Sara Ashencaen Crabtree

Professor Sara Ashencaen Crabtree

  • Emeritus Professor
  • Bournemouth Gateway Building BG501, St Pauls Lane, Bournemouth, BH8 8GP
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Biography

Professor Dr Sara Ashencaen Crabtree is Professor of Social & Cultural Diversity in the

Department of Social Sciences & Social Work at Bournemouth University. She is a founding member and the main convenor of the unique nexus the Bournemouth University Women’s Academic Network at BU from 2013 to 2022. The former deputy director of the Centre of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, her research interests reflect her extensive international experience across the social sciences, including social work. Her previous academic posts were at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Zayed University, UAE and University Malaysia Sarawak.

A prolific writer her research interests cover diversity and vulnerability, with a focus on gender, ethnicity and belief systems. Feminist scholarship has been threaded throughout her research journey, which includes studies into postcolonial psychiatry, disability and gender in the Middle East, social exclusion of minority ethnic groups in Hong Kong, SAR; environmental issues, and Indigenous communities in Malaysia, and also Costa Rica as well as gender inequalities in Higher Education...

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Research

My research work is primarily focused on diversity, vulnerability, marginalised groups and unheard voices – and I am particularly well known for my ethnographic studies in these diverse socio-religio-cultural domains.

My current research focuses variously on indigenous people in Malaysia under ecological threat; an extensive ethnographic, cross-cultural study of women and religion; a historiographic study of missionary nurses in the twentieth century; and research ethics.

Journal Articles

Books

  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2023. An Historiography of Twentieth-Century Women’s Missionary Nursing Through the Lives of Two Sisters: Doing the Lord’s work in Kenya and South India.. New York: Routledge.
  • Crabtree, S.A., 2021. Women of Faith and the Quest for Spiritual Authenticity Comparative Perspectives from Malaysia and Britain. Routledge.
  • Human Growth and Development in Children and Young People: Theoretical and practice perspectives Vol I. Bristol: Policy Press.
  • Human Growth and Development in Adults: Theoretical and practice perspectives Vol II. Bristol: Policy Press.
  • García Segura, A., Oleh Ismail, B.M., Man, Z., Sylvester, O., Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2020. Stories from the People: Narratives from the Bribri and Jakun Indigenous people of Costa Rica and Malaysia. London: Catford Press.
  • Spatschek, C., Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J., 2018. Methods & Methodologies of Social Work: Reflecting professional intervention. London: Whiting & Birch.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2018. Social Work with Disadvantaged and Marginalised Groups. London: Sage.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., Speith, N., Choe, J., Gatinao, A., Vasif, C., Nicholson, C. and Boland, B., 2018. Talk About Success: BU women academics speak. London: Women's Academic Nework, Catford Print Centre.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2018. Social Work with Disadvantaged and Marginalised People. London: Sage.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., Husain, F., Spalek, B. and Devanna, T., 2016. Islam and Social Work: Culturally sensitive practice in a diverse world. 2nd ed.. Bristol: Policy Press.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S, Parker, J., Crabtree Parker, I. and Crabtree Parker, M., 2016. Death of the Dragon God Lake: Voice from Tasik Chini. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: SIRD.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2015. Diversity and the Processes of Marginalisation and Otherness: A European Perspective. London: Whiting & Birch.
  • Diversity and the Processes of Marginalisation and Otherness: a European perspective. Lo: Whiting & Birch.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., Parker, J. and Azman, A., 2012. The Cup, The Gun and The Crescent: Social welfare and civil unrest in Muslim societies.. London: Whiting & Birch.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2012. A Rainforest Asylum: The enduring legacy of colonial psychiatric care in Malaysia. London: Whiting & Birch.
  • The Cup, The Gun & The Crescent: Social welfare and civil unrest in Muslim societies. London: Whiting & Birch.
  • The Cup, The Gun & The Crescent: Social welfare and civil unrest in Muslim societies. London: Whiting & Birch.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., Parker, J. and Azman, A., 2012. The Cup, The Gun & The Crescent: Social Welfare and Civil Unrest in Muslim societies. London: Whiting & Birch.
  • The Cup, The Gun and The Crescent: Social Welfare and Civil Unrest in Muslim societies. London: Whiting & Birch.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., Husain, F. and Spalek, B., 2011. Lavorare Con Gli Utenti Musulmani: manuale per gli operatori dei servizi sociali e sanitari (translation). Trento: Erickson.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Husain, F., 2011. Lavorare Con Gli Utenti Musulmani: manuale per gli operatori dei servizi sociali e sanitari. Trento: Erickson.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., Husain, F. and Spalek, B., 2008. Islam & Social Work: Debating values and transforming practice. Bristol: Policy Press.

