Dr David Orr

Biography

David Orr joined the University of Sussex in July 2011 as a Lecturer in Social Work. His particular research interests lie in mental health, education in health and social care, and culturally sensitive care / transcultural psychiatry. His doctoral research focused on the experiences of people suffering from mental illness among the Quechua-speaking peasant communities of Peru. He has also worked in the past on Community Mental Health Teams in the fields of Learning Disability and Older Adult Mental Health, and as Research Fellow in Social Work & Social Care.

Qualifications and Position

BA (Hons.), MSc, M.Res. (Research Methods), PhD

Lecturer in Social Work 

Research

Recent and ongoing research

• An investigation into best practice in self-neglect (funded by the Department of Health)
• Review of theories and practice of pedagogy in schools in low- and middle-income countries (funded by DFID)

Selected Workshops and Talks

• 'Encounters with Self-Neglect: Engagement, governmentality and meaning among health and social care workers in England,’ Joint International EASA Medical Anthropology Network / AAA Society for Medical Anthropology Conference, Tarragona, Spain, June 12^th 2013
• 'The Ethics of Self-Neglect: Practice, policy and the challenge to safeguarding,’ 3^rd European Network for Social Action (ENSACT) Conference, Istanbul, 17^th April 2013
• ‘Should Self-Neglect Automatically be a part of Adult Safeguarding?’ Workstream, Action on Elder Abuse Safeguarding Conference, London, March 25^th 2013
• 'Self-neglect: the implications for safeguarding,' Invited Plenary, Safeguarding Adults Conference: The Care and Support Bill, Derby, March 8th 2013
• ‘Good Practice in Self-Neglect: Messages from Research,’ Invited Plenary (with Prof. Suzy Braye), Safeguarding Adults at Risk Conference, Brighton & Hove, September 14^th 2012
• ‘Self-Neglect: Challenges for Professional Practice,’ Aging and Society: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Berkeley, California, USA, November 8-9^th 2011
• Invited seminar 'Disturbances of Relatedness: the sense and significance of madness in Quechua-speaking peasant communities of Cusco, Peru' at the Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of St Andrews (February 2011).
• Invited seminar 'Madness, Meaning and Kinship in the Andes: Mental illness among Quechua-speaking peasants in rural Peru' at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, London (October 2010).
• Invited lecture 'Suffering, Mental Illness and the Soul: Evangelical Pentecostalism as an option for the sick among peasants in the southern Peruvian Andes' at the Department of Anthropology, University of Montreal, Canada (December 2009). 

Orr, David, Westbrook, Jo, Pryor, John, Durrani, Naureen, Sebba, Judy and Adu-Yeboah , Christine (2013) What are the impacts and cost-effectiveness of strategies to improve performance of untrained and under-trained teachers in the classroom in developing countries? Technical Report. University of London, London.

Orr, David M R (2012) Patterns of persistence amidst medical pluralism: pathways toward cure in the Southern Peruvian Andes. Medical Anthropology, 31 (6). pp. 514-530. ISSN 0145-9740

Braye, Suzy, Orr, David and Preston-Shoot, Michael (2012) The governance of adult safeguarding: findings from research. Journal of Adult Protection, 14 (2). pp. 55-72. ISSN 1466-8203

Braye, Suzy, Orr, David and Preston-Shoot, Michael (2011) Conceptualising and responding to self-neglect: challenges for adult safeguarding. Journal of Adult Protection, 13 (4). pp. 182-193. ISSN 1466-8203

Braye, Suzy, Orr, David and Preston-Shoot, Michael (2011) Self-neglect and adult safeguarding: findings from research. Project Report. Social Care Institute for Excellence, London.

Braye, Suzy, Orr, David and Preston-Shoot, Michael (2011) The governance of adult safeguarding: findings from research. Project Report. Social Care Institute for Excellence.

Orr, David M R (2010) The pursuit of certainty in diagnosing dementia: Cognitive testing, childishness and stress in two British memory clinics. Anthropology & Medicine, 17 (3). pp. 327-338. ISSN 1364-8470

Sharland, Elaine, Taylor, Imogen, Jones, Liz, Orr, David and Whiting, Russell (2007) Interprofessional Education for Qualifying Social Work. Social Care Institute for Excellence. ISBN 9781904812432

Orr, Anne, Orr, David, Willis, Susan, Holmes, Michael and Britton, Peter (2007) Patient perceptions of factors influencing adherence to medication following kidney transplant. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 12 (4). pp. 509-517. ISSN 1354-8506

Lefevre, Michelle, Luckock, Barry, Orr, David, Jones, Mary, Marchant, Ruth and Tanner, Karen (2006) Teaching, Learning and Assessing Communication Skills with Children and Young People in Social Work Education. Project Report. Policy Press, Bristol.

Taylor, Imogen, Sharland, Elaine, Sebba, Judy, Le Riche, Patricia, Keep, Elaine and Orr, David, eds. (2006) The Learning, Teaching and Assessment of Partnership Work in Social Work Education. SCIE Knowledge Reviews . Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). ISBN 9781904812340

Taylor, Imogen, Sharland, Elaine, Sebba, Judy, Le Riche, Patricia, Keep, Elaine and Orr, David (2006) Knowledge Review: Learning, Teaching and Assessment of Partnership Work. Social Care Institute for Excellence. ISBN 978-1-904812-34-0