Sensory Awareness and Social Work

About Andrew WhittakerMichelle Evans

Michelle Evans has 14 years of practice in all areas of sensory need including Deaf/deafness visual impairment and Deafblindness. She has a first class honours degree in social work and has worked as a care manager in adult services and a social worker in childrens services. She has a particular interest in methods of social research which contribute to raising sensory awareness in social work/care management. She lectures social work students at London South Bank University and develops and delivers sensory awareness training to practitioners and managers. Andrew Whittaker PhD is Professor of Social Work Research at London South Bank University England where he is head of the Risk Resilience and Expert Decision Making (RRED) research group. His research on risk and decision making has ranged from ethnographic to randomised controlled trial research designs. Andrew recently completed a review of professional decision making for a child death inquiry in Queensland Australia. He is the Convenor of the Decisions Assessment and Risk Special Interest Group (DARSIG) of the European Social Work Research Association. DARSIG is the main European network for researchers in the field of assessment risk and decision making in social work with more than 80 members in over 20 countries. Andrew is Editor of the Journal of Social Work Practice.