Dermot Brady

About

I graduated as a social worker from Kingston in 1994 and did my Masters in Professional Education and training here in 2012. I worked for 25 years in various capacities in the Probation Service. I teach under and post-graduate education in the School of Social work, with emphasis on Practice Education, leadership and management and early transitions into social work practice. I work on the BA (Hons) Working with Children and Young People; social pedagogy. Research interests include domestic abuse and fathering, practice education and I recently lead on the completion of a report with colleagues for the Home Office on cross-county lines drug dealing. I lead On the Job Learning for Kingston University's BA (Hons) Social Work Integrated Degree programme with our employer partners. I am an accredited DASH trainer and make this training is available to all Kingston social work students. I recently published a chapter in Okitikpi, T (2023) The Art of Social Work Practice, Lyme Regis, Russell House Publishing on IT in social work practice and am working on articles on "Black Men in Social Work" (with Kelly Gittens) and "talking to Children about Forest School" with Claire Jackson (school of Education). I am the UK and EU lead for the Caring Dads programme, which addresses abusive and neglectful fathering with men whose children are involved with social work and am a National Trainer for this.