Practice. Research. Writing.
My writing begins with questions that have emerged from professional life.
Why is some professional knowledge heard while other knowledge struggles for legitimacy? How do institutions shape belonging? What happens emotionally inside organisations under pressure? How do race, migration, identity and authority influence professional experience? And what can psychosocial thinking reveal that conventional organisational explanations sometimes miss?
These questions connect my research, journal writing and longer-form work.
Doctoral Research
I am completing a Professional Doctorate in Advanced Practice and Research: Social Work and Social Care.
My doctoral research examines the experiences of migrant social workers working within multidisciplinary health and social care teams, particularly questions of professional identity, belonging, legitimacy, organisational authority and interdisciplinary working.
The research draws upon my longstanding professional experience of health and social-care systems alongside psychosocial and organisational thinking.
Journal Writing
My academic writing currently includes three principal strands.
One examines social-work legitimacy within multidisciplinary teams, asking how professional authority and knowledge are negotiated within integrated health and social-care environments.
Another considers space, recognition and organisational life, including the seemingly ordinary informal spaces within healthcare institutions through which hierarchy, belonging and professional relationships can become visible.
A third explores leadership, supervision and organisational complexity through systems and psychosocial perspectives.
Alongside this, collaborative writing emerging from a Tavistock doctoral cohort explores anger as a reflexive phenomenon, considering what anger may communicate and what can become possible when difficult emotions are held within reflective relationships rather than simply suppressed.
Books & Longer-Form Writing
I am also developing two major book projects.
Divide and Conquer: Racism, Institutions and Belonging explores the ways racism can persist through institutions, relationships, silence, ambition, unconscious processes and structures of belonging, even where overtly racist language is absent.
My developing professional memoir, Thinking Under Pressure: A Social Work Journey through Tavistock, reflects on learning to think psychosocially: encountering complexity, authority, uncertainty, discomfort and the institutional dynamics that shape both professional practice and learning.
Across this body of work runs one consistent question: what becomes visible when we stop looking only at the individual and begin thinking about the relationships, histories and systems surrounding them?
That question sits at the heart of my research. And it sits at the heart of Person & Mind.