Chapters

  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2023. Social work with children and human rights. In: Sæbjørnsen, S.E.N., Makuu, M. and Ødegård, A., eds. Change Agents. Norway: NOREC.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2022. Does practice learning make better practitioners? The need for research into practice learning in social work education in the UK. In: Gómez-Jiménez, M.-L., ed. El Estatuto del Prácticum Externo: Aspectos Jurídico-sociales de derecho comparado. Barcelona: Aranzadi, Thomson Reuters.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2020. Islamic principles, inclusivity and revitalisation in conceptual frameworks for European social work. In: Schmid, H. and Sheikhzadegan, A., eds. Islamic Social Work. From Community Services to Commitment to the Common Good.. Switzerland: Springer Nature.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2020. Islamic perspectives, inclusivity and revitalisation in conceptual frameworks for European social work. In: Schmid, H. and Sheikhzadegan, A., eds. Islamic Social Work. From Community Services to Commitment to the Common Good.. Switzerland: Springer Nature.
  • Parker, J., Heaslip, V., Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Johnsen, B., 2020. People in contact with criminal justice systems participating in service redesign: Vulnerable citizens or democratic partners? In: Hean, S., Johnsen, B. and Kloetzer, L., eds. People in contact with criminal justice systems participating in service redesign: Vulnerable citizens or democratic partners?. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2020. Introduction and history: Approaches to human growth and development in adults. In: Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., eds. Human Growth and Development in Children and Young People: Theoretical and practice perspectives (Volume II).. Bristol: Policy Press.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2020. Negotiating transitions: culture and coming of age in Muslim communities. In: Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., eds. Human Growth and Development in Children and Young People: Theoretical and practice perspectives (Volume I).. Bristol: Policy Press.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2020. Families and friends – relationship development in Muslim communities. In: Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., eds. Human Growth and Development in Adults: Theoretical and practice perspectives (Volume II).. Bristol: Poliicy Press.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2020. Critical perspectives on human growth and development in adults. In: Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., eds. Parker and S. Ashencaen Crabtree (eds.) Human Growth and Development in Adults: Theoretical and practice perspectives (Vol II). Bristol: Policy Press.
  • Parker, J., Ashencaen Crabtree, S., Reeks, E., Marsh, D. and Vasif, C., 2018. ‘River! that in silence windest’ The place of religion and spirituality in social work assessment: sociological reflections and practical implications. In: Spatscheck, C., Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J., eds. Methods & Methodologies of Social Work: Reflecting professional intervention. London: Whiting & Birch.
  • Spatschek, C., Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J., 2018. Methods and Methodologies in Social Work: An introduction. In: Spatschek, C., Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J., eds. Methods and Methodologies in Social Work: Reflecting professional interventions. London: Whiting and Birch Lyd.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2017. Reclaiming romance: The moral quest to excavate the hidden voice of the oppressed. In: Egay, K., Sophia, S. and Hew, C.S., eds. Beyond Romance: Reflections on Research in Sarawak. Kuching, Sarawak: UNIMAS Press.
  • Parker, J., Crabtree, S.A. and Azman, A., 2016. Treading the long path: Social work education in Malaysia. Routledge International Handbook of Social Work Education. 84-95.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2016. Social work with Muslim communities: Treading a Critical Path Over the Crescent Moon. In: Crisp, B., ed. Routledge Handbook of Religion, Spirituality and Social Work. London: Routledge.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2015. Development as eradication: The pillage of the Jakun 'people's bank' of Tasik Chini, Pahang. In: Hood, S. and Alias, A., eds. The Orang Asli Traditional Knowledge. Selangor, Malaysia: Universiti Kebangsaan Press.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2014. Introduction to and conceptual encapsulation of the Second Erasmus SocNet edited collection. Diversity and the Processes of Marginalisation and Otherness: a European perspective. London: Publisher.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2014. Islamophobia and the Manichean constructions of the ‘Other’: a contemporary European problem. Diversity and the Processes of Marginalisation and Otherness: a European perspective. London: Whiting & Birch.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J., 2014. Research within indigenous cultures: Kinship care as Ubuntu. Diversity and the Processes of Marginalisation and Otherness: a European perspective.. London: Whiting & Birch.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J., 2014. Dancing with Shadows: Towards an appreciation of the fluidity of anti-oppressive and anti-discriminatory practices. Diversity and the Processes of Marginalisation and Otherness: a European perspective. London: Whiting & Birch.