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Staff Profile

  • Michelle  is a qualified and registered social worker and probation officer. She has been a practitioner and manager in Children’s Services , Probation Services, NSPCC and CEO of a Midlands Training Consortium. She has been a social work academic at De Montfort, Birmingham universities before joining  Northampton University.  Michelle has been a practice educator for 30 years and  has a keen interest in this area of work, which is  reflected in her  research and publications.

    • BA (Hons)  Social work
    • Human development across the lifespan
    • Readiness for Practice
    • Risk and safeguarding.
    • Professional identify
    • Dissertation tutor
    • MA Social work
    • Readiness to practice
    • Project tutor
    • Workshops for Foster Carers
    • Practice Educators Practice – Tutor
    • GEM students and NQSW’s experience on work based placements
    • The impact of Signs of Safety approach
    • Practitioner work-based learning .
    • Integration of linking theory to work based practice
    • Supervision skills and work based learning