Anna Fairtlough
Biographic Data
| ID | 6025198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Fairtlough |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Fairtlough |
| SIGNATURE | FAIRTLOUGH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Intervision and Professional Development
‘Intervision’, a peer-led group reflection method, was introduced in a teaching partnership between a university and three local authorities to enhance the quality of social work education and support the development of a learning culture across the partnership. A review of the limited international research on Intervision shows almost entirely positive impacts but no studies in social work education. This article reports on research into impacts…
The Successful Reunification of Abused and Neglected Looked After Children with Their Families
Based on the underlying principle that all children have the right to be cared for by their birth family wherever it is safe to do so, this practitioner research study examined what works in family reunification practices for abused and neglected looked after children. The research used a case-file audit to explore the characteristics of forty-three children successfully returned home in one metropolitan local authority, and how social work pract…
Beyond Equal Access to Equal Outcomes
This paper is based on the first national qualitative study to examine diversity and progression within social work programmes in England, focusing on the experiences of disabled, black and ethnic minority and lesbian, gay and bisexual students. Data collected from ninety-five students and twenty-three social work education providers across eight higher education institutions (HEIs) suggested an institutional effect on rates of progression, linke…
A Qualitative Study of Marginalised Social Work Students' Views of Social Work Education and Learning
This article explores the experiences of social work students who viewed themselves to be multiply marginalised in universities in England. It draws on data from a Department of Health-funded study into Diversity and Progression that investigated the particular circumstances of black and ethnic minority, disabled, and lesbian, gay and bisexual students. In-depth interviews (forty-one) and focus groups (nine) were conducted with students and a wid…
Engaging Young Parents and Their Families in a Multi-family Group Work Intervention
This article offers a practice account of the pilot of an inclusive, community based, multi-family group intervention for young mothers and fathers, their children and extended family. Adapting this North American social work intervention, which is delivered by service user staff members, social work and health professionals, in a UK city demonstrated that young parents and their extended families could be engaged onto a programme designed to enh…
Experiences of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Students on Social Work Programmes
This article reports on a qualitative study with lesbian, gay and bisexual students and key informants from social work programmes and the wider higher education institution (HEI) that aimed to examine participants' views about this group of students' progression on and experiences of social work programmes in England. Student participants did not consider that their progression had been adversely affected by reactions to their sexual orientation…
Standards and training for work with parents across Europe
This paper examines processes and outcomes arising from an illuminative evaluation of a Leonardo da Vinci-funded project designed to develop a transnational network in Europe for practitioners working with parents. The project was successful in enabling information to be shared between the partners, in supporting individual partners to implement their own specific goals and in publicising the needs of the sector more widely. It was less successfu…
An evaluation of a groupwork intervention for teenage mothers and their families
This paper describes the implementation of a specific, community‐based, multi‐family group (MFG) intervention strategy (Families and Schools Together [FAST] babies) aimed at improving the outcomes for infants of teenage mothers in 11 Canadian communities. The aims of this social work group intervention were (1) to engage the teenage mothers into a socially inclusive experience that might challenge the social disapproval they often experience, (2)…
Growing up with a lesbian or gay parent
Drawing on life story approaches, this paper reports on a qualitative content analysis of 67 published accounts in the UK, USA and New Zealand of young people and adults reflecting on their experiences of growing up with one or more lesbian or gay parent(s). Responses of the young people to their parent's sexuality were categorised as predominantly positive, neutral, ambivalent and somewhat negative. Young people reported that they had experience…
Describing the needs of children presenting to children's services
Children's social services in England and Wales deal with a wide range of referrals of children who are or may be ‘in need’. Finding ways of describing the issues that present in such referrals is important if we wish to understand the nature of the work of children's services and explore different interventions and outcomes. Yet there have been few attempts to describe the full range of needs presenting to social services, and no studies of the …
Growing up with a lesbian or gay parent
Drawing on life story approaches, this paper reports on a qualitative content analysis of 67 published accounts in the UK, USA and New Zealand of young people and adults reflecting on their experiences of growing up with one or more lesbian or gay parent(s). Responses of the young people to their parent's sexuality were categorised as predominantly positive, neutral, ambivalent and somewhat negative. Young people reported that they had experience…
A Qualitative Study of Marginalised Social Work Students' Views of Social Work Education and Learning
This article explores the experiences of social work students who viewed themselves to be multiply marginalised in universities in England. It draws on data from a Department of Health-funded study into Diversity and Progression that investigated the particular circumstances of black and ethnic minority, disabled, and lesbian, gay and bisexual students. In-depth interviews (forty-one) and focus groups (nine) were conducted with students and a wid…
Beyond Equal Access to Equal Outcomes
This paper is based on the first national qualitative study to examine diversity and progression within social work programmes in England, focusing on the experiences of disabled, black and ethnic minority and lesbian, gay and bisexual students. Data collected from ninety-five students and twenty-three social work education providers across eight higher education institutions (HEIs) suggested an institutional effect on rates of progression, linke…
