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(PhD, MA, BSW, AFHEA)

Lecturer

Contact details

Office: Room 2.C18, Richardson Building
Email katheryn.pascoe@otago.ac.nz

Background

Dr Katheryn Margaret Pascoe is a Lecturer in the University of Otago's Social and Community Work Programme. After qualifying and practicing as a social worker here in Aotearoa, Katheryn Margaret later moved to the UK to complete a MA International Development at IDS, Sussex University, and completed her PhD in social work and social policy at Ulster University in Northern Ireland.

Research

I have a capacity and interest in taking on PhD or MA students with an interest in the following areas:

  • Bureaucracy and managerialism in social services
  • Social work in disaster response and emergency relief
  • Work force development and wellbeing
  • Community development in social work practice
  • Social policy with a focus on gender analysis

ResearchGate profile – Katheryn Margaret Pascoe

Projects

  • Northern Ireland Department of Health Reflections Project
    Mainstreaming community development in social work practice.
  • PhD EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie and DTA Co-Fund Fellow
    Social workers' perspectives on relationship-based practice:  A mixed methods study of frontline practice in Northern Ireland.

Publications

Pascoe, K. M. (2026). Training the trainer: A topical discussion exploring the development needs of placement supervisors in social work field education. International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 27(2), 409-422. Journal - Research Article

Pascoe, K. M. (2026). Synthesizing the literature to inform social work practice and research. In C. Fouché & L. Beddoe (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Social Work. (pp. 404-406). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781035310234.00144 Chapter in Book - Research

Pascoe, K. M. (2026). Systematic literature searching for social work. In C. Fouché & L. Beddoe (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Social Work. (pp. 407-409). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781035310234.00145 Chapter in Book - Research

Pascoe, K. M., & Stanley-Clarke, N. (2026). The challenges of contextualization: Critical reflections on communicating local value within a global study. International Social Work, 69(1), 139-144. doi: 10.1177/00208728251382828 Journal - Research Article

Pascoe, K. M. (2025, October). Recognising student placement supervision as a specialist field of practice for sustainable workforce development. Verbal presentation at the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) Europe Regional Conference: Bridging Communities: Building Sustainable Futures, Oslo, Norway. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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