Paul currently leads a number of modules across the BA Social Work programme and has a special interest in Mental Health Social Work. Paul is the Programme Leader for the social work element of the Integrated Masters in Nursing and Social Work. He also has lead responsibility for involving service users and carers in social…

Emma Rimmer is Practice Education Lecturer for Social Work at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk.  She is a qualified and registered social worker and prior to joining Edge Hill practiced for 17 years in a statutory social work team working with older people, adults with physical disabilities, learning disabilities and in the mental health field. Emma…

Noreen Maguinness is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk. She is a qualified and registered social worker with 20 years’ experience in children and family social work, including long term, assessment, family centre work and adoption and fostering. Since leaving frontline practice Noreen has worked as a Multi-agency child protection…

Sue Williams has been a qualified and registered social worker for some twenty years, having worked within children’s services locally.  Sue has been engaged within teaching and learning on successful social work programmes for thirteen years, however she has retained links to practice on an independent basis, primarily within fostering and adoption services. Since taking…

Nigel Kelleher is qualified in social work and teaching, Nigel joined the Edge Hill University Social Work Department in September 2014 after seven years’ experience of leading and teaching on a successful BA Hons Social Work programme. Nigel is teaching across our portfolio of social work education programmes and is developing and extending the University’s continuing professional…

Ciaran Murphy is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk. He is a qualified and registered social worker, having specialised in child care/protection. Ciaran practised for ten years in the areas of child protection, substance misuse and education welfare. He formerly sat on the Greater Manchester Family Justice Board sub-group for improving…

Dr Steve J Hothersall is the Head of Social Work Education at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk. He is a qualified and registered social worker, having specialised in child care/protection and statutory mental health work, having trained as a mental health officer (AMHP), and he is also a qualified nurse. Steve has practised and taught in…

Sue Holt is the MA Social Work Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk. She is a member of BASW, and  a qualified and registered social worker and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Sue specialised in statutory child care/protection/fostering and adoption work and continues to undertake assessments within the fostering arena. She has practised…