Lesley Deacon

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Lesley Deacon

Email address:

lesley.deacon@sunderland.ac.uk

Department:

Faculty of Education & Society (2SAP)

Organisation:

University of Sunderland

Biography

Job title:

Senior Lecturer Social Work and Applied Social Studies

Biography:

Dr Lesley Deacon is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Studies and Social Work, programme leader of the Foundation degree in Health and Social Care and FES Disability Tutor at the University of Sunderland. She 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 teaches modules across levels 4 to 7 primarily focused on social work theory, practice, and research. Her research interests include: social work theory and practice; critical realist grounded theory; social work organisations and practice; practitioner research; sexually harmful behaviour; disability; and working with children.

Qualifications:

BA(Hons), PGCHE, MA, M.Phil, MSW, PhD

My Latest

Deacon, Lesley, Phillips, Carrie and Bikova, Zeta (2023) Facilitated Practice-based Research: An Empowering Pedagogical Approach to Reframe Research Capacity in Social Work Practitioners. In: JSWEC 2023, 15-16/06/2023, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
Deacon, Lesley and Bikova, Zeta (2023) An exploration of Children’s Community Practitioners’ Perspectives of Local families’ Challenges during Covid-19. Project Report. University of Sunderland. (Unpublished)
Deacon, Lesley (2023) Facilitated Practice-based Research (copyright, University of Sunderland): A model of empowerment to reduce research anxiety in social work practitioner researchers and reframe cultural capital. European Social Work Research, 1 (1). ISSN 2755-1768
Deacon, Lesley and Thomason, Paige (2022) Facilitated Practice-based Research: bridging the gap between social work research and practice. In: 6th International Conference on Practice Research in Social Work, 7-9 June 2023, Aalborg, Denmark. (Submitted)
Aggar, Emma and Deacon, Lesley (2022) An exploration of the Wallsend Children’s Community’s Emergency Response Grant as an Emerging Necessity. Project Report. University of Sunderland, Sunderland. (Unpublished)
Deacon, Lesley (2022) Emancipatory practice development in social welfare service evaluation – a worked example. International Practice Development Journal. (In Press)
Deacon, Lesley, Nicholson, Philip and Allen, Kim (2020) A Neoliberalist Solution for a Neoliberalist Problem: The Neoliberalist normalisation of psychosocial support for parent-carers. CASS Woking Papers.
Deacon, Lesley, Macdonald, Stephen J and Nixon, Jacqui (2019) The Loss: Conceptualising Biographical Experiences of Disability, Social Isolation and Emotional Loneliness in North-East England. Social Work & Social Sciences Review, 20 (3). pp. 68-87. ISSN 1746-6105

My Most Viewed

	Item title
1	The Loss: Conceptualising Biographical Experiences of Disability, Social Isolation and Emotional Loneliness in North-East England	163	21
2	A Neoliberalist Solution for a Neoliberalist Problem: The Neoliberalist normalisation of psychosocial support for parent-carers	156	36
3	Emancipatory practice development in social welfare service evaluation – a worked example	88	43
4	Facilitated Practice-based Research: bridging the gap between social work research and practice	18	9
5	Facilitated Practice-based Research (copyright, University of Sunderland): A model of empowerment to reduce research anxiety in social work practitioner researchers and reframe cultural capital	17	13
6	An exploration of Children’s Community Practitioners’ Perspectives of Local families’ Challenges during Covid-19	13	5
7	An exploration of the Wallsend Children’s Community’s Emergency Response Grant as an Emerging Necessity	11	4

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