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2014. Problematising active ageing: A theoretical excursus into the sociology of ageing for social work practice. In: Parker, J. and Gomez Jimenez, M.L., eds. Active Ageing? Perspectives from Europe on a vaunted topic. London: Whiting & Birch, 12-29.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J., 2014. The discourse of active ageing and Islamic constructions. In: Parker, J., ed. Active Ageing? Perspectives from Europe on a vaunted topic. London: Whiting & Birch, 190-204.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J., 2014. Religion, Islam and active ageing. In: Gomez Jimenez, M.L. and Parker, J., eds. Active Ageing: Perspectives from Europe on a much vaunted topic. London: Whiting & Birch.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2014. Problematising active ageing: A theoretical excursus into the sociology of ageing for social work practice. In: Gomez Jimenez, M.L. and Parker, J., eds. Active Ageing? Perspectives from Europe on a much vaunted topic. London: Whiting & Birch.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2014. Introduction to and encapuslation of the Second Erasmus SocNet edited collection. In: Ashencaen Crabtree, S., ed. Diversity and the Processesof Marginalisation and Otherness: A European Perspective. London: Whiting & Birch.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2014. Dancing with Shadows: Towards an appreciationof the fluidity of anti-oppressive and anti-discriminatory practices. In: Ashencaen Crabtree, S., ed. Diversity and the Processes of Marginalisation and Otherness: A European Perspective. London: Whiting & Birch.
  • HEW, C.S. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2012. The Islamic resurgence in Malaysia and the implications for multiculturalism. In: Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J., eds. The Cup, The Gun and the Crescent: Social Welfare and Civil Unrest in Muslim societies. London: Whiting & Birch, 82-100.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2011. Soziale Arbeit mit Migranten in Grossbritannien. In: Kunz, T. and Puhl, R., eds. Arbeitsfeld Interkulturalität: Grundlagen, Methoden und Praxisansätze der Sozialen Arbeit in der Zuwanderungsgesellschaft. Weinheim: Juventa Verlag.
  • Baba, I., Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J., 2011. Future indicative, past imperfect: a cross cultural comparison of social work education in Malaysia and England. In: Stanley, S., ed. Social Work Education in Countries of the East: Issues and Challenges. New York: Nova, 276-301.
  • Baba, I., Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J., 2010. Future indicative, past imperfect: a cross cultural comparison of social work education in Malaysia and England. In: Stanley, S., ed. Social Work Education in Countries of the East: Issues and Challenges. New York: Nova.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Williams, R., 2009. Inclusive Education and Children with Disabilities in the Gulf Cooperation Council Member States. In: Mazawi, A.E. and Sultana, R.G., eds. World Yearbook of Education 2010: Education and the Arab 'World' Political Projects, Struggles and Geometrics of Power. Abingdon, England: Routledge, 196-213.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2007. Madness and the Hegemony of Healing: The Legacy of Colonial Psychiatry in Sarawak. In: Hew, C.S., ed. Village Mothers, City Daughters. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2003. The gendered asylum: Malaysian women in psychiatric care. World Federation for Mental Health Biennial Congress: Proceedings. World Federation for Mental Health.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2001. A multicultural montage: Perspectives from care-giving families in Sarawak. In: Haque, A., ed. Mental Health Issues in Malaysia, Issues and Concerns. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 147-162.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Chong, G., 2001. Standing at the crossroads: mental health in Malaysia since independence. In: Haque, A., ed. Mental Health Issues in Malaysia, Issues and Concerns. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 21-32.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2000. Generic policies, gendered practices: psychiatric care in Kuching, Malaysia. Sixth Biennial Borneo Research Conference: Proceedings. Malaysia: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.
  • Spatscheck, C., Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J., 1982. Methods and methodologies of social work: An introduction. In: Spatscheck, C., Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J., eds. Methods & Methodologies of Social Work: Reflecting professional intervention. London: Whiting & Birch.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J.. Embroidered lives and tapestries of violence. The Cup, The Gun and the Crescent: Social Welfare and Civil Unrest in Muslim societies.. London: Whiting & Birch.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and wood, M.. The Social Construction of Juvenile Delinquency and Social Welfare Responses to Youth Justice in the United Arab Emirates. In: Ashencaen Crabtree, S., Parker, J. and Azman, A., eds. The Cup, The Gun and the Crescent: Social Welfare and Civil Unrest in Muslim societies. London: Whiting & Birch.

