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(PhD, MA, BSW, AFHEA)

Lecturer

Contact details

Office: Room 6C09, 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

Mackle, D., Pascoe, K. M., & O'Brien, F. (2025). Opportunities to strengthen community development teaching in undergraduate social work programmes: An international curriculum comparative case study analysis. Social Work Education. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/02615479.2024.2445063 Journal - Research Article

Pascoe, K. M. (2025). ‘I don’t think they look at this as an issue’: Exploring the training and development needs of practice educators in social work field education. British Journal of Social Work. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcaf032 Journal - Research Article

Zuchowski, I., & Pascoe, K. M. (2024). Surveying placement supervisors' continued professional development needs. Proceedings of the Joint Symposium of the National Field Education Network (NFEN) and the Australian & New Zealand Social Work & Welfare Education & Research (ANZSWWER). 33. Retrieved from https://www.anzswwer.org/symposium/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Pascoe, K. M., & Stanley-Clarke, N. (2024). The challenges of contextualisation: Critical reflections on communicating local value within a global study. Proceedings of the Joint Symposium of the National Field Education Network (NFEN) and the Australian & New Zealand Social Work & Welfare Education & Research (ANZSWWER). 10. Retrieved from https://www.anzswwer.org/symposium/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Pascoe, K. M. (2024). [Review of the book Introducing social work: Second edition]. British Journal of Social Work, 54, 1388-1390. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcae002 Journal - Research Other

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