Dr Jo Dillon
PhD, MA, PGCE, BA (Hons), AFHEA
Department of Sociological Studies
Lecturer in Social Work
(She/her)

+44 114 222 6407
Full contact details
Department of Sociological Studies
Elmfield Building
Northumberland Road
Sheffield
S10 2TU
- Profile
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Jo joined the Department of Sociological Studies in April 2019 as a Lecturer in Social Work. Prior to that Jo was an associate lecturer in Social Work at Manchester Metropolitan University, whilst completing her PhD at Liverpool John Moores University.
Before academia Jo enjoyed many years in social care and social work practice, working in both statutory and voluntary sectors in England and Australia. For the most part, Jo’s career in practice was spent working in the field of youth homelessness and teenage pregnancy, but she also worked in child protection, children with disabilities teams and the MASH.
Over the course of Jo’s academic career, she has taught across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for social work, health and social care and early childhood studies.
- Research interests
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- Participation
- Children’s rights
- Child protection proceedings
- Research with children using qualitative and creative research methods
- Publications
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Journal articles
- ‘Wishes and feelings’: misunderstandings and missed opportunities for participation in child protection proceedings. Child & Family Social Work. View this article in WRRO
- COVID-19: changing fields of social work practice with children and young people. Critical and Radical Social Work. View this article in WRRO
- Participation in child protection: A small-scale qualitative study. Qualitative Social Work, 15(1), 70-85.
- ‘Wishes and feelings’: misunderstandings and missed opportunities for participation in child protection proceedings. Child & Family Social Work. View this article in WRRO
- Teaching activities
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Jo is teaching on the MA in social work and the new social work apprenticeships.