Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman

Research Projects

• 'Breaking the Silence about Institutional Child Abuse in the Buddhist Monastery in Sri Lanka'. Researcher(s): Mr Namal Rathnayake Mudiyanselage. Supervisor(s): Dr Bob Cecil, Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• ‘Silenced or sustained? Capturing the voices of mothers as survivors of domestic abuse navigating the family courts system’. Researcher(s): Ms Helen Ross. Supervisor(s): Dr Alex Cockain, Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• A REALIST EVALUATION OF THE LEARNING AND PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES IN A CLINICAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME (CLP) TO IDENTIFY WHAT WORKS, IN WHAT CONTEXT AND FOR WHOM, TO IMPACT ON EFFECTIVE WORKPLACE CULTURES AND PERSON-CENTRED CLINICAL LEADERSHIP. Researcher(s): Mrs Helen Stanley. Supervisor(s): Professor Kim Manley, Dr Janet Melville-Wiseman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• A study of health and care profession student experiences in the transition from undergraduate level studies to post graduate study.. Researcher(s): Miss Jeannette Head. Supervisor(s): Dr Nicole Holt, Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Decolonising social work education. A critical analysis of Eurocentric curricula in the Zimbabwean context of Ubuntu. Researcher(s): Mrs SILIBA SIBANDA. Supervisor(s): Dr Alex Cockain, Dr Janet Melville-Wiseman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Doctoral Research Project. Researcher(s): Mrs Muthunaidelage Uthpala Harshin Perera. Supervisor(s): Dr Bob Cecil, Dr Janet Melville-Wiseman. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• Investigating the Role Played by Transformational Leadership in Promoting Effective Child Protection and Safeguarding Process (CPSP): The case of Nigeria. Researcher(s): Ms Chigozie Ugwoji. Supervisor(s): Dr Alex Cockain, Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• Safeguarding Supervision for Nurses in an Acute Setting: Model Development and Application. Researcher(s): Mrs Ann Guindi. Supervisor(s): Dr Jacqueline Wier, Dr Janet Melville-Wiseman. [Postgraduate Research Project (past)]
• Ten years on: the impact of embedded discourses on the culture of adult safeguarding practice in England under the Care Act 2014. Researcher(s): Mrs Erin King. Supervisor(s): Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman, Dr Ian Marsh, Dr Alex Cockain. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The impact, efficacy and quality of Trans and Gender non-conforming (TGNC) teaching within pre-registration adult nursing education in the UK. Researcher(s): Miss Marissa Dainton. Supervisor(s): Dr Toni Wright, Dr Janet Melville-Wiseman. [Postgraduate Research Project]
• The state of social work education and research report 2020-2021. Researcher(s): Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman. [Project report]

• Care experienced social workers as relational activists in the UK Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman, (29 Dec 2023), The Oxford Handbook of Power, Politics and Social Work. [Book chapter]
• Examining relational practice through the unique experiences of care experienced social workers and students Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman, Miss Carol Namata, Joint Universities Council Social Work Education Committee JSWEC2023. [Conference paper]
• The Association of Care Experienced Social Care Workers Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman, The anthology of care experienced social workers. UK. [Book chapter]
• Elusive tensions in everyday relationship-based social work practice: exploring the challenges for social work education at the interface between religion and sexuality Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman, Queering Paradigms IX. [Book chapter]
• Illusions of consent – Police and Crown Prosecution Service responses to victims of professional sexual abuse in mental health services Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman, JSWEC 2021 Cardiff University – on-line conference 8th – 9th July 2021 . [Conference paper]
• Legal protection of title - how far should this extend? Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman, JSWEC 2021 Cardiff University – on-line conference 8th – 9th July 2021 . [Conference paper]
• Listening to the voices of care experienced individuals and communities – the disconcerting values of the Government Children’s Social Care Review Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman: Social Work 2020-21 under Covid-19. [Journal article]
• Elusive tensions in everyday relationship-based social work practice Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman, Second CIRQUE Conference and 10th Queering Paradigms Conference. [Conference paper]
• When is it right to buy: an instrumental case study of 'out of area' rehousing for families in temporary accommodation and implications for social work Mr Timothy Odell, Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman, Joint Social Work Education and Research conference: Grand Challenges for Social Work. [Conference paper]
• When is it right to buy? an instrumental case study of 'out of borough' rehousing for families in temporary accommodation and implications for social work Mr Timothy Odell, Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman, Joint Social Work Education and Research conference: Grand Challenges for Social Work. [Conference paper]
• Spirituality and sexuality: exploring tensions in everyday relationship-based practice Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman, (27 Mar 2017), Routledge Handbook of Religion, Spirituality and Social Work. [Book chapter]
• A case study of an incident of professional sexual abuse in UK mental health services Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman, (2016), International Womens Issues Conference 2016 - Selected Papers, International Women's Issues Conference. [Book chapter]
• The sexual abuse of vulnerable people by registered social workers in England: an analysis of the health and care professions council fitness to practise cases Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman, (25 Oct 2016): The British Journal of Social Work. [Journal article]
• Mental health law in the UK and the professional sexual abuse of women. Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman, Eastern Mediterranean University, Selected Papers from the 4th International Conference - Gender Equality and the Law: Famagusta, Cyprus. [Book chapter]
• Profiles and institutional context of doctors who sexually abuse their patients or colleagues Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman, Interpersonal Violence Interventions - Social and Cultural Perspectives. International Conference,. [Conference paper]
• Teaching through the tension: resolving religious and sexuality based schism in social work education Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman, (May 2013): International Social Work. [Journal article]
• Taking relationships into account in mental health services Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman, (2012), Rights, Risks and Responsibilities: Interprofessional Working in Health and Social Care. Basingstoke. [Book chapter]
• Pathologies or apologies? The usefulness of Luke 17:3 as a model for responding to professional sexual abuse of vulnerable adults in the mental health system Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman, (07 Sep 2011), Beyond Belief: Exploring the Impact of Religion and Belief on Professional Practice’. [Conference paper]
• Professional sexual abuse in mental health services: capturing practitioner views of a contemporary corruption of care Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman, (2011): Social Work and Social Sciences Review. [Journal article]
• Teaching through the tension – an approach to resolving schism in the classroom Professor Janet Melville-Wiseman, (09 Sep 2011), Beyond Belief: Exploring the Impact of Religion and Belief on Professional Practice’. [Conference paper]