Kish is known for her work on social work, race and racism and is particularly interested in ethnically sensitive research methodologies and theories, such as modern racism, which test discriminatory attitudes and behaviours.
She has worked on commissioned evaluation projects which have enabled her to make recommendations directly to child protection agencies and has led on a number of publications which have questioned professional ideologies and beliefs, responses to child abuse within Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic families, cultural racism, anti-Muslim racism and Islamophobia.
Lisa has worked in the field of child welfare and child protection research for the past two decades and has specific interests in the impact of childhood adversity and the development of trauma informed children’s services. She has recently led on the first national prevalence survey of mental health problems and trauma exposure among Northern Ireland youth and, together with colleagues at Queen’s, has conducted a rapid evidence review of system-wide trauma informed care implementation to inform the regional roll-out of the NI Safeguarding Board’s Trauma Informed Initiative. She is currently working on analysis of children’s social care data to identify trends in the relationship between area level deprivation, involvement with child protection social work, and patterns of repeated service use over time.
Kish Bhatti-Sinclair - Co-Editor
Professor of Social Work and Social Policy University of Chichester, UK
Lisa Bunting Co-Editor
School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Lee Sobo-Allen
School of Health and Community Studies, Leeds Beckett University, UK
William Baginsky (Training)
Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, UK
Jenny Driscoll
School of Education, Communication and Society, King’s College London, UK
Carlene Firmin MBE
Department of Sociology, Durham University, UK
Joanna Garstang
Birmingham Community Healthcare Trust, Birmingham, UK
Catherine Hamilton-Giachristis
Department of Psychology, University of Bath, UK
Gabriel J. Otterman
Uppsala University Children’s Hospital, Sweden
Kate Parkinson (Books Reviews)
School of Health and Society, University of Salford, UK
Prospera Tedam
Department of Social Wellbeing, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates
Edgardo Toro Quezada
School of Social Work, Pontifcia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile
Denise Turner (Continuing Professional Development)
Social Worker, Consultant in Bereavement and Loss, Sussex, UK
Michael Fanner
School of Health and Social Work, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Peter Kimani
Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, UK