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
Authored books:
- Hall N (2006). 50 Years of International Social Work. The International Federation of Social Workers celebrates its Golden Jubilee. Berne, Switzerland: IFSW
- Hall N; Samuriwo P (2002). Children Affected by HIV/AIDS. Arcadia, South Africa: Save the Children
- Hall N (2001). Social Work Training and Deployment in Selected Eastern and Southern African Countries with Regard to HIV/AIDS. Johannesburg, South Africa: UNAIDS, IFSW & SAfAIDS
Edited books:
- Hall N (2006). Social Work: Making a World of Difference. Social Work Around the World IV. Oslo: International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) & Fafo, Norway
- Hall N (2005). Professional Social Work and its Contributions to Africa’s Development. Report of the 6th Pan-African Social Work Conference. Held at Kenyatta International Conference Centre, 10-14 April. Nairobi: Kenya Association of Social Workers
- Hall N (2004). Grandmothers and Orphan Care in Zimbabwe by Dr N Matshalaga. Harare, Zimbabwe: SAfAIDS
- Hall N; Mauch W (2002). Gender & HIV/AIDS, A Report of the International Workshop on the Development of Empowering Educational HIV/AIDS Prevention Strategies and Gender Sensitive Materials, Nairobi, Kenya, 9-13 July, 2001. Nairobi: UNESCO Institute for Education and SAfAIDS
- Hall N (2001). Men and HIV in Zimbabwe. Harare, Zimbabwe: SAfAIDS/PANOS/UNAIDS
Chapters in edited books:
- Hall N (2008). International Federation of Social Workers. Entry. In: Mizrahi T; Davis L (eds in chief). Encyclopedia of Social Work. 20th ed, New York: Oxford University Press
- Healy L; Hall N (2007). International Organisations of Social Workers. In: Wagner L; Lutz R (eds). International Perspectives in Social Work. Frankfurt: IKO, pp 223-242
- Hall N (2007). We Care Don’t We? Social Workers, the Profession and HIV/AIDS. In: Dumont S; St-Onge M (eds). Social Work and International Development. Compassion in Social Policy and Practice. Binghampton, NY: Haworth Press. Vol 44, No 1/2, pp 55-72
- Hall N; Senzere R (2002). Practice Learning in Hospital-Based Settings. In: Shardlow SM; Doel M (eds). Learning to Practice Social Work: International Approaches. London & Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publications, pp 167-179
Journal articles:
- Hall N (2007). We Care Don’t We? Social Workers, the Profession and HIV/AIDS. Social Work and Health Care 44(1-2): 55-72
- Hall N (2002). Globalisation and Third World Poverty: Keynote Paper. Social Work Review. Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers. Summer. XIV(4): 3-7.
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
