Social Work and Community Studies staff

Rebecca Govan

Assistant Lecturer

Rebecca has worked with people all of her adult life either as a volunteer, support worker or social worker. Rebecca鈥檚 focus has been social work with adults and particularly older people with experience in mental capacity, safeguarding and joint working with health colleagues. More recently having become an adopter and...

Michael Greenhouse

Lecturer in Social Work

Michael Greenhouse is Lecturer in Social Work. Prior to working in education, he has worked as a supervising social worker, fostering assessment social worker, and in child protection teams. He has expertise in direct work with children, relationship based practice and social work skills, and holds academic qualifications in...

Simon Hall

Senior Lecturer

Simon qualified as a social worker in 1995 and has worked as a practitioner and manager in most adult service user groups. He has also managed post qualifying social work training provision within a local authority for a number of years. Simon has particular interests in advocating for service users and especially in working...

Gero Kaur

Senior Lecturer

Gero qualified as a Social Worker in 2000. Upon qualifying as a Social Worker Gero worked within a Local Authority generic adult team. She started supervising social work students on placement when she became a Senior Practitioner in 2002.聽 In 2005 Gero gained employment as a Practice Educator within a Local Authority...

Caroline Lee

Associate Professor and Subject Lead for Social Work

Caroline worked as a social work practitioner in a community setting for a number of years with a range of adult service user groups, primarily within the fields of learning disabilities and mental health. Caroline joined BCU as a full-time social work lecturer in Sept 2006, and teaches across a variety of modules as well as...

Fungisai Mushawa

Senior Lecturer

Fungisai qualified as a social worker in 1990 and has worked as a social worker in generic, rehabilitation, hospice and local authority settings. Fungisai has worked as a Child Protection Social Worker, Fostering Social Worker, Independent Social Worker and as a Team Manager in these settings. She has also worked as an...

Inderjit Patel

Senior Lecturer/Programme Director

Inderjit has delivered teaching and learning across a range of modules on professional social work programmes including Social Work Theory and Method, Law, Values and Ethics, Sociology, Child Protection, Mental Health and Inter professional practice during the last 10 years as a Senior Lecturer in Social Work. She has also...

Dr Peter Simcock

Associate Professor of Social Work

Peter is Associate Professor of Social Work and Centre Lead for the Deafblind UK Centre for Education and Research. This Centre, which is the first of its kind in the UK, connects researchers, practitioners, and people living with deafblindness to increase knowledge and raise awareness. It also equips junior researchers and the...

Khadija Tai

Lecturer, Placement Coordinator and First Placement Module Lead

Khadija qualified in 2006 and first practised as a children and families social worker in 探花直播 before moving on to management in 2012. In 2020, she delivered strategic services in Sandwell as a service manager within safeguarding and court work, before joining 探花直播 social work department in May 2023...

Chloë Upright

Lecturer in Social Work

Chlo毛 qualified as a Social Worker in 2003 at the University Wales Institute, Cardiff, and in 2017 Chlo毛 gained an MSc in Social Science Research Methods at Cardiff University. Chlo毛鈥檚 research area for the MSc was Mindfulness Approaches to Learning Disability Support. Upon qualifying as a Social Worker, Chlo毛 worked as a...