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Staff profile: 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 Kingston University in late 2007. Her responsibilities at Coventry University 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.  She was a member of the University Research Ethics Committee and a member of the regional Making Research Count Committee.

Vivienne has undertaken research in child protection and with children looked after, with particular focus on leaving care transitions and advocacy. She is currently completing a PhD at the University of Warwick focussing on dilemmas in advocacy services for looked after children.

Vivienne’s current responsibilities as a senior lecturer at Kingston 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; feminist theory and research; service user involvement in research.

Publications

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Number of items: 6.

Article

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, Vivienne (2007) Caring monsters? A critical exploration of contradictions and ambiguities. In: Cotterill, Pamela , Jackson, Sue and Letherby, Gayle, (eds.) Challenges and Negotiations for Women in Higher Education. Dordrecht : Springer. pp. 131-147. 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 , Clouder, Lynn , Hughes, Christina , Pritchard, Jackie and Purkis, Judy (2001) Caring monsters? A critical exploration of contradictions and ambiguities. In: Women in Higher Education Network Conference; 12 May 2001, Manchester, UK. (Unpublished)

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Grants

  • Barnes V; Whitehead  K (2000). NCH. Evaluation of Leaving Care, Children’s Rights and Independent Visitors’ Projects. £20,000: 2000–2003