Professor
Social Work Colin Bell Building, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
I have been practicing as a social worker since 1992, primarily in the area of children and families work. I currently work part time at the University of Stirling and part time at Family Change (a therapeutic service for children and families who have experienced trauma which is funded and managed by Perth and Kinross Council). I qualified as a Play Therapist in 2009 and have found the principles of play based practice to be highly effective in working with children and their carers. At the University, I am the director of the MSc in Social Work Studies (https://www.stir.ac.uk/postgraduate/programme-information/prospectus/applied-social-science/social-work-studies/) and the pathway lead for the PGCert in Advanced Practice Skills. I have a keen interest in supporting students to feel confident in their direct work with service users and developing the skills this requires. The Advanced Practice Skills pathway is targeted at professionals working with children and their families and can form part of the MSc Applied Professional Studies. You can find out more about this course here: https://www.stir.ac.uk/postgraduate/programme-information/prospectus/applied-social-science/applied-professional-studies/ Much of my research work has centred on how looked after children use and navigate ‘ the everyday'. I have explored friendships, school and routines as everyday events which hold significance for children. My work has involved ethnography in the UK, Ireland and Cambodia. Along with Ian McIntosh and Samantha Punch, I have been exploring the food and food practices used by looked after children and their carers. Visit the project website for more information (https://www.foodforthoughtproject.info). I am currently working on projects exploring the experience and meaning of 'therapeutic care' and also the recording of group experiences in residential care.
Looked after children Children's friendships Play Routines and rituals in daily life Food and food practices
Living Archives in Residential Child Care: using the past to inform the future
PI: Professor Ruth Emond
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Everyday care: what makes it therapeutic for children in residential care?
PI: Professor Ruth Emond
Funded by: The Sir Halley Stewart Trust
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Creating better lives? An Evaluation of the Life Changes Trust
PI: Professor Louise McCabe
Funded by: Life Changes Trust
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Safer Places Evaluation
PI: Professor Ruth Emond
Funded by: Aberlour Child Care Trust
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Food for Thought: Food based training, assessment and intervention tools for carers of looked after young people
PI: Professor Ruth Emond
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Food Practices in an Institutional Context: Children, Care and Control
PI: Professor Samantha Punch
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Article
Digital group archives in residential childcare: an investigation into memory responsibility
Lucas S, Burns A, Emond R & Reid L (2024) Digital group archives in residential childcare: an investigation into memory responsibility. Families, Relationships and Societies. https://doi.org/10.1332/20467435Y2024D000000034
Article
Everyday Care: What Helps Adults Help Children in Residential Childcare?
Burns A & Emond R (2023) Everyday Care: What Helps Adults Help Children in Residential Childcare?. Youth, 3 (4), pp. 1301-1316. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth3040082
Research Report
An independent evaluation of the Life Changes Trust. Final Report
McCabe L, Ashworth R, Bellussi L, Blair N, Brown T, Callaghan J, Cheung M, Emond R, Gibson G, Goodwin K, Gray I, Hamilton T, Lamont M, Oliver H & Ormston R (2021) An independent evaluation of the Life Changes Trust. Final Report. Life Changes Trust. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.29438.56649
Research Report
Creating Better Lives? An Evaluation of the Life Changes Trust. Interim Report
McCabe L, Ashworth R, Bellussi L, Brown T, Callaghan J, Cheung M, Crisp S, Curreri A, Emond R, Gibson G, Hale H, Hamilton T, Kelly C, Lamont M & Oliver H (2021) Creating Better Lives? An Evaluation of the Life Changes Trust. Interim Report. The Life Changes Trust. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.16016.79367
Article
Roesch-Marsh A & Emond R (2021) Care Experience and Friendship: Theory and International Evidence to Improve Practice and Future Research. British Journal of Social Work, 51 (1), pp. 132-149. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa131
Article
Lohvansuu J & Emond R (2020) "Everyday" Scottish and Finnish child protection work in an age of austerity: A practitioner perspective ["Arjen" skotlantilainen ja suomalainen lastensuojelutyö talouskurin aikana: ammattilaisen näkökulma]. Child and Family Social Work, 25 (3), pp. 576-584. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12729
Article
'I see a totally different picture now': an evaluation of knowledge exchange in childcare practice
Emond R, George C, McIntosh I & Punch S (2019) 'I see a totally different picture now': an evaluation of knowledge exchange in childcare practice. Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 15 (1), pp. 67-83. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426417X15089137281991
Article
Parallel processes: getting it write?
