Mary Shannon
As Associate Dean in the School, Mary is the strategic and operational lead for the Social Work subject area. As part of the leadership team she sits on the School Executive Team, contributing to the overall management of the School and leads on several areas. Additionally, she contributes to institution wide committees and workstreams.
Mary has published and researched extensively in the field, with a particular interest in support and preventative services. Mary has substantial experience in the social care sector: as a practitioner and manager in statutory settings across both adult and children's sectors.
Currently, the Associate Dean role includes significant networking with partner agencies across the region and beyond to deliver qualifying programmes, post qualifying and CPD, growing apprenticeship delivery alongside the intersecting highly successful subject research area.
Mary has recently taken up the post of Associate Dean, having been Head of School at the University. As an academic, she has worked as a lecturer/senior lecturer in several universities. She took up a Head of Department role in 2019, prior to working at the University of Central Lancashire.
- Social work and social care
- Family support
- 2013-07-15 to present: Fellow of the HEA
- 2013-01-01 to present: Reviewer (Social Work Education) and ‘British Journal of Social Work’; Book reviewer for Sage Publications
- 2014-09-01 to 2019-07-31:External Examiner - MA Child Protection (Child Protection Centre)
- 2013-09-01 to 2014-07-31: External Examiner (Social Work/Nursing)
Key Research
• 'Sounding Boards' and 'Temperature Checks': An Evaluation of Practice Education Across the West Midlands Teaching Partnership. Carolyn Gair, Rebecca Ford, Mary Shannon, Prof Liz Boath (funded), 2020.
• ‘Evaluation of Signs of Safety’. Follow- Up, In-house report for Salford City Council Children’s Services Director, Manchester 2017.
• ‘Evaluation of SIPH in Salford’ SHUSU May 2016, Shannon M, Martin P, Brown P & Long, T (funded).
• ‘No Second Night Out Salford and Gate Buddies: An evaluation for Riverside ECHG’. SHUSU February 2015, Butler D, Shannon M & Brown P (funded).
• ‘Supporting Children & Families: a comparison in service delivery’. Shannon M & Smyth B. February 2013.
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- Growing and Learning Together: European perspectives in Developing Communities of Learning and HE pedagogy for Apprenticeships: from Curriculum Inception to Delivery and Review.
- HEA Annual conference 2019: Teaching in the spotlight: Learning from global communities - Aston University, Birmingham, 3 Jul 2019 → 5 Jul 2019 (Joint -Elmer S, Shannon M, Shakir S) https://www.bing.com/search?q=hea+annual+conference+2018&src=IE-SearchBox&FORM=IESR3N.
- BASPCAN Congress, April 2018. Warwick University. Paper: ‘Signs of Safety in Practice’ (Joint- Elmer S, Shannon M).
- Tackling the issue of FGM in Higher Education, in: Tackling The Issue of FGM In Schools, 3 November 2016, Manchester. (Unpublished- Shannon, MB and Hesk GCO) https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/40729.
- The ethos of Family Support: Policy-practice restraints and possibilities. (European Conference for Social Work Research 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, April 1 Apr 2016 → 3 Apr 2016, joint Shannon M, Smyth B).
- Translating Intensive Family Support Lessons for Social Work Practice (European Conference for Social Work Research 2015, LJUBLJANA, Slovenia, April 2015).
- Troubled Families: Policy continuity and discontinuity (British Sociological Association conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Apr 2015 → 17 Apr 2015).
- Supporting Children & Families: a comparison in service delivery (BASPCAN Congress, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, April 2015).(Joint - Shannon M, Smyth B).
- Hidden issues affecting young people: Our home, our Salford conference (2014) (Conference Organiser - Hesk, GCO and Shannon, MB) directorate of social work University of Salford, The University of Salford, The University of Salford Peel Hall, Peel Building (unpublished), https://www.salford.ac.uk/chsc/about/nursing-midwifery-and-social-work-news/university-to-hold-refugee-week-event-about-young-people.
- Translating Family Support Lessons (Five Nations Family Support Conference, Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom, September 2014).
Email: Email:Mary Shannon
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