
Dr Russell Whiting
Post: | Emeritus Associate Professor (Social Work and Social Care) |
Location: | ESSEX HOUSE EH218 |
Email: | R.Whiting@sussex.ac.uk |
Telephone numbers | |
Internal: | 8167 |
UK: | 01273 678167 |
International: | +44 1273 678167 |
Biography
Qualifications and Position
- BA (Hons), MSW, PhD
- Senior Lecturer of Social Work
- Head of Department
Summary
- My social work experience is mainly with children and families - specifically most recently managing a family centre for a voluntary agency in London. Prior to that worked for statutory social services department as a manager of a respite care unit for children with learning disabilities. Before that I spent a number of years abroad living in Bosnia and before that in The Netherlands.
- My PhD was on the history and current practice of social work as a profession in the churches in Britain. I maintain an interest in social work history and in the topics of religion and spirituality in social work practice and education.
- Along with colleagues in the department I an interested in social work education as a research topic and how research can advance the quality and standing of that education.
Professional Activities
- Member, Social Work History Network
- Member, British Association for the Study of Spirituality
Teaching
- I convene modules on the BA qualifyiong programme on Social Work with Children and on Values, Ethics and Theories. On the MA qualifying programme I convene the Human DEvelopment and SOcial Responsibility Module. At our Partner institution, University Collge Jersey I convene the Values, Ethics and Theories module.
- I also contribute to other teaching at qualifying, post qualifying and doctoral level particularly on professional ethics and values and on religion and spirituality
Tutoring
- I see the tutoring role as key to my work and currently I am tutor for groups of BA first year and third year students.
Recent Publications
Luckock, Barry, Sims, Louise, Whiting, Russell, Meleyal, Lel and Hampden-Thompson, Gillian (2017) Cornerstone Adoption Support Programme: evaluation report. Project Report. Department for Education, London.
Luckock, Barry, Whiting, Russell, Meleyal, Lel, Sims, Louise and Hampden-Thompson, Gillian (2017) Coram’s permanence improvement project: children’s social care innovation programme evaluation report 24. Project Report. Department for Education.
Whiting, Russell (2017) Material spirituality: challenging gnostic tendencies in contemporary understandings of religion and spirituality. In: Crisp, B (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Religion, Spirituality and Social Work. Routledge, Abingdon.
Whiting, Russell and Gurbai, Sándor (2015) Moving from the implicit to the explicit: ‘spiritual rights’ and the United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 4 (3). pp. 103-126. ISSN 1929-9192
Whiting, Russell (2015) Gestures of mutuality: bridging social work values and skills through Erasmian humanism. Ethics and Social Welfare, 9 (4). pp. 328-342. ISSN 1749-6535
Whiting, Russell (2015) Don't mention the war: a response to Reeves and McIvor on the early career of Clement Attlee. Renewal: a Journal of Labour Politics, 23 (1/2). pp. 117-126. ISSN 0968-252X
Whiting, Russell (2013) Gandhianism in London: Bringing the past to bear on the present in discussion of the social work and spirituality of Muriel and Doris Lester. International Social Work, 56 (3). pp. 403-415. ISSN ISSN: 0020-8728
Role
Currently Head of Department for Social Work and SOcial Care - Appointed January 2019