• Social Work

Prior to 2003 worked as a social worker in a local authority fostering and adoption team and with young people in various settings. Undertook the MSc in Applied Social Research here in the Department and started employment as a contract researcher in May 2004, working on various research projects with colleagues in the Social Work Research Centre and latterly within the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research.

• Children and families social work, young people, youth justice, fostering and adoption.

• Crime and Justice
• Childhoods, Families and Relationships
• Scottish Addiction Studies

Books

• No Books in our records

Journal Papers

• Burgess,C., Rossvoll,F., Wallace,B., and Daniel,B. 2010. 'It's just like another home, another family, so it's nae different': Children's voices in kinship care: a research study about the experience of children in kinship care in Scotland. Child & Family Social Work (3):297-306.

Book Chapters

• No Book Chapters in our records

Research Reports

• Evaluation of the Aberlour Care Trust National Parenting Development Project,  2008, co-authored with M.S. Malloch

• Children's Voices in Kinship care: Report of a Research Study about the Experience of Children in Kinship Care, 2008: co-authored with Bruce wallace, Froya Rossvoll and Brigid Daniel

  
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• '1in9': A Scoping Study of Services for Young Runaways, 2007; commissioned by the Scottish Coalition for Young Runaways. Malloch, M. and Burgess, C. 

• 'Staying Afloat' Effective interventions with young people in South Ayrshire: An evaluation of the impact of social work services and related agencies on outcomes for young people, 2007; available on the South Ayrshire Council website

  
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• Evaluation of the Aberlour Child Care Trust Unit 2 Befriending Scheme, 2006; available from Aberlour Child Care Trust

• Evaluation of the Aberlour Child Care Trust National Parenting Development Project, 2006, co-authored with Moira Walker; available from Aberlour Child Care Trust 

• An evaluation of the CHILDREN 1ST Advocacy project for young people involved in the Child Protection system in North Ayrshire, 2005: co-authored with Moira Walker; available from CHILDREN 1ST

Edited Books

• No Edited Books in our records

• Improving Outcomes for Children of Parents with Problem Substance Misuse for Aberlour Child care Trust 2008-11
• Grampian Pilot of Return Home Welfare Interviews for Young Runaways (SCCJR/ Ipsos MORI collaboration for Scottish Government) 2009-10
• Evaluation of Women in Focus Mentoring Service for SW Scotland CJA 2009-11
• Evaluation of CHILDREN 1st 4ward Steps Family Support Service in N.Ayrshire 2009-10