Emond R, Steckley L & Roesch-Marsh A (2018) Parallel processes: getting it write?. Journal of Social Work Practice, 32 (3), pp. 351-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2017.1384998
Article
Living alone but eating together: exploring lunch clubs as a dining out experience
Thomas N & Emond R (2017) Living alone but eating together: exploring lunch clubs as a dining out experience. Appetite, 119, pp. 34-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2017.03.003
Article
Cox R, Emond R, Punch S, McIntosh I, Hall K, Simpson A & Skouteris H (2017) "It's not as easy as saying, 'just get them to eat more veggies'": Exploring healthy eating in residential care in Australia. Appetite, 117, pp. 275-283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2017.07.004
Article
More than just a bracelet: the use of material symbolism to communicate love
Emond R (2016) More than just a bracelet: the use of material symbolism to communicate love. International Journal of Social Pedagogy, 5 (1), pp. 34-50. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/uclpress/ijsp/2016/00000005/00000001/art00004; https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2017.04
Book Chapter
Creating Spaces to Care: Children's Rights and Food Practices in Residential Care
McIntosh I, Punch S & Emond R (2016) Creating Spaces to Care: Children's Rights and Food Practices in Residential Care. In: Kallio K, Mills S & Skelton T (eds.) Politics, Citizenship and Rights. Geographies of Children and Young People, 7. Singapore: Springer, pp. 39-53. http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-981-4585-57-6_16
Authored Book
A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care: What You Need to Know to Create a Healing Home
Emond R, Steckley L & Roesch-Marsh A (2016) A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care: What You Need to Know to Create a Healing Home. London: Jessica Kingsley. http://www.jkp.com/author/authors/view/id/ruth-emond-9110
Book Chapter
Children, Food and Care Research
Punch S, Emond R, McIntosh I & Lightowler C (2015) Children, Food and Care Research. In: Täubig V (ed.) Essen und Bildung. Ein vergessenes Feld erziehungswissenschaftlicher Forschung. Siegen, Germany: Beltz Juventa. http://www.beltz.de/fachmedien/paedagogik/buecher/produkt_produktdetails/29563-essen_und_bildung.html
Article
Food and Feelings in Residential Child Care
Emond R, McIntosh I & Punch S (2014) Food and Feelings in Residential Child Care. British Journal of Social Work, 44 (7), pp. 1840-1856. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bct009
Article
Emond R (2014) Longing to belong: Children in residential care and their experiences of peer relationships at school and in the children's home. Child and Family Social Work, 19 (2), pp. 194-202. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2206.2012.00893.x
Edited Book
Children's Food Practices in Families and Institutions
Punch S, McIntosh I & Emond R (eds.) (2012) Children's Food Practices in Families and Institutions. London: Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415632263/
Article
Punch S, McIntosh I & Emond R (2012) 'You have a right to be nourished and fed, but do I have a right to make sure you eat your food?': Children's rights and food practices in residential care. International Journal of Human Rights, 16 (8), pp. 1250-1262. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2012.728858
Book Chapter
McIntosh I, Dorrer N, Punch S & Emond R (2011) 'I know we can't be a family, but as close as you can get': Displaying Families within an Institutional Context. In: Dermott E E & Seymour J (eds.) Displaying Families: A New Concept for the Sociology of Family Life. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 175-194. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=395900
Article
McIntosh I, Punch S, Dorrer N & Emond R (2010) 'You don't have to be watched to make your toast': surveillance and food practices within residential care for young people. Surveillance and Society, 7 (3/4), pp. 287-300. http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/ojs/index.php/journal/article/viewArticle/toast
Article
Children and food practices in residential care: Ambivalence in the 'institutional' home
Dorrer N, McIntosh I, Punch S & Emond R (2010) Children and food practices in residential care: Ambivalence in the 'institutional' home. Children's Geographies, 8 (3), pp. 247-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2010.494863
Article
Children's food practices in families and institutions
Punch S, McIntosh I & Emond R (2010) Children's food practices in families and institutions. Children's Geographies, 8 (3), pp. 227-231. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2010.494861
Article
Discussant piece: food and schools
McIntosh I, Emond R & Punch S (2010) Discussant piece: food and schools. Children's Geographies, 8 (3), pp. 289-290. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2010.494868
Article
Caring as a Moral, Practical and Powerful Endeavour: Peer Care in a Cambodian Orphanage
Emond R (2010) Caring as a Moral, Practical and Powerful Endeavour: Peer Care in a Cambodian Orphanage. British Journal of Social Work, 40 (1), pp. 63-81. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcn102
Research Report
Punch S, Dorrer N, Emond R & McIntosh I (2009) Food Practices in Residential Children's Homes: The Views and Experiences of Staff and Children: A Resource Handbook for Reflection. Economic and Social Research Council. Stirling: University of Stirling. http://www.foodforthoughtproject.info/resources
Book Chapter
Immersion dans le monde des enfants places: la demarche de reserche en ethnographie
Emond R (2009) Immersion dans le monde des enfants places: la demarche de reserche en ethnographie. In: Tillard B & Rurka A (eds.) Du Placement a la suppleance familiale: actualite des recherches internationals. Paris: Editions L'Harmattan, pp. 13-34. http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=28176
