Biography

Research

Journal Articles

• Oliver, L. and Fenge, L.A., 2025. ‘Don’t tell anyone anything’: How do family secrets influence child-to-parent violence and abuse? Qualitative Social Work.
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• Gurr, H., Oliver, L., Harvey, O., Subedi, M. and van Teijlingen, E., 2024. The Importance of Positionality for Qualitative Researchers. Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 18 (1), 48-54.
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• Harvey, O. and Oliver, L., 2024. The use of poetry in form of haikus as a tool for critical reflection. Social Work Education.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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Books

• Polkinghorne, M. et al., 2023. Fusion Learning Conference 2023 - Proceedings. Poole, Dorset, UK, BH12 5BB: Bournemouth University.
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• Lee, S. and Oliver, L., 2023. Social Work Practice with Adults Learning from Lived Experience. SAGE.
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Chapters

• Harvey, O., 2023. Working with Substance Use. In: Oliver, L. and Lee, S., eds. Social Work Practice with Adults. Learning Matters.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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Reports

• Oliver, L. and Harvey, O., 2024. Themes arising from the Violence Against Women and Girls Summit: March 2024.. BU/Soroptimists.
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• Harvey, O. and Oliver, L., 2023. Themes arising from the Violence Against Women and Girls Conference: June 2023. Bournemouth University and Soroptimists' International.
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Internet Publications

• Jones, K., Thurston, J. and Oliver, L., 2019. Interview: Kip Jones talks about Biography, Auto-biography, and Creativity. Sage Publications MethodSpace. Available from: https://www.methodspace.com/interview-kip-jones-talks-about-biography-auto-biography-and-creativity/.
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• Cooper, K., Oliver, L., Podee, M. and Thurston, J., 2018. The Personal Stories of a Methodology Study Group: An independent learning and support mechanism for postgrads. Method Space. Available from: https://www.methodspace.com/the-personal-stories-of-a-methodology-study-group/.
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Theses

• Oliver, L., 2018. Family narratives of child-to-parent violence and abuse: lifting the veil of secrecy. PhD Thesis. Bournemouth University, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences.
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Others

• Harvey, O. and Oliver, L., 2024. The seven-eyes social worker: a tool for critical self-reflection. Published.
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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

• Development of a new perpetrator behaviour change programme for domestic abuse (Safer BCP Partnership: Vision Small Project Fund, 08 May 2024). Awarded
• Pilot Study: Investigating social care and criminal justice professionals who have been/are victims/survivors of domestic abuse and their experiences of support in the County of Dorset (Bournemouth University Pump Priming, 01 Feb 2024). Awarded
• 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

• Presentation at UP2U programme day (10 Dec 2024)
• Adult Safeguarding Conference (20 Nov 2024)
• Social Work Week 2024 (20 Mar 2024)
• Violence Against Women and Girls: Summit (call for action) (06 Mar 2024)
• Violence Against Women and Girls Presentation (15 Jan 2024)
• Gaia: Lessons for the Future (05 Dec 2023)
• 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

• Dorset Adult Safeguarding, The romanticization of domestic abuse, 20 Nov 2024, Dorset
• Developing Inclusive Practice Education, 03 Jul 2024, Bournemouth University
• Cornwall Council’s Annual Children and Families Social Work Conference, Use of Haikus for Critical Reflection on Practice, 19 Mar 2024, Cornwall
• National Children and Adult Services Conference 2023, Presentation title: Challenging Culture: Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG), 29 Nov 2023, Bournemouth
• 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

Attended Training

• Phoenix Training

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,

External Media and Press

• Dorset violence against women and girls summit to be held, BBC News: Dorset, 06 Mar 2024. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-68484626
• Dorset violence against women and girls summit to be held, BBD News, 06 Mar 2024. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-68484626

Broadcast Interview

• BBC Dorset, Violence Against Women and Girls, Harris, S, 11 Mar 2024
• BBC Solent, Violence Against Women and Girls, Newman, A, 11 Mar 2024