乌鸦传媒

Jo is currently supervising the following PHD projects

The Experiences of Appealing Disability Benefits 

The Experience of being a Payer  - The Child Maintenance Agency

Obesity as self harm 

Gender, caring and  unequal care packages.

The experience of social workers undertaking age assessments of age disputed children

What is a good priest?

Assessing Black Families in Social Work

The experience of newly qualified integrative counsellors  

Person Centered Care with People with Significant and Profound Disabilities

Supervision in adult social work in England - A qualitative study exploring the experiences of South Asian female supervisees

DSW/PhD completions

 “Standing in the Shadows: Faith, Homelessness and  Troubled Lives”  Professional Doctorate in  Social Work, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust & UEL, September 2012        

 “Decision making in child protection: Psychological processes, emotion and organisational culture”   Tavistock/UEL March 2015

"That joke isn’t funny anymore…An Exploration of Humour, Jokes and their Relationship to Social Work” Tavistock/UEL  September 2015

"The Role of Space in Learning - Spatio-Educational Experiences of Female Students within Emirati Higher Education" UEL, December 2015

 "The Politics of Experience: Young Refugees, The Dialogical Self and Therapeutic Social Work, within a Psycho-Analytic Agency Context" Tavistock/UEL. December 2018

 “It’s personal: Lived Experiences of Adult Social Care and Social Work Practice in a Policy Context of Personalisation” Tavistock/UEL July 2020

 “Pupil Premium for Looked After Children: its allocation, Use and Impact on Educational Outcomes for Children Aged 5-12”.  UEL, 2022

"Developing an Understanding of the Encounters Between Local Authority Social Workers in England and Women who have been subjected to Domestic Abuse" UEL, 2023

"The Contribution of Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SAR)s in the Social Construction of Social Work in England" UEL, 2024

"Hidden in Plain Sight: Social Work with Older people in care homes" 乌鸦传媒, 2024

"Parents, Power and Partnership: A Qualitative Study of Family Experiences of the Education, Health and Care Plan Process" UEL

Jo has taught on a  wide variety of modules previously on undergraduate and post graduate taught programmes including:

• Social work Theory
• Social work Practice
• Social work Ethics and Values
• Children and Families social work
• Social Policy
• Social work Law
• Research methods and methodology

 Jo is a highly experience  course leader, and  was formerly Director of the Professional Doctorate in social work at the University of East London where she also led the following taught modules

• Critically engaging in Social Work and Social Care research
• Researcher Positionality in Social work and Social Care Research
• Research methodology – perspectives on research
• Integrating, Theory, Research and Ethical practice

External Examining

Jo is a highly experienced external examiner of undergraduate and post graduate taught degrees as well as professional Doctorates and PhDs.

Research Interests:

• Practice Learning
• Assessment of students in practice placements
• Learning disability and digital advocacy
• PREVENT, social work and critical social policy
• Social Work Education
• Child Sexual Abuse and Domestic Violence

Current Research Projects:

• Fitness to Practice in Universities (With Sarah Corrie) BA/Leverhulme
• Evaluation of Restitute
• Candour and confidence in social work
• Practice Learning

Research Skills:

• Qualitative Research
• Mixed Methods
• Creative and emancipatory research approaches
• Programme Evaluation

Publications:

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7813-0046

Books:

Maclean, S., Finch, J. & Tedam, P. (2018) SHARE: A New Model for Social work, Kirwin Maclean Associates, Litchfield

Finch, J. (2017) Supporting Struggling Students on Placement: A Practical Guide, Policy Press, Bristol

Journal Articles:

Hoskin, J., James, B. & Finch, J. (2025) ‘More Than a Just a Physical Condition’ – Recognising the Educational and Emotional Needs of Children and Young Adults with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, European Journal of Special Educational Needs

Tedam, P and Finch, J  (2024) “I just don’t have the energy to come in tomorrow”: Fast Tracking racially minoritised Social Work Students to Failure, British Journal of Social Work 

Finch, J and Corrie, S. (2023) Undertaking Fitness to Practice Procedures on Accredited and regulatory programmes: A narrative review of the literature, Practice: Contemporary Issues in Practitioner Education , .

McKendrick, D.  and Finch, J. (2023) Using [un]popular culture in social work education: The Only Way is Essex and Katie Price : What Harvey Did Next, Social Work Education -  The international Journal , .

