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(PhD, MA, BSW, AFHEA)

Lecturer

Contact details

Office: Room 6C09, Richardson Building
Email katheryn.pascoe@otago.ac.nz

Background

Dr Katheryn Margaret Pascoe is a Lecturer in the University of Otago's Social and Community Work Programme. After qualifying and practicing as a social worker here in Aotearoa, Katheryn Margaret later moved to the UK to complete a MA International Development at IDS, Sussex University, and completed her PhD in social work and social policy at Ulster University in Northern Ireland.

Research

I have a capacity and interest in taking on PhD or MA students with an interest in the following areas:

  • Bureaucracy and managerialism in social services
  • Social work in disaster response and emergency relief
  • Work force development and wellbeing
  • Community development in social work practice
  • Social policy with a focus on gender analysis

ResearchGate profile – Katheryn Margaret Pascoe

Projects

  • Northern Ireland Department of Health Reflections Project
    Mainstreaming community development in social work practice.
  • PhD EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie and DTA Co-Fund Fellow
    Social workers' perspectives on relationship-based practice: A mixed methods study of frontline practice in Northern Ireland.

Publications

Pascoe, K. M. (2024). Subverting, challenging and working within bureaucratic and managerialist systems: Strategies for upholding relationship-based social work practice. Journal of Social Work Practice, 2411044. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/02650533.2024.2411044 Journal - Research Article

McGinn, T., Pascoe, K. M., & Burns, P. (2024). Teaching social work students about evidence-based practice using peer-led learning and assessed conversations. Social Work Education. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/02615479.2024.2409182 Journal - Research Article

Pascoe, K. M. (2024). The impact of bureaucracy and managerialism on relationship-based practise: A mixed methods study of frontline social work in Northern Ireland. Social Policy & Administration. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/spol.13068 Journal - Research Article

Pascoe, K. M. (2023). Subverting, challenging and working within bureaucratic and managerialist systems: An examination of power to explore strategies employed in social work practice. Proceedings of the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (SAANZ) Conference: Global Challenges, Local Responses. Retrieved from https://www.saanz.net/saanz2023 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Pascoe, K. M. (2023). Using life-history maps to support students in connecting theory to practice: A case study of a social work teaching intervention. Social Work Education. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/02615479.2023.2283044 Journal - Research Article

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