Maria Leedham
Biographic Data
| ID | 6024166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Leedham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Leedham |
| SIGNATURE | LEEDHAM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0940-1383 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Direct quotations in social work writing
Writing comprises a core area of social work as a substantial amount of time is spent on producing case notes, assessment reports, and other required documentation in order to progress cases; however, little research has been carried out on social workers’ writing and, in particular, the specific discursive and rhetorical devices employed to create effective texts. One rhetorical device often employed in order to include the voices of service use…
Who is the ‘I’? An exploration of social work professional written discourse and implications for social work education
This paper brings together two areas of importance to social work education, professional identity and professional writing; identity is often viewed as central to social work practice and education, whilst writing as marginal.However, given that social work is a 'writing intensive' profession, writing is a key site of the enactment of professional identity and practice, meriting significant attention.Using the notion of 'voice' this paper explor…
Depictions of social workers and other caring professionals on television
Social workers, alongside many professionals in “caring” domains, often feel they are poorly represented in television dramas. This study draws on a 172-million-word database to consider how social workers and seven other professional groups (cop, doctor, nanny, nurse, priest, teacher, and therapist) are portrayed in English-medium TV programs in the period 2010–2017. IMDb plot summaries are analyzed, and 200 examples per profession (n = 1,600) a…
Social Workers Failed to Heed Warnings’
Previous research has indicated that social workers are portrayed negatively in the UK press, particularly in child protection cases. But what is the nature of this negativity? And are social workers also mentioned in more positive contexts? To explore these questions, a collection of three months of newspaper articles was compiled (early May to early August 2019), using the seed term ‘social worker(s)’. Almost 1,000 occurrences were located and …
Time, the Written Record, and Professional Practice
Drawing on a three-year ethnographically oriented study exploring contemporary professional social work writing, this article focuses on a key concern: the amount of time taken up with writing, or “paperwork.” We explore the relationship between time and professional social work writing in three key ways: (a) as a discrete, measurable phenomenon—how much time is spent on writing? (b) as a textual dimension to social work writing—how do institutio…
Literacy in the digital university
New Trends in Corpora and Language Learning
Academic Writing
Academic Writing
Social Workers Failed to Heed Warnings’
Previous research has indicated that social workers are portrayed negatively in the UK press, particularly in child protection cases. But what is the nature of this negativity? And are social workers also mentioned in more positive contexts? To explore these questions, a collection of three months of newspaper articles was compiled (early May to early August 2019), using the seed term ‘social worker(s)’. Almost 1,000 occurrences were located and …
New Trends in Corpora and Language Learning
Who is the ‘I’? An exploration of social work professional written discourse and implications for social work education
This paper brings together two areas of importance to social work education, professional identity and professional writing; identity is often viewed as central to social work practice and education, whilst writing as marginal.However, given that social work is a 'writing intensive' profession, writing is a key site of the enactment of professional identity and practice, meriting significant attention.Using the notion of 'voice' this paper explor…
Academic Writing
New Trends in Corpora and Language Learning
Literacy in the digital university
Time, the Written Record, and Professional Practice
Drawing on a three-year ethnographically oriented study exploring contemporary professional social work writing, this article focuses on a key concern: the amount of time taken up with writing, or “paperwork.” We explore the relationship between time and professional social work writing in three key ways: (a) as a discrete, measurable phenomenon—how much time is spent on writing? (b) as a textual dimension to social work writing—how do institutio…
Social Workers Failed to Heed Warnings’
Previous research has indicated that social workers are portrayed negatively in the UK press, particularly in child protection cases. But what is the nature of this negativity? And are social workers also mentioned in more positive contexts? To explore these questions, a collection of three months of newspaper articles was compiled (early May to early August 2019), using the seed term ‘social worker(s)’. Almost 1,000 occurrences were located and …
Depictions of social workers and other caring professionals on television
Social workers, alongside many professionals in “caring” domains, often feel they are poorly represented in television dramas. This study draws on a 172-million-word database to consider how social workers and seven other professional groups (cop, doctor, nanny, nurse, priest, teacher, and therapist) are portrayed in English-medium TV programs in the period 2010–2017. IMDb plot summaries are analyzed, and 200 examples per profession (n = 1,600) a…
Direct quotations in social work writing
Writing comprises a core area of social work as a substantial amount of time is spent on producing case notes, assessment reports, and other required documentation in order to progress cases; however, little research has been carried out on social workers’ writing and, in particular, the specific discursive and rhetorical devices employed to create effective texts. One rhetorical device often employed in order to include the voices of service use…
Who is the ‘I’? An exploration of social work professional written discourse and implications for social work education
This paper brings together two areas of importance to social work education, professional identity and professional writing; identity is often viewed as central to social work practice and education, whilst writing as marginal.However, given that social work is a 'writing intensive' profession, writing is a key site of the enactment of professional identity and practice, meriting significant attention.Using the notion of 'voice' this paper explor…
Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Work (4 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)