Finch, J. and Tedam, P.  (2023) Failure to Fail or Fast Tracking to Failure?:  A critical exploration of social work practice placements ,  Social Work Education – The International Journal https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2023.2236153

Kwiatkowska, G., Minnion, A & Finch, J. (2021) The RIX Wiki: the use of multimedia advocacy to support person-centred planning in a special needs secondary school – implications for current policy and practice, Support for Learning,

Hoskin, J. and Finch, J. (2020) Covid 19, Disability and the New Eugenics. Implications for social work policy and practice, in Social Work 2020 under Covid, 4th Edition, 2nd June 2020, available from 

McKendrick D. and Finch, J. (2020) Social Work, Covid 19 and Securitisation,  in Social Work 2020 under Covid,  2nd Edition, 24th April 2020, available from  

McKendrick. D. and Finch, J. (2020) Pressure Drop: Securitising and De-Securitising Safeguarding,  Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, Vol 32 (1) pp:61-72

Finch, J., Jonsson, J., Kamali, M. & McKendrick, D. (2019) Social Work and Countering Violent Extremism in  Sweden and the UK, European Journal of Social Work,

McKendrick, D. and Finch, J. (2019) PREVENT, safeguarding and The Common-Sensing of Social Work in the UK, Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, Vol 31(2), 000–000.

McKendrick, D. and Finch, J. (2017) Downpressor man: securitsation, safeguarding and social work, Critical and Radical Social Work,  Vol 5 (3) pp287-300 doi.org/10.1332/204986017X15029697482460

Finch, J. (2016)  “…it’s just very hard to fail a student…”  Decision making and defences against anxiety – an ethnographic and practice-near study of practice assessment panels. Journal of Social Work Practice,  32 (1) pp51-65 doi: 10.1080/02650533.2016.1158156. 

McKendrick, D. and Finch, J. (2016) “Under Heavy Manners: Social Work, Radicalisation, Troubled Families and Non-linear War, British Journal of Social Work.  47 (2): 308-324.

Finch, J. (2014) “Running with the Fox and Hunting with the Hounds:” Social Work Tutors‘ Experiences of Managing Students Failing in Practice Learning Settings, British Journal of Social Work, volume 45 (7) pp2124-2141

Finch, J., Schaub, J. & Dalrymple, R. (2013) Projective Identification and the Fear of Failing: Making Sense of Practice Educators’ Emotional Experiences of Failing Social Work Students in Practice Learning Settings, Journal of Social Work Practice, Vol 28 (2), pp:139-154

Finch, J. and Poletti, I. (2013) ‘It’s been hell.’ Italian and British Practice Educators’ Narratives of Working with Struggling or Failing Social Work Students in Practice Learning Settings, European Journal of Social Work, Vol 17 (1)    pp:135-150  DOI: 10.1080/13691457.2013.800026

Finch, J. and Taylor, I. (2013) The Emotional Experience of Assessing a Struggling or Failing Social Work Student in Practice Learning Settings, Special Edition – Field Education, Social Work Education, 32 (2) pp:244-258  DOI: 10.1080/02615479.2012.720250

Book Chapters:

Finch, J. and Parker J. (2023) The history and context of contemporary social work (including global social work) Parker, J. (ed) Introducing Social Work, 2^nd Edition, London, Learning Matters, Sage,

Finch, J.. (2023) Looking After Yourself as a Social Worker in Parker, J. (ed) Introducing Social Work, 2^nd Edition, London, Learning Matters, Sage,

McKendrick, D & Finch, J. (2022) Widening the securitisation net in social work in, Webb, S. (Ed) Routledge Handbook of Critical and  Radical Social Work (2nd edition),  London, Routledge

Finch, J. , Hill, N. & Rollins, W (2021)  Assessment in Field Education, Capability, Competence and Contradictions in Egan, R., Hill, N., & Rollins, R (Eds)  Challenges, Opportunities and Innovations in Social Work Field Work Education, Abingdon, Routledge

Finch, J. and Parker J. (2020) The history and context of contemporary social work (including global social work) Parker, J. (ed) Introducing Social Work, London, Learning Matters, Sage,

Finch, J. (2020) Looking After Yourself as a Social Work in Parker, J. (ed) Introducing Social Work, London, Learning Matters, Sage,

Finch, J. (2020) Emotions and the Importance of Personality in Development in Parker, J. and Ashencean Crabtree, S. (Eds) Human Growth and Development in Children and Young People: Theoretical and practice perspectives (Volume 1) Bristol, Policy Press

