Dr Joanna Pye

Senior Lecturer in Social work

Social Work

joanne.pye@swansea.ac.uk

Available For Postgraduate Supervision

About

Dr Pye is a registered social worker with over 20 years’ experience of working with children and families within the voluntary, private and statutory setting, This has included working as a field social worker, and for a substantial number of years as a co-founder and registered manager of a residential child care provision for younger children.

Areas Of Expertise

Looked after children and Young people (with particular emphasis on promoting positive outcomes)
Care leavers
Birth family contact for children and young people in care
Residential childcare for children and young people

Career Highlights

Teaching Interests

Teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate modules. Areas include critical issues in social work, therapeutic work with children, research methods, theories and perspectives in social work.

Research

Publications

Research Highlights

Pye, J., Rees, P., & Pye, J. (2018). Factors that Promote Positive Supervised Birth Family Contact for Children in Care. Children and Young People ‘Looked After’? Education, Intervention and the Everyday Culture of Care in Wales University of Wales Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40695
https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/children-and-young-people-looked-after-paperback/

All Research

Book Chapters

Pye, J., Rees, P., & Pye, J. (2018). Factors that Promote Positive Supervised Birth Family Contact for Children in Care. Children and Young People ‘Looked After’? Education, Intervention and the Everyday Culture of Care in Wales University of Wales Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40695
https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/children-and-young-people-looked-after-paperback/

Supervision

A Qualitative Study into the Care and Transition Experiences of Unaccompanied Children/Young people Seeking Sanctuary and Refugee in Wales (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Tracey Maegusuku-Hewett

Taught Modules

ASQ103 Undertaking and Using Social Work Research for Practice

This module will provide students with an introduction to the gathering and use of information in social care services and will provide an introduction to qualitative and quantitative research approaches in social work. This module will provide an introduction to quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation methodologies used to gather and assess knowledge in and for social care services. It will address the different sources, methods and purposes of information gathering. The module will also consider the application and implications of modern information communication technologies to the practice, planning and management of social work.
ASQ201 Theories and Perspectives in Social Work

The module provides the basis for understanding social work theories and perspectives for informing contemporary social work practice in a Welsh context. The module critically considers the concepts and explanations of social work theories and psychosocial perspectives from other disciplines that contribute to the social work knowledge base and its application to ethically-minded practice with service users and carers. Particular attention will be given to methods of case-work, group work, community work, and psycho-social work. Emphasis will be placed on practice in the Welsh context and the translation of theoretical perspectives to methods and tools in practice.
ASQ201W Damcaniaethau a Safbwyntiau mewn Gwaith Cymdeithasol

Mae¿r modiwl yn darparu¿r sylfaen ar gyfer deall damcaniaethau a safbwyntiau gwaith cymdeithasol ar gyfer llywio ymarfer gwaith cymdeithasol cyfoes mewn cyd-destun Cymreig. Ystyria¿r modiwl yn feirniadol y cysyniadau a'r esboniadau o ddamcaniaethau gwaith cymdeithasol a safbwyntiau seicogymdeithasol o ddisgyblaethau eraill sy'n cyfrannu at y sylfaen wybodaeth gwaith cymdeithasol a'i chymhwysiad i ymarfer â meddwl moesegol gyda defnyddwyr gwasanaethau a gofalwyr. Rhoddir sylw arbennig i ddulliau o waith achos, gwaith gr¿p, gwaith cymunedol, a gwaith seico-gymdeithasol. Rhoddir pwyslais ar ymarfer yn y cyd-destun Cymreig a throsi safbwyntiau damcaniaethol i ddulliau ac offer yn ymarferol.
ASQ202W Gwaith cymdeithasol ar waith 2

Bydd y modiwl hwn yn adeiladu ar sgiliau asesu casglu, dethol a phrofi gwybodaeth a ddysgwyd ar Lefel 1 ac yn cyflwyno themâu pellach. Mae¿r rhain yn cynnwys pwysigrwydd gwneud penderfyniadau mewn amrywiaeth o leoliadau a¿r dylanwad y gall pwysau amser ei gael. Rhoddir sylw arbennig i hyn o safbwynt Cymreig, mewn cyd-destun rhyngasiantaethol, gan gynnwys y ffactorau a'r prosesau sy'n hwyluso integreiddio gwasanaethau, cydweithio a phartneriaeth wrth gydweithio ag asiantaethau statudol eraill yn ogystal â gwasanaethau yn y sector annibynnol a gwirfoddol. Bydd y modiwl hefyd yn mynd i'r afael â natur y risg a'r niwed sy'n gysylltiedig ag ymyrraeth ym mywydau unigolion a grwpiau agored i niwed. Bydd yn cynnwys ymarferion ymarferol yn y defnydd o wahanol ddulliau asesu.
ASQ301 Critical Practice in Child Care

The module draws together aspects of earlier modules that have looked at the law, theory, social work practice and values and applies them to children in particular sets of circumstances. Child protection, `looked after children¿, the Integrated Children¿s System and youth justice will receive particular attention.
SW-M03 Critical Practice in Child Care and Law

The central premise of this module is that for practitioners to undertake critical practice they must first develop `criticality¿; an open stance that enables the practitioner to reflect on the context of practice, their own experiences and values as well as the differing perspectives of others. `Criticality¿ is promoted through, for example, personal reflection, reading, research, discussion, debate and analysis. During the module students are encouraged to critically reflect on a wide range of issues together with staff, visiting practitioners, service users and peers. The order in which topics and issues are introduced is arranged so that students are able to gain an understanding of the wider context of child care practice before working through complex case studies of individual children. Students begin by examining international, national and regional child care issues. They then examine key child care legislation and policy before focusing on safeguarding and, in particular, child protection. Specific topics relating to childhood vulnerability are then considered, for example, `State accommodation¿/adoption of children, `youth justice¿ and `asylum seeking children¿. Special attention is given to preventative social work.

Dr Joanna Pye

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About

Areas Of Expertise

Career Highlights

Publications

Research Highlights

All Research

Book Chapters

Supervision

A Qualitative Study into the Care and Transition Experiences of Unaccompanied Children/Young people Seeking Sanctuary and Refugee in Wales (current)

Taught Modules

ASQ103 Undertaking and Using Social Work Research for Practice

ASQ201 Theories and Perspectives in Social Work

ASQ201W Damcaniaethau a Safbwyntiau mewn Gwaith Cymdeithasol

ASQ202W Gwaith cymdeithasol ar waith 2

ASQ301 Critical Practice in Child Care

SW-M03 Critical Practice in Child Care and Law