Professor Lynn Froggett

Lynn Froggett is Professor of Psychosocial Welfare and Director of the Psychosocial Research Unit within the Institute of Philosophy, Diversity and Mental Health. The team has four full-time members, an attached Honorary  Professor of Psychosocial Research  and associate members and collaborators in other faculties. Lynn Froggett has also has a founding and executive role in the development of the UK Network for Psychosocial Studies and The International Research  Group for Psychosocietal Analysis. She is  co-editor of the international Journal of Social Work Practice.  Inr 2009 she will take up the position of visiting research professor at the Universities  of Stavanger in Norway and Roskilde in Denmark

Lynn Froggett’s orientation is strongly interdisciplinary in that her research  and scholarship draws on perspectives from history, philosophy, sociology, social policy, psychoanalytic theory, gender studies and the arts. Prior to her academic career she had a practice and management background in social work with children and families and adult mental health. 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 and well-being.

Publications reflect these interests. In Love, Hate and Welfare: psychosocial approaches to policy and practice (Froggett 2002, Policy Press) she mapped out a  theoretical and conceptual for a research programme which is still developing . In this book she linked social responsibility to its psychosocial roots and developed a distinctively psychosocietal approach to the changing relationships between professionals, managers and people who use services in the British welfare system. Over the past decade this approach has informed work on managerialism, professional supervision and management, aesthetic dimensions of care, dependency, rights and recognition; narrative and biographical methods; arts based approaches to practice, research,  healthcare, welfare organisations and the youth justice system.

Recent empirical research reflect a focuses on integrated approaches to health, social care and human well-being and within this on the role of the arts as a driver of personal and collective change in human services,  and in urban regeneration . For example she has recently led research and evaluation on social enterprise, arts-based healthcare practice, creative interventions in restorative youth justice, engaging communities in the arts, young people and knife crime, dance and mental health, arts on prescription, public health, storytelling and local identities. Much of her work has led to methodological and conceptual development around the ways in which embodied experience is represented and interpreted in research; depth hermeneutic approaches to understanding and reflexivity; intersubjectivity in the research process and the use of video, photography and other visual and art-based methods.

Peer Reviewed Publications since 2000

• 2009 forthcoming ( with A, Farrier, R. Davis, K.Poursanidou) Shotgun Partnership’: a case study from a Systems-Centered perspective. Journal of  Public Sector Management
• 2009 forthcoming (with A. Farrier and K. Poursanidou) Farrier, A., Froggett, L. and Poursanidou, K. Offender based restorative justice and poetry: reparation or wishful thinking? Youth Justice
• 2008 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(b) Arts Based Learning in Restorative Youth Justice: embodied, moral and aesthetic. Journal of  Social Work Practice, 21, 2, 249-361
• 2007 (with  A. Farrier and K. Poursanidou)  Making Sense of Tom: seeing the reparative in restorative justice. Journal of Social Work Practice,  21,1, 103-117
• 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 in Health and Social Care, (pp.89-106) Maidenhead: Mcgraw-Hill Education, 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
• 2006 Social Work, Art and the Politics of Recognition. Social Work and Social Science Review 11, 3, 29-51
• 2004 Narratives of Social Enterprise: from biography to practice and policy critique (with P. Chamberlayne). Qualitative Social Work 3, 1, 61-77
• 2004 Interpreting interviews in the light of research team dynamics: a study of Nila’s biographic narrative (with T. Wengraf) Critical Psychology Vol. 10, 93-121
• 2003 Exploring the Bio-psychosocial (with B. Richards) European Journal of Counselling, Psychotherapy and Health. Vol. 5, 3, 321-326.
• 2002 Love, Hate & Welfare. Psychosocial approaches to policy and practice. Bristol, Policy Press.
• 2002 (with W. Kaufmann) Quixotic Humanism. Free Associations 9, 2 177-188.
• 2001 From Rights to Recognition:  Mental Health and Spiritual Healing among Older Pakistanis, Psychoanalytic Studies Vol 3, 2, 177-186.
• 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 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.