Section: Staff Profiles

Susan Hunter

Name
Susan Hunter
Title
Senior Lecturer; Programme Director, MSc Adult Protection
Organisation
Social Work, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
2.25 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0)131 651 1461
E-Mail
URL
http://www.socialwork.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/hunter_susan

Current Research & Teaching Interests

Teaching responsibilities include community care, social work and services for people with learning difficulties and for older people and their carers. Research interests centre around the principle of normalisation, the inter-disciplinary assessment of older people, the concept of 'adults at risk', hospital resettlement programmes (learning disability) and homelessness amongst young people.

Career History

Work experience as a social worker in a therapeutic community in Kent and in child psychiatry in Edinburgh. Worked with Barnardo's as a Senior Social Worker, Senior Residential Officer and Assistant Divisional Officer.

Recent Publications

  • Hunter, S.; Perry, R. (2006), 'Social Inclusion and Choice for Adults with Learning Disabilities: Some Lessons from Reprovisioning', Practice, 18 (3): 207-219. , Routledge.
 

This page was published on 1 February 2010


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