• My Student Experience | Dan

    My Student Experience | Dan

    I’m Dan and I study Social Work at Edge Hill University. I decided to study Social Work because I really wanted to make an active contribution to promoting social justice and support people to make positive changes in their lives. The best thing about my course is the wide range of learning opportunities we are…

  • My Student Experience | Natasha

    My Student Experience | Natasha

    I’m Natasha and I study Social Work at Edge Hill University.  I decided to study Social Work as I wanted to play an active role in ensuring people’s voices were heard, when making choices to make a positive impact in their own life. The best part within my course is the many opportunities that are…

  • Meet the team | Claire Bates

    Claire spent 14 years as a registered social worker in a local authority, much of this with adults with learning disabilities but later in her career on a generic adult social work team. Claire has worked as both a practitioner and in a management capacity and is a qualified and experienced Practice Educator. While in…

  • Meet the team | Paul Rimmer

    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…

  • Meet the team | Emma Rimmer

    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…

  • Meet the team | Noreen Maguinness

    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…

  • Meet the team | Sue Williams

    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…

  • Meet the team | Nigel Kelleher

    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…

  • Meet the team | Ciaran Murphy

    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…

  • Meet the team | Steve Hothersall

    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…