Dr Mark Smith
Head of Social Work and Senior Lecturer
Bio
Mark is Head of Social Work and Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.
He spent almost 20 years as a practitioner and manager in List D schools/secure accommodation, and his PhD was essentially an oral history charting changing discourses of care in Scottish residential schools.
He has research and writing interests across a wide range of residential child care policy and practice, especially around concepts of care and upbringing. He has a particular interest in European models of social pedagogy and in applying these in a Scottish context.
Keywords: Youth crime, residential child care, Kilbrandon, social education, false allegations.
Contact
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- Email:
- mark.smith@ed.ac.uk
- Phone Number:
- 0131 650 4637
- Address:
- University of Edinburgh
School of Social and Political Science
Chrystal MacMillan Building
15A George Square, Edinburgh