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Kate Leonard
Senior Lecturer
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Email:
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Telephone:020 7815 8481
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School/Division:Health and Social Care / Primary and Social Care
Kate has studied the following courses and programmes throughout her education:
- BA Psychology Warwick
- MSW / CQSW Social Work York University
- Practice Teachers Award
- Advanced Certitificate in Risk Assessment and Decision Making in Child protection. LSE.
- Advanced Award in Practice Education [social work]
- PgDip Leadership Coaching
- Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Her areas of expertise are:
- Children and Families Social Work
- Practice Education
- Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
- Interprofessional Working & Learning
- Service User & Carer Involvement
Kate's specialist areas are:
- Learning, Teaching and Assessment
- Mentoring and Coaching
- Interprofessional learning and Working
- Child Development
- Child Observation
- Supervision, Assessment, Risk
- Service user and Carer Involvement
- Oct 2010 Faculty Initiative Funding. £1200. The project is the second stage of a study which explores decision making and the management of risk in social work
- Sept 2010. Skills for Care Grant. £6000. A study to explore the possibility of NQSW's contributing to enabling others' learning. London South Bank University / Kingston University
- Sept 2010. Skills for Care Grant. £6000. A resource for Team Managers to promote practice learning
- July 2008 Skills for Care Grant £53,000. To develop a pilot for work based delivery of PQ social work leadership and management modules
- April 2008 Skills for Care Grant £10,000. To develop service user participation and the use of the arts in teaching in social work. A continuation of the work developed from the previous grant. An evaluation of Gamelan project, making a film and developing service user training
- Jan 2008 LSBU Learning and Teaching Project Innovation Fund. Jill Yates, Kate Leonard, Skills for Care, Children and families Services, Southwark. £10,000
- Young people who have experience of the care system as mentors for LSBU social work students placed in children's services - An innovatory teaching and learning strategy involving service users
- Feb 2007 LSBU London South Bank University) Learning & Teaching Project Innovation Kate Leonard, Trish Hafford-Letchfield and Wendy Couchman (HSC) £15,000 Feb 2007
- Service-user led learning and teaching materials using the arts for post-qualifying social work
View my publications at https://openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/
Registered Social Worker (HCPC)
Kate is also a Senior Fellow of the HEA.