Morris, Kate, Professor

Professor Kate Morris

BA (Hons), CQSW, PhD

Department of Sociological Studies

Professor of Social Work

Deputy Vice President of Education

kate.morris@sheffield.ac.uk

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Professor Kate Morris
Department of Sociological Studies
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH

Profile

Kate Morris is a qualified registered social worker, and joined the Сŷ��Ƶ of Sheffield in 2015. She was previously Director of the Centre for Social Work and Deputy Head of School, Сŷ��Ƶ of Nottingham. She began her career as an academic at the Сŷ��Ƶ of Birmingham.

However, Kate gained substantial experience in practice, management and policy development prior to moving into social work education and through her research and her involvement in national and international social work developments has remained very closely connected to practice.

Research interests

Kate’s areas of interest are: family minded policy and practice, family participation in care and protection, the reform of safeguarding practice and child welfare inequalities. She is passionate about social work and the role of social work in supporting change.

Kate managed the large scale complex national evaluation of the Children’s Fund (2003 – 2006) and has retained a strong interest in early help and family support.

Kate was funded to explore the involvement of families in the reviews of cases when a child has died or suffered serious injury as a result of abuse and, with Professor Brid Featherstone is leading an exploratory study of the perspectives and experiences of families with multiple and complex needs.

This builds on her previous work for the UK government as part of the 'Think Family' policy stream, and her work internationally reviewing the evidence concerned with the impact and effect of family decision making in care and protection.

Kate leads the case study strand for the . Kate is active in international and national social work reform, and was previously chair of JUCSWEC. Kate sits on the international advisory board for the journal Families, Societies and Relationships and the Editorial Board for the journal Relational Social Work.

She is a reviewer for national and international grant making organisations and research funders, and has held various national policy advisory roles. Kate is the academic lead for the Faculty of Social Sciences ‘Children’s Chances’ stream and supervises PhD students in the areas of family caring relationships, family interventions and family support.

Publications

Books

Featherstone B, Gupta A, Morris K & White S (2018) Protecting Children: A Social Model. Policy Press.
Featherstone B, White S & Morris KM (2014) Re-imagining child protection: Towards humane social work with families. Bristol: Policy Press.
Morris K, Barnes M & Mason P (2009) Children, families and social exclusion: New approaches to prevention.
Morris K (2008) Social work and multi-agency working: Making a difference.

Journal articles

Featherstone B, Gupta A & Morris K (2021) . Critical and Radical Social Work.
Webb C, Bywaters P, Scourfield J, McCartan C, Bunting L, Davidson G & Morris K (2020) . Children and Youth Services Review, 111.
Ferguson G, Featherstone B & Morris K (2019) . Critical and Radical Social Work.
Mason W, Morris K, Webb C, Daniels B, Featherstone B, Bywaters P, Mirza N, Hooper J, Brady G, Bunting L & Scourfield J (2019) . Journal of Mixed Methods Research.
Featherstone B, Morris KM, Daniel B, Bywaters P, Brady G, Bunting L, Mason WJ & Mirza N (2019) . Children and Youth Services Review, 97, 127-133.
Bywaters P, Featherstone B & Morris K (2019) . Social Sciences, 8(2).
Bywaters P, Scourfield J, Webb C, Morris KM, Featherstone B, Brady G, Jones C & Sparks T (2019) . Children and Youth Services Review, 96, 145-154.
Morris KM, Mason W, Bywaters P, Daniel B, Featherstone B, Mirza N, Brady G, Bunting L, Scourfield J, Hooper J & Webb C (2018) . Child and Family Social Work, 23(3), 364-372.
Keddell E & Davie G (2018) . Social Sciences, 7(6).
Walsh JC, White S, Morris K & Doherty P (2018) . European Journal of Social Work.
Sen RN, Morris K, Burford G, Featherstone B & Webb C (2018) . Children and Youth Services Review, 88, 441-449.
Featherstone B, Gupta A, Morris KM & Warner J (2018) . Families, Relationships and Societies, 7(1), 7-22.
Bywaters P, Brady G, Bunting L, Daniel B, Featherstone B, Jones C, Morris KM, Scourfield J, Sparks T & Webb C (2018) . Child & Family Social Work, 23(1), 53-61.
Featherstone B, Gupta A & Morris K (2017) . Journal of Children's Services, 12(2-3), 190-196.
Morris KM, Archard P, Laird S & Clawson R (2017) . Journal of Social Work Practice.
Morris KM, White S, Doherty P & Warwick L (2017) . Child and Family Social Work, 22(S3), 51-60.
Laid S, Morris KM, Archard P & Clawson R (2017) . Child and Family Social Work.
Laid S, Morris KM, Archard P & Clawson R (2017) . Qualitative Social Work.
Bywaters P, Brady G, Sparks T, Bos E, Bunting L, Daniel B, Featherstone B, Morris K & Scourfield J (2015) . Children and Youth Services Review, 57, 98-105.
Morris K, Brandon M & Tudor P (2015) . Child Abuse Review, 24(3), 198-209.
Featherstone B, Morris K & White S (2014) . British Journal of Social Work, 44(7), 1735-1749.
Featherstone B, White S & Morris K (2014) .
Featherstone B, White S & Morris K (2014) .
Morris K (2013) . Child & Family Social Work, 18(2), 198-206.
Morris K, White S & Featherstone B (2013) . Families, Relationships and Societies, 2(3), 457-458.
Morris K (2012) . British Journal of Social Work, 42(5), 906-920.
Morris K & Connolly M (2012) . Child Abuse Review, 21(1), 41-52.
Pennell J, Burford G, Connolly M & Morris K (2011) Introduction taking child and family rights seriously: Family engagement and its evidence in child welfare. Child Welfare, 90(4), 9-18.
Morris K & Featherstone B (2010) . Social Policy and Society, 9(4), 557-566.
Morris K, Barnes M & Balloch S (2009) . Social Work Education, 28(3), 230-236.
Barnes M & Morris K (2008) . Journal of Social Policy, 37(02).
Barnes M & Morris K (2007) . Social Policy and Society, 6(2), 193-197.
Morris K & Burford G (2007) . Social Policy and Society, 6(2), 209-217.
Mason P, Morris K & Smith P (2005) . Children & Society, 19(2), 131-143.
Waterson J & Morris K (2005) . Social Work Education, 24(6), 653-675.
Morris K (2002) . Child & Family Social Work, 7(2), 144-145.
JACKSON S & MORRIS K (1999) . British Journal of Social Work, 29(4), 621-630.
Mason W, Morris K, Featherstone B, Bunting L, Davidson G, McCartan C, Bywaters P & Webb C () . The British Journal of Social Work.
Morris K & Barnes M () . British Journal of Social Work, 38(6), 1194-1211.

