that serve to: first, view people within particular individualis…
Under Heavy Manners?’
The ‘war on terror’ signalled a new type of warfare—one that accorded with the features of what Surkov argues is non-linear war ( Pomerantsev, 2014). Traditional war that takes place in a particular geographical location, with an identifiable enemy, is no more. Instead, warfare is a more fluid phenomenon. The paper argues that Surkov's concept can be usefully applied to current developments in social work practice in the UK. We trace the origins …
Social work and countering violent extremism in Sweden and the UK
Social Work in Europe, is now being tasked with managing the ‘problems’ of terrorism, i.e supporting those affected by terrorist attacks, managing returnees affiliated with Terrorist groups in the Middle East, or, as will be discussed here, identifying those at risk from radicalisation and extremism. Both Britain and Sweden have Counter-Terrorism policies, but recent developments in both countries have made it a statutory requirement for social w…
Failure to fail or fast tracking to failure
Failure to Fail” has emerged as a popular soundbite in professions with assessed practice learning requirements and implies that practice educators and mentors are routinely failing to fail students, who do not meet the required placement standards. This suggests there may be people in a number of professions, who are not competent, and may pose potential risks to service users or patients. This position has been particularly vociferous in nursin…
Using [un]popular culture in social work education
Traditional social work education in the UK has been successful in terms of widening participation, although there are some threats to this. Within the post 92 university sector in particular, social work students come from a diverse range of backgrounds. Some of these students will not have had positive experiences of formative education or would have been subject to state discrimination and hostility. We report on the use of pedagogical approac…
I do not know if I will have the energy to come to placement tomorrow ’
We build upon previous work that explored the evidence base of ‘failure to fail’ on practice placements across professions. We found a lack of convincing evidence of ‘fail to fail’ within assessed practice learning placements and could not ascertain the extent of this issue. The literature was stronger about why it ‘might’ or ‘could’ be difficult to fail students on placement. We concluded that if there was a reluctance to fail students, that hes…
Health Status And Delays In Referral-To-Treatment Waiting Times for Elective Admissions of Adults From Deprived Areas And Ethnic Minority Backgrounds
We studied all patients (total 53,611) whose referral-to-treatment (RTT) ended in hospital admission ('admitted pathways') between 01/2019 and 12/2023. Their health status and RTT waiting times were related to indices of deprivation (IMD: combined data from income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers to housing and services, and living environment) and to ethnicities (87% Caucasians; 6% South Asians; 5.1% Other Ethnicities; 0.9% Blacks…
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – the experiences of social work practice educators in three organisations in England
This article explores the experiences of social work practice educators (PEs) in three organizations in England and focuses on the reasons PEs continue in their role alongside the challenges they encounter. This is important given broader persistent concerns about workforce recruitment and retention within the field of social work. The qualitative findings are categorized into three overarching themes: ‘the Good’, ‘the Bad’ and ‘the Ugly’. The re…
Political science (10 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (10 works) · Social Work (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works)