Conferences

  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2022. Social work with children: Questions of human rights. In: Children with disabilities and quality of life-challenges and possibilities 20-22 June 2022 St Carolus, Tengeru, Tanzania.
  • Parker, J., Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Dixon, J., 2021. What a waste! Reflections on student recycling behaviours. In: VII Jornadas Internacionales: RESPINES Lab de innovacíon sostenibles 9 November 2021 Malaga, Spain.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2021. Courage, Compassion, Corecion, and COVID. In: Courage and Innovations in Social and Youth Work SocNet98 19-22 April 2021 Humak, Finland.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2020. Islamic social work – a potential response to marginalisation. In: Schmid, H. and Sheikhzadegan, A., eds. Islamic Social Work?
From Community Services to Commitment to the Common Good 11-12 September 2019 Fribourg, Switzerland. Islamic Social Work. From Community Services to Commitment to the Common Good. Springer Nature.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2019. Ashencaen Crabtree, S. (2018) ‘Stripping back the layers’: Women’s constructions of faith in Malaysia and the UK. ‘Emergent Religious Pluralism(s) The Woolf Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge. April 16-17 2018. In: ‘Emergent Religious Pluralism(s)' 16 April-18 May 2018 The Woolf Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2018. Donning the Slow Professor’ at BU: A feminist action research project: reflections and conclusions. In: Womens academic network conference 23-24 May 2018 BU.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S. et al., 2018. ‘Welcome to the Machine!’ Resisting isomorphic, masculinised corporatisation of Higher Education through feminist scholarship. In: DAKAM Gender and Women's Studies Conference 10-12 November 2018 Istanbul. Yes TBA.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Shiel, C., 2018. Loaded dice: Barriers to women's academic progression. In: Back in the Women's Room: Dialogues on gender focused research 24 May 2017 Bournemouth University. No.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Hemingway, A., 2018. The WAN Network Slow Professor study at BU, a progress report. In: Back in the Women's Room: Dialogues on Gender Focused Research 24 May 2017 Bournemouth University Women's Academic Network.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2018. Women in the academy: Ambiguities, uncertainty and precarity’. In: Gender and Women’s Studies Conference 14-15 December 2018 Istanbul.
  • Parker, J., 2016. Wisdom and skills in social work education: Promoting critical relational social work through innovative learning. In: Social Work Education: Innovations and experiences - Preparing social workers of tomorrow: tradition, challenges and new paths 29-30 September 2016 Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuero, Milano.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2016. Ethnographic Research as Social Work Practice: A problematised study of socio-cultural tensions and conflicts experienced by the Orang Asli communities of Tasik Chini, Malaysia. In: JSWEC Global and UK Perspectives on Generic Social Work Education, Research and Practice 13-15 July 2016 Open University, Milton Keynes. Global and UK Perspectives on Generic Social Work Education, Research and Practice, 62-63.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J., 2016. Ethnography and social justice among the Indigenous Poeples of Malaysia. In: invited lecture 5 May 2016 Màlaga, Spain.
  • Parker, J., Ashencaen Crabtree, S., Reeks, E., Marsh, D. and Vasif, C., 2015. ‘River! that in silence windest’ The place of religion and spirituality in social work assessment: sociological reflections and practical implications. In: 17th SocNet 98 International University Week:
Methods and Methodology of Social Work – Reflecting Professional Interventions, 20-24 April 2015 Bremen, Germany. http://www.iuw-hsbremen.de/workshops-2015/1-religion-and-spirituality-in-assessment/.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2015. Chaos and coalescence i the narratives of hardship: A new pedagogy for social work (Invited keynote). In: Building Peace Through Knowledge 12 February 2015-13 February 2013 Jerusalem.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2015. What western students can learn from Asian placements: A case study and theorisation. In: Ellta 17-19 November 2015 Penang.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2015. Social work engagement - surface or deep participation: Constructing new practice paradigms of moral intervention (Invited paper). In: The 2nd International Social Work Conference 2015: Celebrating Diversity in One World. 3-5 December 2015 , Evergreen Laurel Hotel, Penang, Malaysia, 3rd December 2015 (invited plenary session).
