Dr Katrin Bain

Dr Katrin Bain is a qualified social pedagogue and registered social worker, with a PhD in Applied Social Studies from the University of Warwick. She is a senior lecturer on our Social Work BSc and Social Work MSc. She supervises Social Work BSc and MSc students during their dissertation, and is also a PhD supervisor.

Katrin Bain

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Dr Katrin Bain is a qualified social pedagogue and registered social worker with a PhD in Applied Social Studies from the University of Warwick. She is a senior lecturer in social work and the academic lead for the BeSpoke group.

She previously worked at Royal Holloway University and Coventry University as an associate lecturer where she taught on social pedagogy, evidence informed practice, study skills, research methods and supervised master's and PhD students.

Before moving into academia, Katrin worked in Germany and England in the children and families social work sector, including youth work and training.

Katrin currently teaches 'Researchmindedness for Practice' on our Social Work MSc and 'Becoming Researchminded for Practice' and 'International Relationship-Based Approaches for Social Change' on our Social Work BSc.

Her research interests include:

  • social pedagogy in England
  • the relationship between state organised and provided social services with citizens and service users
  • the representation of parents within social policy and social work practice
  • universal design and inclusive education and workplaces
Katrin is a dissertation supervisor for both MSc and BSc social work students. She is an experienced PhD supervisor and available to support PhD projects that fit her research interests or are located within children's services.
 
Research Projects
 
June 2023 - June 2024: Design-Based-Research: Integrating Research Mindedness into the BSc and MSc Social Work degrees
Design-Based-Research project that aims to develop educational materials and insights on how to develop research mindedness of social work BSc and MSc students through a skills day in their first year of study.
 
Research Project: New Public Management, Citizenship and Social Work: Children’s Services in England Revisited, April 2018 to March 2021
 
Replication study of my PhD
Examines how parents who are involved with children’s services are perceived in policy documents, organisational procedures and through social workers
Qualitative content analysis of policy documents and legislation
Expert interviews with social workers
Replication study wants to explore if and how social work has changed in the last 15 years
 
Research project with Professor Tony Evans (RHUL): The Internationalisation of Social Work: The migration of German social work practitioners and ideas to England. Presentation at JSWEC 2014 and published in the BJSW, April 2012 to December 2013
 
New Public Management, Citizenship and Social Work: Children’s Services in Germany and England (part-time PhD), September 2003 to November 2008
A detailed analysis of public policy, organisational procedures and social work practice in children’s services in England and Germany
Developed a citizenship typology mapping different assumptions about parents in contact with social services
Contextualised the results in the history, structure and professional heritage of each country

Bain, K. (2023) Using text-based vignettes in qualitative social work research, Qualitative Social Work, 0

 
Contributor to Harris, J., White, V., (2018) A Dictionary of Social Work and Social Care (2nd Edition). Oxford University Press.
 
 
Wagner, T., Bain, K., Schaarschuch, A., (2011) Zur politischen Produktivität das Citizenship in der Sozialen Arbeit. Adressatenkonzeptein der Sozialen Arbeit zwischen Staatsbürgerqualifikationsarbeit und Entbürgerlichung in: Kommission Sozialpädagogik (Hrsg.) Bildung des Effective Citizen Sozialpädagogik auf dem Weg zu einem neuen Sozialentwurf. Juventa. pp115-126.
 
Bain, K., (2009) Modernising children's services: partnership and participation in policy and practice in: Harris, J. and White, V. (Eds). Modernising Social Work. Policy Press, pp89-106,
 
Bain, K., (2009) Parental Responsibility in: Social Work and Society, Vol 7, No1, pp138 - 141.
 
Lapierre, S., Bain, K., (2008) Parental Responsibility and Partnership: Citizenship and Gender in British Children and Families Social Services in: Oleksy, E., Petö, A., Waaldijk, B., (Eds) Gender and Citizenship in a Multicultural Context. Peter Lang, pp77-92.
  • Board member of the International Journal of Social Pedagogy
  • Member of the Social Pedagogy Reading Group and Social Pedagogy Development Network

Dr Katrin Bain
Senior Lecturer in Social Work
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