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
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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. (2023). Using life-history maps to support students in connecting theory to practice: A case study of a social work teaching intervention. Social Work Education. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/02615479.2023.2283044
O'Brien, F., Hawthorne-Steele, I., Pascoe, K. M., Moreland, R., Cownie, E., & Killick, C. (2023). Bridging the gap between social work and community development: Implementing a post-graduate training partnership. Social Work Education. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/02615479.2023.2252844
Pascoe, K. M., Waterhouse-Bradley, B., & McGinn, T. (2023). Social workers’ experiences of bureaucracy: A systematic synthesis of qualitative studies. British Journal of Social Work, 53, 513-533. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcac106
Pascoe, K. M. (2022). Remote service delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic: Questioning the impact of technology on relationship-based social work practice. British Journal of Social Work, 52(6), 3268-3287. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcab242
Pascoe, K. M. (2022). Reflections on a systematic literature review: Questioning the (in)visibility of researcher positionality. Social Work Research, 46(2), 176-180. doi: 10.1093/swr/svac006