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2015. Parker, J., Ashencaen Crabtree, S., Reeks, E., Marsh, D. and Vasif, C. (2015) ‘River! that in silence windest’[1] The place of religion and spirituality in social work assessment: sociological reflections and practical implications, 17th. In: SocNet 98 International University Week:
Methods and Methodology of Social Work – Reflecting Professional Interventions, 24th April, Bremen, Germany, http://www.iuw-hsbremen.de/workshops-2015/1-religion-and-spirituality-in-assessment/ 21-25 April 2015 Bremen Germany.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2015. Cultural diversity and citizenship in the global 'smart' city (invited paper). In: SHUR (Smart Homes & Urban Renewal) special interest conference 26-27 June 2015 Universidad de Malaga, Spain.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2014. Social Work & Human Rights. In: Malaysian Association of Social Workers/Proham 28 March 2014 Kuala Lumpur Methodist College, Malaysia.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2014. Social and Economic Crises – Social Work Solutions,. In: World Social Work Day 18th March 2014 24 March 2014 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J., 2014. Modern day ethnographies of the Orang Asli of Tasik Chini. In: Resource sharing on Tasik Chini 6 March 2014 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
  • Parker, J., Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Azman, A., 2014. What Western students can learn from Asian placements: A case study and theorisation. In: Ellta 17-19 November 2014 Penang, Malaysia.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2014. Terrorism and social work: perceptions of what social workers need to know. In: Social Work Congress 9-12 July 2014 Melbourne.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2014. Ethnographic perspectives on 'global mental helth'. In: 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences 5-10 August 2013 Manchester.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., Calvin Thomas, G. and Parker, J., 2014. The sustainability of UK post-colonial social work practice opportunities in Malaysia. In: Education for Sustainable Development, 2nd International Conference 10 February-11 September 2009 Bournemouth UK.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., Parker, J. and Azman, A., 2014. What Western students can learn from Asian placements: A case study and theorisation, Leadership and Leanring in the Asian Century. In: ELLTA 19-20 November 2014 Penang Malaysia.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J., 2013. Islamophobia and the Manichean constructions of the ‘Other’: a contemporary European problematic. In: Diversity and the processes of marginalization and otherness: giving voices to hidden themes.) SOCNET International Social Work Week 15-19 April 2013 Bournemouth University.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2013. Islamophobia and the Manichean Constructions of 'Other'. In: Erasmus SocNet International University Week 22-26 April 2013 Bournemouth UK.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2013. Religion, Islam and active ageing. In: Erasmus SocNet International University Week 23-27 April 2012 Malaga Spain.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2012. Problematising international placements as a site of intercultural learning. In: Social work research in local, national and international contexts: the challenges of comparison and generalisation 22-24 March 2012 Basel, Switzerland. , 98-99 Basel: University of Applied Sciences and Arts, NorthWest Switzerland.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J., 2012. Religion, Islam and active ageing. In: FEST Erasmus International Week 'Challenges for Seniors on Active Ageing' 23-29 April 2012 University of Malaga, Spain.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2012. Problematising active ageing: a theoretical excursus into the sociology of ageing for social work practice in Europe and South East Asia. In: FEST Erasmus International Week 'Challenges for Seniors on Active Ageing' 23-29 April 2012 University of Malaga, Spain.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2012. Problematising international placements as a site of intercultural learning. In: European Social Work Research Conference 22-24 March 2012 Basel Switzerland.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J., 2011. What's it got to do with me? Internationalisation of the social work curriculum for global citizenship. In: International Conference on Education for Sustainable Development & Global Citizenship, 4th 8-9 September 2011 Bournemouth University, Poole, England.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2011. Fish need Bicycles: The experiences of male social work students. In: Ethnicity, Gender, Class: Diversity and Social Work in 21st Century Europe, 13th International University Week 4-8 April 2011 Waterford, Ireland.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2011. Fish need Bicycles: Gender relations and male social work students. In: 9th International Practice Teaching Conference 11-13 April 2011 Bournemouth University, England.