Staff profile: Nigel Hall
Position: Senior Lecturer
School: Social Work
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8417 5669
Email: n.hall@sgul.kingston.ac.uk
Biography
Nigel is a senior lecturer in the School of Social Work and course leader for the post-qualifying masters programme in professional adult care studies at specialist, higher specialist and advanced levels. He also teaches on the Master of Social Work programme covering modules concerned with contemporary social policy issues and working with vulnerable adults. He has practical experience of social work in the UK, Zimbabwe and several other African countries.
In the UK, Nigel has worked in the fields of child care, mental health and more recently adult social care. As a senior social worker he helped to develop and run adult help desks and community care teams in West Sussex, while also teaching on the health and social care course at the Open University.
In Zimbabwe, Nigel worked for 15 years as senior lecturer and director of fieldwork programmes at the School of Social Work, an associate college of the University of Zimbabwe and the only social work training institute in the country. He also held executive positions in the professional social work association in Zimbabwe helped to build the association and develop its role in the country. He later worked as senior programme officer/director of publications with the Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) – a regional organisation serving the information needs of eight southern African countries.
Nigel has been a member and life friend of the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) over many years and with others started up the Commonwealth Organisation for Social Work (COSW). He has authored and edited a variety of publications in the area of HIV/AIDS, development, poverty alleviation and social work. He was presently the IFSW representative to the Editorial Policy Committee of International Social Work.
Interests
Adult social care, including personalisation. International and comparative social work practice. Leadership and management of social work services, team process and interprofessional delivery of social services.
Publications
Article
Hall, Nigel (2011) Book Review of: Social Work in Extremis: Lessons for Social Work Internationally. The British Journal of Social Work, 41(6), pp. 1218-1220. ISSN (print) 0045-3102
Hall, Nigel (2010) News and views ... from IFSW. International Social Work, 53(3), pp. 426-430. ISSN (print) 0020-8728
Hall, Nigel (2009) NEWS AND VIEWS ... from IFSW. International Social Work, 52(6), pp. 848-851. ISSN (print) 0020-8728
Tan, Ngoh Tiong, Rowlands, Alison and Hall, Nigel (2007) Engaging in disaster relief. International Social Work, 50(3), pp. 437-440. ISSN (print) 0020-8728
Hall, Nigel (2007) We care don't we? Social workers, the profession and HIV/AIDS. Social Work in Health Care, 44(1/2), pp. 55-72. ISSN (print) 0098-1389
Hall, Nigel (2002) Globalisation and third world poverty. Social Work Review (New Zealand), 14(4), pp. 3-7. ISSN (print) 0113-7662
Hall, N P (1987) Self-reliance in practice: a study of burial societies in Harare, Zimbabwe. Journal of Social Development in Africa, 2, pp. 49-71. ISSN (print) 1012-1080
Book
Hall, Nigel (2006) 50 years of international social work: the International Federation of Social Workers celebrates its golden jubilee! Berne, Switzerland : International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW). 32p.
Hall, Nigel, ed. (2006) Social work: making a world of difference: social work around the world IV in the year of IFSW's 50th jubilee. Berne, Switzerland : International federation of social workers and Fafo. 277p. ISBN 8274225376
Hall , Nigel and Samuriwo, Petronilla (2002) Children affected by HIV/AIDS: dissemination workshop report. London, U.K. : Save The Children. 44p.
Book Section
Hall, N. (2012) The International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW). In: Healy, Lynne.M. and Link, Rosemary J., (eds.) Handbook on International Social Work: Human Rights, Development & the Global Profession. New York : Oxford University Press. pp. 172-179. ISBN 9780195333619 (In Press)
Hall, Nigel (2008) International Federation of Social Workers. In: Mizrahi, Terry and Davis, Larry E., (eds.) Encyclopedia of social work. 20th ed. Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195306619
Healy, Lynne M. and Hall, Nigel (2007) International organisations of social workers. In: Wagner, L. and Lutz, R., (eds.) International Perspectives in Social Work. London : IKO. pp. 223-242. ISBN 9783531164236
Hall, Nigel (2006) Editorial. In: Hall, Nigel, (ed.) Social work: making a world of difference: social work around the world IV in the year of IFSW's 50th jubilee. Berne, Switzerland : International federation of social workers and Fafo. pp. 14-19. ISBN 8274225376
Hall, Nigel (2002) Practice learning in hospital-based settings. In: Shardlow, Steven, M. and Doel, Mark, (eds.) Learning to practise social work: international approaches. London, U.K : Jessica Kingsley. pp. 167-178. ISBN 9781853027635
Monograph
Hall, Nigel and Mauch, Werner (2002) Gender & HIV/AIDS: a report of the international workshop on the development of empowering educational HIV/AIDS prevention strategies and gender sensitive materials. (Project Report) Hamburg, Germany : UNESCO Institute for Education. 37 p.
Grants
- Establishing a training programme over a six-year period for executive members of the national, provincial and district of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW-Z), together with the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), Danish Association of Social Workers (DS) and the Danish Trade Union Council for International Development Cooperation (LO-FTF), US$100,000, 1996-2002.
Consultancies
- Development of a web-based information service for the International Federation of Social Workers, providing topical and relevant information for social workers globally, Bern, Switzerland, 2007-8
- Commonwealth Organisation for Social Work (COSW) Board Member and previously Africa representative – preparation of reports on HIV/AIDS within Southern Africa for international Commonwealth fora, 1998-2007
- Preparation work towards the organisation of an international symposium held in Nairobi, Kenya, 8-10th May 2006 for practitioners and policy specialists on addressing the needs of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC)
- Consultancies and publications as principal author/co-author: UNESCO (Gender and HIV/AIDS); Oxfam (Multisectoral Approaches to HIV/AIDS); SAfAIDS (Grandparents and Orphans in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe), September 2002 – January 2003
