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Christian Kerr

Lecturer

Christian is a social worker and lecturer in Social Work and Social and Community Studies at Leeds Beckett University. He has been a mental health support worker and community worker, and has practised as a social worker with adults with physical disabilities, mental health issues, learning disabilities, neurological conditions and brain injuries.

Christina's research so far has mainly been in the area of reform and networks of power and influence in children’s services, an example being his contribution to the The Interdependence of Independence: A Network Map of Children’s Services. He was a member of the editorial collective of SW2020/21 under Covid-19 magazine and was at that time the only full time practitioner in the editorial team.

Christian's current research projects include:

Forthcoming book The Future of Children’s Care: Critical Perspectives on Children’s Services Reform (Policy Press) (co-editor)
Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic (lead author) (chapter in forthcoming book Social Work in Wales (Bristol University Press))
Against a bitter tide: How a small UK charity operationalises dissent to challenge the hostile environment for migrant children and families (lead author) (journal article in forthcoming 'dissent special edition' of Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work

Christian is the current chair of the North East branch of the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) and a resource reviews editor for Practice: Social Work in Action.

Research Interests

Christian's current research is aimed at uncovering power relations in respect of policy reform, with a particular focus on children's services reform, and at encouraging social workers to reclaim their own power so that people have a proportionate say in shaping policy and the delivery of services and support.

Additionally, Christian's aim is to promote social work as one profession, fit to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex and quickly changing world, while looking outward and actively seeking alliances and solidarity with other professions with which people share common missions, principles and aims, such as education and health professions.