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J., 2011. West meets East: Learning and transition in social work placement education. In: Internationalisation of Pedagogy and Curriculum in Higher Education: Exploring new frontiers 16-17 June 2011 University of Warwick, Warwick, England. , 37-38 York: Higher Education Academy /UK Council for International Student Affairs.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2011. Fish Need Bicycles: The experience of male social work students. In: Erasmus SocNet International University Week 11-15 April 2011 Waterford Ireland.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Parker, J., 2010. International social work practice education in the context of post-colonial social welfare settings in Malaysia. In: 8th International Teaching Practice Conference: Sustaining practice learning in a turbulent place 12-14 April 2008 Bournemouth, England.
  • Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2010. International social work practice education in the context of post-colonial social welfare settings in Malaysia. In: 9th International Teaching Practice Conference 12-14 April 2010 Bournemouth University, England.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2009. A Muslim perspective on health. In: BAAF Adoption & Fostering 5 October 2009 London.
  • Calvin Thomas, G., Parker, J. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2009. The sustainability of UK post-colonial social work practice opportunities in Malaysia. In: Education for Sustainable Development: Graduates as Global Citizens, 2nd International Conference 10-11 September 2007 Bournemouth University, England.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2008. Dislocated encounters: reflexive musings on lived and constructed oppressions. In: 7th Qualitative Research Conference 8-10 September 2008 Bournemouth University, England.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2008. The Islamic perspective in social work practice and education: a personal and professional journey. In: 8th International Teaching Practice Conference: Sustaining practice learning in a turbulent place 12-14 April 2008 Bournemouth, England.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2008. The Islamic perspective in social work practice education: A personal and professional journey. In: 8th International Teaching Practice Conference 18-20 June 2008 York St Johns, UK.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., Abdul Karim, M. and Al Siade, R., 2004. Care-giving familes of children with learning disabilities in Sharjah, UAE. In: Dubai International Rehabilitation Conference 24-27 January 2004 Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Research Symposium Proceedings.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2004. The citizenship agenda: the role of social work and people with learning disabilities in the UAE. In: Dubai International Rehabilitation Conference 24-27 January 2004 Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dubai, UAE: Research Symposium Proceedings.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., Karim, A. and Al Siade, R., 2004. Care-giving families of children with learning disabilities in Sharjah, UAE. In: Dubai Rehabilitation Conference 24-27 January 2004 Dubai UAE.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2003. The gendered society: Malaysian women in psychiatric care. In: World Federation for Mental Health Biennial Congess 21-26 February 2003 Melbourne.
  • Wong, C.M., Ashencaen Crabtree, S., Noh, K.M., Matusop, A. and Masud, F., 2000. Community participation through participatory action research in a dengue prevention programme in rural Malaysia. In: 128th Annual Meetiing of APHA (American Public Health Associaton) 12-16 November 2000 Boston, MA, USA. Boston, MA, USA: American Public Health Associaton.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2000. Generic policies, gendered practices: Psychiatric care in Kuching. In: Sixth Biennial Borneo Research Conference 2000 2000 Kuching, East Malaysia.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 2000. Perceptions of mental health outreach services in Sarawak. In: 3rd Malaysian Mental Health Conference 2000 Kuching, East Malaysia.
  • Ashencaen Crabtree, S. and Chong, G., 1997. Carers’ Perceptions of CPN Services in Sarawak, Malaysia. In: World Congress of the World Federation for Mental Health: Cornerstones for Mental Health 6-11 July 1997 Lahti and Helsinki, Finland. Book of Abstracts. World Congress of Mental Health.
  • Chong, G. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 1997. Citizenship and people with mental illness in Malaysia. In: First International Conference on Malaysian Studies 11-13 August 1997 Kuala Lumpur. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences.CD Rom.
  • Chong, G. and Ashencaen Crabtree, S., 1997. Citizenship and people with mental illness in Malaysia. In: First International Conference on Malaysian Studies 11-13 August 1997 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Reports

