Dr Caroline Skehill
BSS (Hons), Department of Social Studies, Trinity College, Dublin 2, 1992
Certificate of Qualification in Social Work (CQSW), Trinity College, Dublin, 1992
PhD, Department of Social Studies, Trinity College, 2000: 'The Position of Social Work within the Child Protection and Welfare System in Ireland, A History of the Present: 1991-1862.
Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching (PGCHET), Graduate School of Education, Queens University, Belfast, 2000.
Member of Institute of Learning and Teaching (MILT), 2000 (Now Higher Education Academy).
Senior Lecturer in Social Work
Room 2.20, 6 College Park
Ext: 5990; Email: c.skehill@qub.ac.uk
I qualified as a social worker in 1992 and began my career working in the fields of mental health and child protection. My early academic career was spent at the Department of Social Studies at Trinity College Dublin. I have been working at Queens University since Feb 1999 firstly as a lecturer and presently as a senior lecturer in social work. Over the years, I have developed a particular interest in child protection and welfare; history of social work and using the work of Michel Foucault in social work research. I am currently working on projects concerned with history and the present of social work in different European contexts.
Teaching Interests
My main teaching interests include: child protection and welfare; history of social work, ethics and values, anti-oppressive practice and critical social work theory. I also play a lead role in relation to embedding ICT in the social work curriculum. I am presently Director of Education for social Work.
Recent Publications
Satka M & Skehill C (forthcoming) Michel Foucault and Dorothy Smith in Case File research: Strange Bed-Fellows or Complimentary Thinkers, Qualitative Social Work
Skehill C (forthcoming) History of Child Welfare and Protection Social Work in Northern Ireland: Finding Continuity amongst Discontinuity in Case Files from 1950-1968 Child Care in Practice
Satka M & Skehill C (2010) ‘Child Care in Europe: History Reference Paper’ Oxford Bibliographies On-line, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Skehill C (2010a) ‘History of Social Work in the Republic of Ireland’ Oxford Bibliographies On-line, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Skehill C (2010b) ‘History of social work in the UK’; Oxford Bibliographies On-line, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Skehill C (2010c) ‘History of Social Work in Northern Ireland’ Oxford Bibliographies On-line, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Skehill C (2009) ‘An Integrative Approach to Teaching Gender and Social Work’ In Leskosek V (ed) ‘Teaching Gender in Social Work’ ATHENA Publication series, ATHENA, Utrecht.
Skehill C (2008a) (Guest Editor) Looking Back While Moving forward: Historical Perspectives in Social Work. Special Edition of the British Journal of Social Work, Vol 38, No. 4
Skehill C (2008b) ‘Socio-legal Practices in Child Welfare and Protection in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: Histories of the Present and Possibilities for the Future’ in Burns K & Lynch D (eds.) Child Protection and Welfare Social Work: A Changing Profession in a Changing Ireland, A& A Farmer, Dublin.
Skehill C (2008c) ‘Women and the History of Social Work in the Early to Mid-20th Century in the Republic of Ireland: An Exploration of the Care-Control Dilemma’. in Schultz D & Hauss G. Dual Mandate: Care and Control in the History of Social Work
Budrich, Opladen, Germany Greig M & Skehill C (2008) ‘Increasing Staff & Student capacity to use the communication facility in Queens on Line in order to support learning and teaching on a BSW programme’ in Special Edition of Social Work Education on Use of ICT in Social Work, 27(6) 634-646
Skehill C (2007) 'Researching the history of social work: Exposition of a history of the present approach' European Journal of Social Work, 10(4) 449-463.
Houston S, Skehill C, Pinkerton J & Campbell J (2005) 'Prying open the space for social work in the new millennium: four theoretical perspectives on transformative practice' Social Work and Social Sciences Review 12 (1) 35-52.
Kearney N & Skehill C (2005) (editors) Social Work in Ireland: Historical Perspectives. Institute of Public Administration, Dublin
Skehill C (2005) 'Child Protection and Welfare Social Work in the Republic of Ireland: Continuities and Discontinuities between the Past and the Present' in Kearney N & Skehill C (2005) (editors) Social Work in Ireland: Historical Perspectives. Institute of Public Administration, Dublin
Skehill C (2004) History of the Present of Child Protection and Welfare Social Work in Ireland Edwin Mellen Press, Lampeter
