Emeritus Professor of Social Work, University of Bedfordshire. Independent Chair of Lewisham, Greenwich and Somerset Safeguarding Adults Boards. Author of Safeguarding Adult Reviewers. Research experience focusing on self-neglect, homelessness and adult safeguarding. Trainer offering webinars on self-neglect, learning from safeguarding adult reviews, legal literacy and homelessness. Lead researcher for the first national analysis of safeguarding adult reviews. Awarded a national teaching fellowship, a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an academician of the Academy of Social Sciences.