The Successful Reunification of Abused and Neglected Looked After Children with Their Families
Based on the underlying principle that all children have the right to be cared for by their birth family wherever it is safe to do so, this practitioner research study examined what works in family reunification practices for abused and neglected looked after children. The research used a case-file audit to explore the characteristics of forty-three children successfully returned home in one metropolitan local authority, and how social work pract…
Experiences of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Students on Social Work Programmes
This article reports on a qualitative study with lesbian, gay and bisexual students and key informants from social work programmes and the wider higher education institution (HEI) that aimed to examine participants' views about this group of students' progression on and experiences of social work programmes in England. Student participants did not consider that their progression had been adversely affected by reactions to their sexual orientation…
An evaluation of a groupwork intervention for teenage mothers and their families
This paper describes the implementation of a specific, community‐based, multi‐family group (MFG) intervention strategy (Families and Schools Together [FAST] babies) aimed at improving the outcomes for infants of teenage mothers in 11 Canadian communities. The aims of this social work group intervention were (1) to engage the teenage mothers into a socially inclusive experience that might challenge the social disapproval they often experience, (2)…
Describing the needs of children presenting to children's services
Children's social services in England and Wales deal with a wide range of referrals of children who are or may be ‘in need’. Finding ways of describing the issues that present in such referrals is important if we wish to understand the nature of the work of children's services and explore different interventions and outcomes. Yet there have been few attempts to describe the full range of needs presenting to social services, and no studies of the …
An evaluation of a groupwork intervention for teenage mothers and their families
This paper describes the implementation of a specific, community‐based, multi‐family group (MFG) intervention strategy (Families and Schools Together [FAST] babies) aimed at improving the outcomes for infants of teenage mothers in 11 Canadian communities. The aims of this social work group intervention were (1) to engage the teenage mothers into a socially inclusive experience that might challenge the social disapproval they often experience, (2)…
Growing up with a lesbian or gay parent
Drawing on life story approaches, this paper reports on a qualitative content analysis of 67 published accounts in the UK, USA and New Zealand of young people and adults reflecting on their experiences of growing up with one or more lesbian or gay parent(s). Responses of the young people to their parent's sexuality were categorised as predominantly positive, neutral, ambivalent and somewhat negative. Young people reported that they had experience…
Standards and training for work with parents across Europe
This paper examines processes and outcomes arising from an illuminative evaluation of a Leonardo da Vinci-funded project designed to develop a transnational network in Europe for practitioners working with parents. The project was successful in enabling information to be shared between the partners, in supporting individual partners to implement their own specific goals and in publicising the needs of the sector more widely. It was less successfu…
Engaging Young Parents and Their Families in a Multi-family Group Work Intervention
This article offers a practice account of the pilot of an inclusive, community based, multi-family group intervention for young mothers and fathers, their children and extended family. Adapting this North American social work intervention, which is delivered by service user staff members, social work and health professionals, in a UK city demonstrated that young parents and their extended families could be engaged onto a programme designed to enh…
Experiences of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Students on Social Work Programmes
This article reports on a qualitative study with lesbian, gay and bisexual students and key informants from social work programmes and the wider higher education institution (HEI) that aimed to examine participants' views about this group of students' progression on and experiences of social work programmes in England. Student participants did not consider that their progression had been adversely affected by reactions to their sexual orientation…
A Qualitative Study of Marginalised Social Work Students' Views of Social Work Education and Learning
This article explores the experiences of social work students who viewed themselves to be multiply marginalised in universities in England. It draws on data from a Department of Health-funded study into Diversity and Progression that investigated the particular circumstances of black and ethnic minority, disabled, and lesbian, gay and bisexual students. In-depth interviews (forty-one) and focus groups (nine) were conducted with students and a wid…
The Successful Reunification of Abused and Neglected Looked After Children with Their Families
Based on the underlying principle that all children have the right to be cared for by their birth family wherever it is safe to do so, this practitioner research study examined what works in family reunification practices for abused and neglected looked after children. The research used a case-file audit to explore the characteristics of forty-three children successfully returned home in one metropolitan local authority, and how social work pract…
Beyond Equal Access to Equal Outcomes
This paper is based on the first national qualitative study to examine diversity and progression within social work programmes in England, focusing on the experiences of disabled, black and ethnic minority and lesbian, gay and bisexual students. Data collected from ninety-five students and twenty-three social work education providers across eight higher education institutions (HEIs) suggested an institutional effect on rates of progression, linke…
Intervision and Professional Development
‘Intervision’, a peer-led group reflection method, was introduced in a teaching partnership between a university and three local authorities to enhance the quality of social work education and support the development of a learning culture across the partnership. A review of the limited international research on Intervision shows almost entirely positive impacts but no studies in social work education. This article reports on research into impacts…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Social Work (5 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (3 works)