Louise Oliver

Dr Louise Oliver

  • Senior Lecturer in Social Work
  • Bournemouth Gateway Building BG501, St Pauls Lane, Bournemouth, BH8 8GP
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Biography

I am a lecturer with the social work team. I teach on both the qualifying and post-qualifying programmes. I am also, a qualified social worker who has predominantly worked in children's and families within local authorities. My interests are in family violence and abuse, particularly domestic violence, child-to-parent violence and abuse, familial problematic communication, with a focus upon secrets and secrecy. As well social work practice education, with a focus upon innovative pedagogical teaching tools and also critical reflection.

Journal Articles

  • Oliver, L., Stephens, C. and Shakespeare, S., 2022. Shhhh! Can You Keep a Secret?»: Reflecting upon the experience of working with «secret keepers» in social work. Relational Social Work, 6 (2), 71-84.
  • Oliver, L., 2021. Child-to-Parent Violence and Abuse: why families need to open up when the nation locks down. The Sociological Observer, Remaking Social Futures through Biographic, Narrative and Lifecourse Approaches: Story-Making and Story-Telling in Pandemic Times (3), 61-67.
  • Oliver, L. and Fenge, L.A., 2020. Child-to-Parent Violence and Abuse: Navigating the Ethical Line When Involving Children in Biographic Research. Ethics and Social Welfare, 14 (4), 443-450.

Books

Chapters

  • Harvey, O., 2023. Working with Substance Use. In: Oliver, L. and Lee, S., eds. Social Work Practice with Adults. Learning Matters.
  • Lyne, M., 2023. Working with the Mental Capacity Act 2005. In: Lee, S. and Oliver, L., eds. Social work practice with adults: learning from lived experience. London: Learning Matters, 62-72.
  • Oliver, L. and Lee, S., 2020. Working With Disabled Children and Young People. In: Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., eds. Human Growth and Development in Children and Young People Theoretical and Practice Perspectives. Policy Press.

Reports

  • Harvey, O., Oliver, L. and Harvey, O., 2023. Themes arising from the Violence Against Women and Girls Conference: June 2023. Bournemouth University and Soroptimists' International.

Internet Publications

Theses

PhD Students

  • Adele McMahon. Experience of Adolescent Parents in the Child Protection System

Profile of Teaching PG

  • Previous Unit: Working with Risk and Complexity in Social Work
  • Previous Units: Law, Social Policy, Values and Ethics in Social Work
  • Social Work Practice Education: Enabling Work Based Learning
  • Social Work in Practice Education: Supervising a Learner in Practice
  • Parenting Capacity (Social Work Children and Families)
  • The Childs Journey (Social Work Children and Families)

Profile of Teaching UG

  • Working with Risk and Complexity in Social Work
  • Previous Unit: Critical Literature Review
  • Previous Unit: Working with Children and Families
  • Research for Professional Practice (unit tutor)

Grants

  • Using Game-based learning and Gamification to develop reflective practice in social work students and practitioners (BU ACORN Funding, 31 May 2021). Awarded

Internal Responsibilities

  • Programme Lead for PG Dip and MA in social work (children and families), Social Work
  • Year Lead for PG Dip and MA Social Work (children and families), Social Work Masters

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

  • Child and Adolescent to parent violence and abuse: focusing on wellbeing (23 Nov 2023)
  • Violence Against Women and Girls: Social Justice in Action (29 Jun 2023)
  • Poetry (Haiku) and Critical Reflection (21 Mar 2023)

Conference Presentations

  • The Joint Social Work Education and Research Conference, Using poetry (Haikus) to enhance critical reflection, 15 Jun 2023, Glasgow UK
  • British Sociological Societies Auto/biography Christmas conference., “it’s not research, it’s just stories: An exploration into the triumphs and challenges of biographic research’. [film], 14 Dec 2018, London
  • BSA A/B Group: Past and Present Lives, ‘Auto/biography: A short film: “It’s not research, it’s just stories”: an exploration into the challenges and triumphs of biographic research’, 07 Dec 2018, Friends House, London, UK
  • BSA Auto-Biographical Study Group Summer Conference, Using the familiar to understand the unfamiliar., 19 Jul 2018, Oxford University

Qualifications

  • PhD in Child-to-parent violence and abuse (Bournemouth University, 2018)
  • PG Diploma in Social Work (Step Up To Social Work (BU), 2017)
  • MA in Practice Development (Bournemouth University, 2010)

Honours

  • Associate Supervisor Award (UK Council for Graduate Education, 2023)

Memberships

  • HEA, Senior Fellow,