Staff profile: Dr Nigel Elliott
Position: Principal Lecturer
School: Social Work
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8417 5494
Email: n.elliott@sgul.kingston.ac.uk
Biography
Nigel Elliott is a qualified social worker and probation officer with practitioner, manager and training officer experience. He achieved the Advanced Award in Social Work (portfolio route) in 2000 while working as a senior practitioner with South East London Probation Service. Two publications (Working with Structural and Ideological Change: An Example from Probation, 2001; Portfolio Creation, Action Research and the Learning Environment: A Study from Probation, 2003) drew substantially on the work required in producing the AASW portfolio.
Nigel has been employed since 2001 as a principal lecturer and programme director of undergraduate social work studies at Kingston University. He took a lead a role in the planning and validation of the current BA (Hons) in Social Work (commenced 2003) and oversaw the closing of the Diploma in Social Work. He teaches across all parts of the programme and is the lead for penology and criminal justice law and practice. He also supervises dissertations on the professional post-qualifying Masters programmes.
In 2006 he received a PhD by publication in social work from Kingston University. Submitted publications covered a 20 year period and tracked the changing ethical, policy and practice environment of social work and probation during this period.
Interests
Reflective practice, applied professional ethics, practitioner research and action research. These interests have been developed and articulated through the sequence of producing a Diploma in Management (NDipM), the AASW, publications and the PhD.
Publications
Article
Elliott, Nigel (2008) The global vortex: social welfare in a networked world. Journal of Social Work Practice, 22(3), pp. 269-287. ISSN (print) 0265-0533
Elliott, Nigel (2003) Portfolio creation, action research and the learning environment: a study from probation. Qualitative Social Work, 2(3), pp. 327-345. ISSN (print) 1473-3250
Elliott, Nigel (1997) The qualification of probation officers: thoughts for the future. Probation Journal, 44(4), pp. 205-210. ISSN (print) 0264-5505
Elliott, Nigel (1995) College reflections on practice theory. Social Work Education, 14(3), pp. 5-24. ISSN (print) 0261-5479
Elliott, Nigel (1988) The experience of the singleton practice teacher. Social Work Education, 8(1), pp. 27-30. ISSN (print) 0261-5479
Book
Elliott, Nigel (2001) Working with structural and ideological change: an example from probation. Norwich : School of Social Work and Psychosocial Studies, University of East Anglia. 63p. (Social Work Monographs , no. 186) ISBN 185784081X
Elliott, Nigel (1990) Practice teaching and the art of social work. Norwich : Social Work Monographs. 39p. (Social Work Monographs, no. 88) ISBN 0946751730
Conference or Workshop Item
Elliott, Nigel (2010) Promoting ethical practice: moral agency in a hostile environment. In: 2010 Joint World Conference on Social Work and Social Development; 10 - 14 Jun 2010, Hong Kong, China. (Unpublished)
Elliott, Nigel (2008) Moral agency and the service ideal. In: Improving practice by research: using evidence-based practice in the workplace; 7 Nov 2008, Kingston-upon-Thames, UK. (Olive Stevenson Seminar Series) (Unpublished)