Other
Children’s Views on Food in Residential Care: Information Leaflet for Children and Young People
Emond R, Dorrer N, Punch S & McIntosh I (2009) Children’s Views on Food in Residential Care: Information Leaflet for Children and Young People. Stirling: University of Stirling. http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-000-23-1581/outputs/read/f4a09286-d5d1-44b1-bd12-4f82247ade44
Article
I Am All about the Future World: Cambodian Children's Views on Their Status as Orphans
Emond R (2009) I Am All about the Future World: Cambodian Children's Views on Their Status as Orphans. Children and Society, 23 (6), pp. 407-417. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2008.00189.x
Book Chapter
Food and Relationships: Children's Experiences in Residential Care
Punch S, McIntosh I, Emond R & Dorrer N (2009) Food and Relationships: Children's Experiences in Residential Care. In: James A, Kjørholt A & Tingstad V (eds.) Children, Food and Identity in Everyday Life. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 149-171. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=321265
Book Chapter
Children’s Voices, Children’s Rights
Emond R (2008) Children’s Voices, Children’s Rights. In: Kendrick A (ed.) Residential Child Care: Prospects and Challenges. Research Highlights in Social Work, 47. London: Jessica Kingsley, pp. 183-195. http://www.jkp.com/catalogue/book/9781843105268
Book Chapter
Some Lessons Learned? A Case Study of Research Dissemination to young people in care
Emond R & Gilligan R (2008) Some Lessons Learned? A Case Study of Research Dissemination to young people in care. In: Chaskin R & Rosenfeld J (eds.) Research For Action: Cross-National Perspectives on Connecting Knowledge, Policy, and Practice for Children. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 111-130. http://global.oup.com/academic/product/research-for-action-9780195314083;jsessionid=00A6FF8029DED7CAD25CEF2AE1BDAC89?cc=gb〈=en&
Article
The theory circle: A tool for learning and for practice
Collingwood P, Emond R & Woodward R (2008) The theory circle: A tool for learning and for practice. Social Work Education, 27 (1), pp. 70-83. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615470601141409
Article
Reflections of a researcher on the use of a child-centred approach
Emond R (2006) Reflections of a researcher on the use of a child-centred approach. Irish Journal of Psychology, 27 (1-2), pp. 97-104. https://doi.org/10.1080/03033910.2006.10446332
Book Chapter
Ethnographic Research Methods with Children and Young People
Emond R (2005) Ethnographic Research Methods with Children and Young People. In: Greene S & Hogan D (eds.) Researching Children’s Experience: Approaches and Methods. London: SAGE, pp. 123-140. http://www.uk.sagepub.com/textbooks/Book216780
Book Chapter
The Problem of 'Youth': An Overview of the Study of Young People
Emond R (2005) The Problem of 'Youth': An Overview of the Study of Young People. In: Beech J, Hand O, Mulhern M & Weston J (eds.) The individual and community life. Scottish life and society: a compendium of Scottish ethnology, Volume 9. John Donald in association with The European Ethnological Research Centre and The National Museums of Scotland.
Book Chapter
An outsiders view of the inside
Emond R (2005) An outsiders view of the inside. In: Crimmens D & Milligan I (eds.) Facing forward: residential care in the 21st century. Lyme Regis: Russell House.
Article
Rethinking our understanding of the resident group in group care
Emond R (2004) Rethinking our understanding of the resident group in group care. Child and Youth Care Forum, 33 (3), pp. 193-207. https://doi.org/10.1023/B%3ACCAR.0000029685.80364.7f
Book Chapter
Ethnography in Practice: A Case Study Illustration
Emond R (2003) Ethnography in Practice: A Case Study Illustration. In: Bennett A, Cieslik M & Miles S (eds.) Researching Youth. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 103-119.
Article
Putting the care into residential care: the role of young people
Emond R (2003) Putting the care into residential care: the role of young people. Journal of Social Work, 3 (3), pp. 321-337. https://doi.org/10.1177/146801730333004
Authored Book
Emond R (2002) Learning from their lessons: a study of young people in residential care and their experiences of education. Dublin: The Children's Research Centre. https://www.tcd.ie/childrensresearchcentre/publications/full.php
Authored Book
Emond R (2002) Learning from our lessons: a handbook written by young people in residential care about our experiences of school. Dublin: The Children's Research Centre. https://www.tcd.ie/childrensresearchcentre/publications/full.php
Article
Understanding the Resident Group
Emond R (2002) Understanding the Resident Group. Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 1 (1), pp. 30-40. http://www.celcis.org/resources/scottish_journal_of_residential_child_care_vol_11_aug_sep_2002
Research Report
Emond R (1999) I thought it would be a bed of roses: the difference between the perception and the reality of leaving care. Centre for Residential Child Care. University of Strathclyde and the Scottish Office.
Book Review
Emond R (1998) 'Childhood' in 'Crisis'?. Review of:
ed. by Paul Scranton, London: UCL Press, 1997, 240 pp. ISBN 9781135360528. Sociology, 32 (4), pp. 888-891. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038598032004020
Book Review
Emond R (1998) Theorizing childhood. Review of:
A James, C Jenks, A Prout, London: Polity, 1998, 256 pp. ISBN 978-0-7456-1565-3. Sociology, 32 (4), pp. 888-891. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038598032004020
Book Review
Emond R (1998) Children's homes revisited. Review of: Children's Homes Revisited, David Berridge and Isabelle Brodie, London, Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd., 1998, pp. 190, ISBN 1 85302 565 8. British Journal of Social Work, 28 (4), pp. 643-645. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjsw.a011377
