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Professor Denise Turner is a qualified and Registered Social Worker, and Psychotherapist. Prior to becoming an academic she worked in a range of voluntary and statutory practice settings, including children and families and with homeless people and sex offenders. Denise's most recent practice experience is in a Hospice. Denise is an experienced academic and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She maintains practice through working as a psychotherapist with people experiencing a range of mental health and trauma related difficulties.
Research interests
Denise gained her PhD in 2014 for research exploring parents experience of the professional response to child death and has subsequently published a sole authored book drawn from this work ( Palgrave, 2017).
Denise is an experienced and innovative academic, and practising psychotherapist, with a national reputation for her work on aspects of death, loss and professional wellbeing, as well as digital practices. As part of her work on wellbeing Denise has developed a 'breathing space' model, for working with practitioners and she is also a qualified Schwartz Round facilitator. Denise's current work on practitioner wellbeing also focusses on practitioner's encounters with dogs and other animals in practice. Denise is well published in all areas of her research, including two edited books, , Social Work and Covid 19: Lessons for Education and Practice ( Critical Publishing, 2021) and Digital Connection in Health and Social Work: Perspectives from Covid 19 ( Critical Publishing, 2022). Denise's work has been featured on BBC Radio 4 and in The Guardian and she was also invited Chair of the Advisory Group for the Digital Capabilities for Social Work project commissioned by Health Education England and delivered by SCIE and BASW. She is a member of the European Social Work Research Association, the Association of Professors of Social Work , Associate Editor of the International Journal of Qualitative Methods and an External Examiner and Advisor for the Tavistock.
Education/Academic qualification
Social Work , PhD , Telling the Story: What can be learned from parents' experiences of the professional response following the sudden, unexpected death of a child? , The University of Sussex
Award Date: 13 Jan 2014
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