Internet Publications

PhD Students

  • Holly Crossen-White, 2012. Drug-related activity in the United Kingdom between 1900-1922: What evdicence can be found through systematic seearches of The Times digital onlien archives?
  • Melsia Tomlin-Kraftner, 2017. PhD ‘I Look Like My Gran But Really, Who Am I?’ The dynamics of an expanding Mixed Heritage Society, Family History and the African Caribbean Diaspora
  • William Dugdale. Reducing reoffending through iproved collaborative practice between Health Services, Specialised Mental Health Services and prison Services in Norway

Profile of Teaching PG

  • Values & Ethics. MA SW@BU
  • Integrated Social Work Practice (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • Social Work Research 1(Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • Human behaviour and the social environment(Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Profile of Teaching UG

  • Introduction to Social Research
  • History of Social Welfare (Soc+ @ BU)
  • Health & Society (Soc+ @ BU)
  • Seekers, Believers & Iconoclasts: Sociology of Thought (Soc+ @ BU)
  • Ethnographic of Crime & Policing
  • Ethnographies of Crime & Policing
  • Health & Society
  • Safeguarding vulnerable adults in social services
  • Practice with vulnerable adults
  • Welfare in historical perspectives
  • Growing Up, Growing Old

Invited Lectures

  • Welcoming and reflecting on the universal vulva, Colchester, Essex UK, 01 Sep 2017 more
  • Open lecture, University of Malaga, 01 Jan 2016 more

Grants

  • ‘Doing the Lord’s work’: women medical missionaries in post-Imperial Africa and India. (Women's Academic Network, 02 Oct 2023). Awarded
  • Green shoots shared: Welfare and education for sustainable development (Global Challenge Research Fund, BU, 01 Jun 2018). Awarded
  • Women and faith: archival research and gendered scholarship (Women's Academic Network, 01 Jun 2018). Awarded
  • Being Developed? Comparing the experiences of economic and social development among indigenous groups in Malaysia and Costa Rica (Global Challenge Research Fund, BU, 02 May 2018). Awarded
  • Hideaway: Project evaluation (Bournemouth Borough Council, 01 May 2018). Awarded
  • Towards a competency/capability assessment tool for social work field training: A Malaysian perspective’ (British Academy, 01 Mar 2018). Awarded
  • Hideaway Project Evaluation (Bournemouth Borough Council, 01 Jan 2017). Awarded
  • Improving collaborative practice between correctional services and mental health (Horizon 2020 RISE, 01 Jan 2017). Awarded
  • Keep the Faith! The impact of political and religious beliefs on social work students (International Association of Schools of Social Work, 10 Oct 2016). Awarded
  • Donning the Slow Professor: A feminist action research project (Women's Academic Network, 01 Jul 2016). Awarded
  • Keep the faith! The impact of political and religous beliefs on social work students (International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), 01 May 2016). Awarded
  • ‘Loaded dice?’: Barriers to women’s progression (FSS Seedcorn, 01 Apr 2015). Awarded
  • An investigation of perceived anxiety and stress in the student body (BU seedcorn, 01 Jan 2015). Awarded
  • BU and Colombian Partnership Development (Fusion Investment Fund, BU, 01 Aug 2014). Awarded
  • Ethnographic work with the Orang Asli at Tasik Chini (Tasik Chini Research Centre, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, 01 Jan 2014). Awarded
  • Enable: Establishing Sustainable Research Networks and Building Learning Environments (Fusion Investment Fund, 01 Jan 2014). Awarded
  • Ethnography of the Orang Asli communities of Tasik Chini, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (Ministry of Education & Ministry of Environment, Malaysia, 01 Jan 2014). Awarded
  • 10 Inspiring Women, Women’s Academic Network (Fusion Investment Fund, BU, 01 Aug 2013). Awarded
  • STEEP: Student talent, employability and engagement programme (Fusion I Fund, BU, 01 Jan 2013). Awarded
  • Male students in social work education (Higher Education Academy (HEA), 01 Nov 2012). Awarded
  • Ignite: Evaluation of a social project (British Churches Housing Association (BCHA), 01 Aug 2012). Awarded
  • Bournemouth Churches Housing Association Ignite: an evaluation of a social employability programme (Bournemouth Churches Housing Association, 01 Jan 2012). Awarded
  • The Nearness of Distant Conflict (BU, 01 Jan 2012). Awarded
  • STEEP: Student Talent, Employability & Engagement Programme (BU, 01 Jan 2012). Awarded
  • Male students in social work education (HEA, 01 Jan 2012). Awarded
  • WAVE: Working with adults who are vulnerable – a comparison of curricula, policies and constructions (International Association of Schools of Social Work, 01 Sep 2010). Awarded
  • British Council student exchange research (British Council, 05 May 2009). Awarded
  • Mobility funding for development of international links in Malaysia (BU Centre for Global Perspectives, 01 Jan 2009). Awarded
  • Teaching social work in health and mental health: An East-West Appraisal (IASSW, 01 Jan 2006). Awarded
  • Teaching social work in health and mental health: An East-West appraisal (International Association of Schools of Social Work, 01 Jan 2006). Awarded
  • A Strengths-Based Ethnographic Study of Low-Income Pakistani Families in Hong Kong (Chinese University of Hong Kong, 01 Jan 2005). Awarded
  • An interdisciplinary ecological study of the family structure and culture in the United Arab Emirates (Zayed University, 01 Jan 2005). Awarded
  • Care-giving families of children with learning disabilities in Sharjah, UAE (Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services & Zayed University, 01 Jan 2003). Awarded
  • Dengue prevention in Sarawak (IRPA, 01 Jan 1998). Awarded
  • Dengue Prevention in Sarawak Malaysia (IRPA & WHO, 01 Jan 1998). Awarded
  • Social Integration & Mental Health in Sarawak, Malaysia (UNIMAS, 01 Jan 1997). Awarded
  • Paradigms of Healing in the Context of Contemporary & Traditional Healing Practice in Kuching, Sarawak, (UNIMAS, 01 Jan 1989). Awarded

