Dr Louise Oliver
- Senior Lecturer in Social Work
- Bournemouth Gateway Building BG501, St Pauls Lane, Bournemouth, BH8 8GP
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Biography
Dr Louise Oliver is a senior lecturer within the social work team. She teaches on both the qualifying and post-qualifying social work programmes. She is also, a qualified social worker who has predominantly worked in children's and families within local authorities.
Her interests are in Violence Against Women and Girls, family violence and abuse, particularly Domestic Abuse, Intimate Partner 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.
Research
16 Days of Activism: Oranging week - engaging the public in VAWG
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.
- 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.
- Harvey, O. and Oliver, L., 2024. The use of poetry in form of haikus as a tool for critical reflection. Social Work Education.
- 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
- Polkinghorne, M. et al., 2023. Fusion Learning Conference 2023 - Proceedings. Poole, Dorset, UK, BH12 5BB: Bournemouth University.
- Lee, S. and Oliver, L., 2023. Social Work Practice with Adults Learning from Lived Experience. SAGE.
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
- Oliver, L. and Harvey, O., 2024. Themes arising from the Violence Against Women and Girls Summit: March 2024.. BU/Soroptimists.
- Harvey, O. and Oliver, L., 2023. Themes arising from the Violence Against Women and Girls Conference: June 2023. Bournemouth University and Soroptimists' International.
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/.
- 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/.
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.
Others
- Harvey, O. and Oliver, L., 2024. The seven-eyes social worker: a tool for critical self-reflection. Published.
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
