Member of European Social Work Research Association.Member of British Association of Social Workers.Registered Social Worker (Social Care Wales).I welcome PhD applications to work on topics related to social work. I am a registered Social Worker with Social Care Wales. I manage the international travel programme for the MA in Social Work. I teach on the MA in Social Work and convene the post qualifying Enabling Practice module. I sit on the People and Envirnment Committee. I chair the Equality and Diversity Committee for the School of Social Sciences. I am an Assistant Director of CASCADE Children's Social Care Research and Development Centre and I am responsible for ExChange, the research dissemination arm of the centre. I have published widely and a paper on adult safeguarding in Wales, published in the Journal of Adult Protection, was awarded the Emerald Literati 'Outstanding Paper' award in 2020. I particularly favour a sociological approach to child and family research.

I was asked to give evidence to All Wales Parliamentary Committee on the basis of a study I had undertaken on children visiting a mother in prison, from which I made a short film. My interests are in child and family social work and criminal justice, particularly fostering, adoption, domestic abuse, women in prison and child neglect. Having been a practitoner for many years (as a probation offiver and social worker) this has influenced both my interests and approach to research. I am a Social Work lecturer and researcher. I am a Professor in School of Social Sciences.

Rees by Allyson James