External Responsibilities

Internal Responsibilities

  • co-convenor, Women's Academic Network
  • Co-convenor, BU Women's Academic Network
  • Programme Leader BA Sociology, BU
  • Programme Leader BA Sociology & Social Policy, BU
  • Programme Leader BA Sociology & Social Policy, BU
  • Grade 9 Internationalisation of the undergraduate curriculum, BU
  • Deputy Director Centre for Social Work, Sociology & Social Policy, BU
  • Chair of International Strategy Group, HSC, BU
  • Head of Sociology, BU

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

  • Back in the Women's Room: Dialogues on gender focused research (24 May 2017)
  • ESRC Festival of Social Sciences and Women's Academic Network (09 Nov 2016)

Consultancy Activities

  • Normah Hospital Sarawak Malaysia, Clinical social work r. Normah Hospital, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 01 Jan 2000
  • Consultancy in community counselling, Establishing a community-based counselling service and training of staff. Kuching Buddhist Society, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 01 Jan 2000

Qualifications

  • Principal Fellow in pedegogy (HIgher Education Academy, 2018)
  • Fellow in Teaching qualification (Higher Education Academy, 2009)
  • PGCE in Research Supervision (Bournemouth University, 2009)
  • PhD in Sociology (University of Hertfordshire, 2003)
  • Diploma in Social Work in Social Work (Middlesex University, 1995)
  • MA in Social Work (Middlesex University, 1995)
  • Combined Certificate in Counselling Theory and skills (Central School of Counselling & Therapy 1992, 1993)
  • BA (Hons) in Major Philosophy & Literature (University of Hertfordshire, 1990)

Honours

  • Professor Emeritus, Social Work (University of Stavanger, 2023)
  • VC Award 'Enriching Society' (Bournemouth University, 2023)

Memberships

  • APEX University - Universiti Sains Malaysia, Visiting Professor (2014-),
  • Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCAS), Member (2014-),
  • National University - Universiti Kegansaan Malaysia, Visiting Professor (2014-),
  • Royal Anthropological & Ethnological Sciences, Fellow (2014-),
  • Tasik Chini Research Centre. National University - Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Visiting Professor and Lifetime Member (2014-),
  • Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Visiting Professor (2014-),
  • British Sociological Association, Member (2012-),
  • Royal Society of Arts, Fellow (2012-),
  • Higher Education Academy, Fellow (2011-),
  • Joint University Council - Social Work Education. International subcommittee, Member (2009-),
  • International Federation of Social Workers, Member,
  • Sarawak Mental Health Association, Member,
  • UNISON, Hong Kong, Member,
  • Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Visiting Professor (-2014),
  • Universiti Sains Malaysia, Visiting Professor (-2014),
  • World Federation for Mental Health, Member,

Networks

  • Women's Academic Network
  • Joint University Council - Social Work Education Internationalisation subcommittee