Finch, J. and McKendrick, D. (2019) Securitising Social Work: Counter Terrorism, Extremism and Radicalisation in Webb, S. (ed) Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work, Routledge, London

Finch, J. (2017) "Yellow Star" in Doel (Ed) Social Work in 42 objects (or more) Kirwin Maclean Publishers

Finch , J. and Poletti, A. (2016) Italian and English Practice Educators Experiences of Working with Struggling or Failing Students in Practice Placements in  Taylor, I .et al (Eds) Routledge International Handbook of Social Work Education, Routledge, London

Finch, J. & Schaub, J. (2015) Projective Identification as an Unconscious Defence: Social Work, Practice Education and the Fear of Failure. in Armstrong, D. & Rustin, M.(eds) Social Defences against Anxiety: Explorations in the Paradigm, Karnac, London

Finch, J. (2010) “It must be a fluke” – The Self-Perceptions of Learners Entering a College of Further and Higher Education, in Jones, P., Storan, J., Hudson, T and Brahma, J. (eds) 'Towards a New Agenda for Lifelong Learning: Access, Diversity and Participation' Forum for Access and Continuing Education, ISBN 1-904133-42-8

Reports:

Finch, J, and  McCulloch, K (2025) An Evaluation of Restitute, Confident Parent and caring, Well Being and health,

Finch, J., Crivatu, I. & Howells, A. (2023) Retaining and Rewarding Practice Educators in Norfolk and Suffolk – Towards Confident Practice, Suffolk and Norfolk Teaching Partnership, Suffolk County Council

Minnion, A. Kwiatkowska, G., Watts, P., Finch, J. & Wilkie, C.,  (2020) Rix media and Research Techforce Feasibility Report, Techforce

Finch, J. (2019) Supporting families that are experiencing domestic abuse and improving children’s mental health and wellbeing in the London Borough of Redbridge. London Borough of Redbridge and Barnados,

Briggs, S. Finch, J., &  Farah, F. (2019) Evaluation of Grassroots men at risk of suicide project, East Sussex County Council.

Briggs, S., Farah, F., Hamblin- Opaluwa, L., Finch, J.  (2017) Evaluation of Counselling Partnership - Survivors of Suicide to inform future provision and commissioning, East Sussex County Council

Briggs, S., Farah, F.  Hamblin- Opaluwa, L, Finch, J. (2017) Evaluation of Grassroots training programme to inform future provision and commissioning, East Sussex County Council

Briggs, S., Finch, J. and Firth, R. (2016) Evaluation of a non-statutory ‘Place of Calm’ ,a service which provides support after a suicidal crisis to inform future commissioning intentions,  Centre for Social Work Research, University of East London 

Finch, J. (2013) A Critical Exploration of Practice Assessment Panels: Participation, power, emotional and decision making in relation to failing social work students, York, Higher Education Academy, 

Finch, J. (2010) An Analysis of Higher Education Student Progression in a College of Further Education, London, Havering College of Further and Higher Education.

Finch, J (2009) Communities and Widening Participation in Higher Education in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, Higher Education Funding Council of England/University of East London, London.  DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.5113.9602 

Finch, J. (2006) The Needs and Expectations of Higher Education Learners in a Further Education College,   Havering College of Further and Higher Education, London,  DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1327.5360

Finch, J. (2005) A small-scale evaluation of tutor support given to practice teachers where there are concerns about marginal or failing students, Falmer, University of Sussex DOI:10.13140/RG.2.1.4393.9603

Finch, J. (2005) A Critical Analytical Study: The Assessment of Marginal and/or Failing Students in Placement, Falmer, University of Sussex.  DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.5114.8567

Selected key notes speeches

Finch, J. (2024), Setting the Scene: A brief history of change in social work policy, practice and education.  Festival of Practice Learning, Practice Educators Conference, UoS, June 2024

Finch, J (2023) “The History of Practice Learning – where are we now?” Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth Social Work Education Network,  Practice Learning Conference 17/7/23

Finch, J. (2023) Being Curious, being Courageous, The  Emotional  Experience  of  working with  a  Struggling  or  failing  social  work student  on  placement, Festival of Practice Learning, UoS, June 2023

Finch, J. (2023) Working Positively with Social Work Students Struggling in Placement, Social Care Wales Practice Learning Hub, 23/3/23

Finch, J. (2023) Courageous Conversations: Working with Struggling Students in Practice Learning Settings, Derbyshire and Nottingham Teaching Partnership, Practice Learning Conference, Feb 23