Staff profile: Dr Vivienne Barnes
Position: Senior Lecturer
School: Social Work
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8417 5669
Email: k.v.barnes@sgul.kingston.ac.uk
Biography
Vivienne is a qualified social worker and practised as a generic worker before specialising in social work with children and families. She also worked as an Approved Social Worker in mental health, a practice teacher and later as a manager in local authority children’s services. Vivienne taught at Coventry University before moving to the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences in late 2007. Her responsibilities have included course leader and admissions tutor on the BA Honours Social Work programme, teaching in social work with children, research and management and inter-professional teaching.
Vivienne has undertaken research in child protection and with children looked after, with particular focus on leaving care transitions and advocacy. She has recently completed a PhD at the University of Warwick focussing on dilemmas in advocacy and social work with looked after children. She is currently involved in research in inter-professional ethics with children and young people in a London borough.
Vivienne’s current responsibilities as a senior lecturer at the Faculty include the Professional Child and Family Studies Programme and teaching in children’s social work and research on the BA and MA Social Work programmes.
Interests
Safeguarding children and children looked after; advocacy; ethics of care; inter-professional ethics; feminist theory and research; service user involvement in research.
Publications
Article
Barnes, Vivienne (2011) Social work and advocacy with young people: rights and care in practice. The British Journal of Social Work, ISSN (print) 0045-3102
Barnes, Vivienne (2007) Young people's views of children's rights and advocacy services: a case for 'caring' advocacy? Child Abuse Review, 16(3), pp. 140-152. ISSN (print) 0952-9136
Barnes, Vivienne, Clouder, Deanne Lynn, Pritchard, Jackie, Hughes, Christina and Purkis, Judy (2003) Deconstructing dissemination: dissemination as qualitative research. Qualitative Research, 3(2), pp. 147-164. ISSN (print) 1468-7941
Barnes, Vivienne and Chand, Ash (2000) Initial assessments in child protection: the reality of practice. Practice, 12(4), pp. 5-16. ISSN (print) 0950-3153
Book Section
Hughes, Christina, Clouder, Lynn, Pritchard, Jackie, Purkis, Judy and Barnes, Viv (2007) Caring monsters? A critical exploration of contradictions and ambiguities. In: Cotterill, P , Jackson, S and Letherby, G, (eds.) Challenges and Negotiations for Women in Higher Education. Dordrecht : Springer. pp. 131-150. ISBN 9781402061097
Barnes, Vivienne (2000) Assessing family strengths. In: Baldwin, Norma, (ed.) Protecting children, promoting their rights. London : Whiting & Birch Ltd. pp. 237-252. ISBN 1861770138
Conference or Workshop Item
Barnes, Vivienne (2010) Social Work and advocacy with young people: rights and care? In: Joint World Conference on Social Work and Social Development; June 10-14 2010, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. (Unpublished)
Thesis
Barnes, Kathryn Vivienne (2009) Caring for rights: social work and advocacy with looked after children and young people. (PhD thesis), University of Warwick.
Grants
- Barnes V; Whitehead K (2000). NCH. Evaluation of Leaving Care, Children’s Rights and Independent Visitors’ Projects. £20,000: 2000–2003
