Alyson Blamey
Lecturer 鈥� Social Work
School of Health and Wellbeing
Department of Community, Social Justice and Health
email: a.blamey@worc.ac.uk
Alyson has been a qualified social worker for over 20 years and spent most of her ‘frontline’ career with adults in both the statutory and private/voluntary sector. Whilst in practice she enjoyed working with students on placement which led her to becoming a Practice Educator. This further prompted her to make her way into social work education and she has been with the 国产视频 for nearly 10 years. Alyson loves what she does but when she is not at work, she watches a lot of Korean drama (K-drama), listen to K-pop (she places the responsibility for that at her daughter!) and she is generally quite creative. Alyson also has 4 mad but gorgeous cats. She looks forward to welcoming you to your studies.
Qualifications:
- Diploma in Social Work (DipSW)
- PG Cert – LTHE
- DoLS Best Interest Assessor
- Practice Educator
- MA Philosophy
Teaching Interests
Alyson currently teaches the modules: Foundations of Law and Policy in Social Work Practice and Professional Development 1: Developing Resilience and Self-Care for Practice in Year 1 of the BA Social Work programme and the Social Work Apprenticeship programme.
Research Interests
Alyson has a clear philosophical focus to her teaching and her research interests centre around Michel Foucault’s ideas of power; how technologies of power are suffused through society and the impact this has for us as human beings but importantly for social work practice.
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Registered Social Worker – Social Work England
- FHEA