Chapters

(2018) , Protecting Children (pp. 27-44). Policy Press
(2018) , Protecting Children (pp. 1-26). Policy Press
(2018) , Protecting Children (pp. 67-82). Policy Press
(2018) , Protecting Children (pp. 125-142). Policy Press
(2018) , Protecting Children (pp. 143-158). Policy Press
(2018) , Protecting Children (pp. 159-168). Policy Press
(2018) , Protecting Children (pp. 107-124). Policy Press
(2018) , Protecting Children (pp. 45-66). Policy Press
(2018) , Protecting Children (pp. 83-106). Policy Press
Morris K (2018) , Comparing the Social Policy Experience of Britain and Taiwan (pp. 201-208). Routledge
Morris KM & Burford G (2017) Engaging Families in Practice In Connolly M & Parton N (Ed.), Beyond the Risk Paradigm in Child Protection Current Debates and New Directions Palgrave
Morris K & Hughes N (2016) Families in transition: Family minded policy and practice: A critical analysis of contemporary approaches to vulnerable families, Global Social Transformation and Social Action: The Role of Social Workers: Social Work-Social Development Volume III (pp. 128-131).
Morris K & Hughes N (2014) Family minded policy and practice: A critical analysis of contemporary approaches to vulnerable families, Global Social Transformation and Social Action: The Role of Social Workers: Social Work-Social Development Volume III (pp. 128-131).
White S, Morris K, Featherstone B, Brandon M & Thoburn J (2014) Re-imagining early help: Looking forward, looking back, Moving on from Munro: Improving Children's Services (pp. 73-88).
(2009) , Children, Families and Social Exclusion (pp. 1-4). Policy Press
(2009) , Children, Families and Social Exclusion (pp. 29-42). Policy Press
(2009) , Children, Families and Social Exclusion (pp. 129-144). Policy Press
(2009) , Children, Families and Social Exclusion (pp. 43-66). Policy Press
(2009) , Children, Families and Social Exclusion (pp. 67-84). Policy Press
(2009) , Children, Families and Social Exclusion (pp. 85-110). Policy Press
(2009) , Children, Families and Social Exclusion (pp. 5-28). Policy Press
(2009) , Children, Families and Social Exclusion (pp. 111-128). Policy Press
Morris K & Burford G (2009) Family decision making: New spaces for participation and resistance, Subversive Citizens: Power, Agency and Resistance in Public Services (pp. 119-136).
Morris K (2008) Setting the scene, Social Work and Multi-Agency Working: Making a Difference (pp. 1-8).
Morris K (2008) Conclusion, Social Work and Multi-Agency Working: Making a Difference (pp. 167-174).
Morris K (2008) In Morris K (Ed.), Social work and multi-agency working : making a difference (pp. 167-174). Bristol Сŷ��Ƶ Press
Featherstone B & Morris K () , The SAGE Handbook of Social Work (pp. 341-354). SAGE Publications Ltd

Reports

Churchill HA, Morris K & Richardson-Foster H (2018) Exploring the lessons from the dissemination of research to the judiciary involved in public family law and child care proceedings
Mason P, Ferguson H, Morris K, Munton T & Sen RN (2017) Leeds Family Valued. Evaluation Report

Website content

Morris K, Mason W, Bywaters P, Featherstone B, Daniels B & Mirza N Why those most needing child protection might be least likely to get it.

Research group: Kate supervises PhD students in the areas of family practices, social work practice, child protection, and has acted as an external examiner for doctoral students at universities across the UK including Edinburgh, Birmingham, Cardiff, Royal Holloway and is currently an external examiner for the MA Social Work at the Сŷ��Ƶ of Bristol.

Grants

2019-21 RIP Change Programme. Title: Domestic Abuse: Thinking Differently about Responses
2014-19 . Title: Identifying and understanding inequalities in child welfare intervention rates (with Professor Paul Bywaters. PI)
2015-18 . Title: Family complexity and social work: A comparative study of family-based welfare work in different welfare regimes (with Professor Sue White, UK lead)
2012-17 BIG Lottery. Title: Improving Futures : National Evaluation
2015-16 ESRC, . Title: Knowledge exchange programme ‘Family Potential’
2015-16 DfE / Leeds City Council. Title: An Evaluation of Leeds Innovation Programme Family Valued
2014-16 Lankelly Chase / . Title: Family Experiences of Multiple Service Use (with Professor Brid Featherstone)
2013-15 British Academy. Title: Theorising Families: An examination of social work practices

Teaching activities

Kate currently convenes the following undergraduate module:

SCS2006 - Sociology of the Family

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