Bridget Penhale

Career

Professional Qualifications and professional memberships

• CQSW 1981
• ASW (Approved Social Worker) 1984-1994
• Registered Social Worker 2004-present

Research interests

• Elder Abuse – including institutional violence
• Adult protection/adult safeguarding
• Domestic and intimate partner violence
• Interpersonal violence and family violence
• Attachment and intergenerational relationships in later life
• Mental health of older people
• Social care and older people
• Loss, grief and bereavement in later life
• Ethics and social care
• Social care outcomes of stroke
• Social work and health

Career summary

During the first sixteen years of my career I gained wide clinical social work and managerial experience across a variety of hospital and community services including: generic social work and specialisation with older people, including Approved Social Worker status (mental health). My first academic post was a joint appointment split between the School of Social Work, UEA and Norfolk Social Services (1989-1992). I later moved to a full-time post at the University of Hull (1996) and subsequently (in 2004) to the University of Sheffield, where I was predominantly involved in research concerning older people. Between 2006-2008 I held a joint appointment between the University of Sheffield and the Institute of Health and Social Care Studies, Guernsey, where I held a post as Head of Research.

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