Lynn Froggett

Areas of Interest

Lynn Froggett’s orientation is strongly interdisciplinary, drawing on a background in social science and the humanities. She has a particular interest in the development of  interdisciplinary psychosocial and psychosocietal approaches to policy and practice, and it is this has led to her re-location in the School of Post-Graduate Medicine  where she leads the Psychosocial Research Unit. However she still maintains strong links with social work and is part of the social work research  grouping for the RAE. Her research and scholarship draws on an extensive experience of clinical practice and perspectives from history, philosophy, sociology, social policy, psychoanalytic theory and gender studies.  Her wider intellectual project is to develop the theoretical and conceptual terrain on which to link social policy and social provision with day-to-day experiences of care. This is supported by an empirical research programme in community based settings in both the statutory and voluntary sector.  Her  publications reflect these interests which are synthesised in  Love, Hate and Welfare: psychosocial approaches to policy and practice (Froggett 2002, Policy Press). In this book she links social responsibility to its psychosocial roots and develops a distinctively  psychosocietal approach to thechanging relationships between professionals, managers and people who use services in the British welfare system. Over the past decade a similar approach has informed work on social work education, managerialism, professional supervision and management, aesthetic dimensions of care, dependency, rights and recognition, narrative and biographical traditions in practice, research and welfare organisations.

Her empirical research interests have included the role of professional supervision in changing organisational culture, social workers’ responses to legislative and policy change, the use of biography and art in community work,  early years support for parents,  and creative interventions in restorative justice for young offenders.  She has worked on the development of multi-method evaluation design using narrative, biographical and arts-based methodologies.

Publications

Refereed Journals (since 2000):

Farrier, A., Froggett, L., and Poursanidou, K (2007 forthcoming) Creative Writing and Restorative justice: reparation or wishful thinking?

Froggett, L. (2007b) Arts Based Learning in Restorative Youth Justice: embodied, moral and aesthetic. Journal of Social Work Practice, 21, 2, 249-361

Froggett, L., Farrier, A., and Poursanidou, K (2007) Making Sense of Tom: seeing the reparative in restorative justice. Journal of Social Work Practice, 21,1, 103-117

Buckner, S (2005) Buckner, S 'Taking the debate on reflexivity further: psychodynamic team analysis of a BNIM interview', Journal of Social Work Practice, 19 (1), pp. 59-72.

Froggett, L (2005) Social Work, Art and the Politics of Recognition. Social Work and Social Science Review 11, 3, 29-51

Froggett, L., and Chamberlayne, P. (2004) Narratives of Social Enterprise: from biography to practice and policy critique Qualitative Social Work 3, 1, 61-77

Froggett, L., and Wengraf, T. (2004) Interpreting interviews in the light of research team dynamics: a study of Nila’s biographic narrative Critical Psychology Vol. 10

Froggett, L., and Richards, B. (2003) Exploring the Bio-psychosocial European Journal of Counselling, Psychotherapy and Health. Vol. 5, 3, 321-326.

Froggett, L. and Kaufmann, W. (2002) Quixotic Humanism. Free Associations 9, 2 177-188.

Froggett, L. (2001) From Rights to Recognition: Mental Health and Spiritual Healing among Older Pakistanis, Psychoanalytic Studies Vol 3, 2, 177-186.

Froggett, L. (2000) Care and Commodity Aesthetics in (eds) Paylor, I, Froggett, L & Harris, J Reclaiming Social Work: the Southport papers Vol. 2. Birmingham, Venture Press.

Froggett, L. (2000) Staff Supervision and Dependency Culture: a case study. Journal of Social Work Practice 14, 1, 7-35. 2000c From Rights to Recognition: Mental Health and Spiritual Healing among Older Pakistanis. Proceedings of International conference Multiculturalism in Social Work and Mental Health Practice.

Research Reports (since 2000)

2008 (forthcoming with R. Little) Arts and Inclusion: evaluation of three linked initiatives in Calderdale. University of Central Lancashire

2008 (forthcoming with A.Farrier and K. Poursanidou) Innovative evaluation through user discourse: meta-evaluation in two contrasting public arts settings. University of Central Lancashire

2008 (forthcoming with K. Poursanidou and A. Farrier) Comparing Creative Interventions with Young Offenders. University of Central Lancashire

2008 (forthcoming with R. Little) Evaluation of University College Hospital Arts Programme. University of Central Lancashire

2007 (forthcoming with S. Buckner and K.Poursanidou) Evaluation of Bromley by Bow Surestart/Children’s Centre. University of Central Lancashire

2007 (with A. Farrier and K. Poursanidou) Evaluation of Whitehill Story-telling project. University of Central Lancashire

2006 (with A. Farrier and K. Poursanidou)Creative Writing with Young Offenders in Calderdale. University of Central Lancashire.

2005 (with P. Chamberlayne, S. Buckner & T. Wengraf) The Bromley by Bow Research and Evaluation Project: integrated practice – focus on older people. University of Central Lancashire.

Books

White, S., Bilson, A., Froggett, L. and Smith, C. (2008 forthcoming) Developing Compassionate Concern in the Human Services. Bristol: Policy Press

Froggett, L (2002) Love, Hate and Welfare: psychosocial approaches to policy and practice, Bristol: Policy Press

Book Chapters and Peer Reviewed Conference Publications (Since 2000) :

2008 (forthcoming) Artistic output as intersubjective third in (eds) S. Clarke and P. Hoggett Object Relations and Social Relations: The Implications of the Relational Turn in Psychoanalysis. London: Karnac

2007 (a) Gendered subjectivity, psycho-societal and embodied: using visual methods. Metodos Qualitativos nas Ciencias Sociais e na Pratica. Editora da UFPE Recife: Brazil.

2006 (in eds. S. White, J. Fook & F. Gardner) Thinking with the body: artistic perception and critical reflection. Critical Reflection and Professional Development: the state of the art. Open University Press.

2006 (with P. Chamberlayne) Récits d’entreprise sociale: de la biographie à la critique des pratiques et des politiques (traduction J. Lardeau), eds. I. Astier and N. Duvoux Société biographique: une injonction à vivre dignement" :Logiques Sociales, Paris l'Harmattan

2000 Care and Commodity Aesthetics in (eds) Paylor, I, Froggett, L & Harris, J Reclaiming Social Work: the Southport papers Vol. 2. Birmingham, Venture Press.

2000 From Rights to Recognition: Mental Health and Spiritual Healing among Older Pakistanis. Proceedings of International conference hosted by New York University School of Social Work and the Tavistock Clinic: Multiculturalism in Social Work and Mental Health Practice, Barcelona. New York University Press

Projects

• Lynn has managed the following major research project: Bromley by Bow research and evaluation project
• Lynn edits the Journal of Social Work Practice
• Lynn is a an executive member of the International Research Group for Psycho-Societal Analysis