‘Supporting Practitioners to be Research-active’
Dr Lesley Deacon, Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Applied Sciences and Programme Leader for the Health and Social Care Programme talks about the research project she is currently working on with the Wallsend Children Community.
Dr Lesley Deacon qualified as a social worker in 2007 and worked in front line child protection at a local authority until becoming a lecturer in 2011, she is also a Senior Fellow of AHE. Lesley can be contacted at lesley.deacon@sunderland.ac.uk