Paul Shuttleworth
Associate (Social Work and Social Care)

Research

I am committed to public service and to the idea that social work and academia have a responsibility to instigate change and give back. My primary research interests include a commitment to social justice, and to challenge individualism and the positivistic views that I once held while gaining my degree in Psychology. I believe it is crucial that we have a more contextual understanding of how knowledge is constructed and implemented, and its relationship with power and identity. I have taken an interest in the areas of child permanence, constructs of childhood, child neglect and abuse, power, domestic violence, kinship care, participatory action research, radical social work, identity, critical realism, Foucault, feminism, gender studies, antisemitism, and queer theory. I also work with understandings of attachment, resilience, child development, psychodynamic, systemic, and ecological theories.