Aisha Howells

Email
a.howells@essex.ac.ukTelephone
+44 (0) 1206 874143
Location
2S2.5.22, Colchester Campus
Biography
I am a registered social worker with 13 years’ experience of working within social care. I started my career as a residential worker and volunteer for the Youth Offending Team. My practice background is in child and family social work. I am also experienced in the supervision of learning and assessment for Newly Qualified Social Workers, apprentices and student social workers. I have held a strategic social work role which involved developing, facilitating and leading the practice education programme and strategy within a local authority across both Adult Social Care and Children & Families services. My previous appointment as Senior Lecturer at University of Suffolk involved Course Lead for two highly commended social work programmes; the undergraduate and apprenticeship provisions. I am also a Senior Fellow (SFHEA). My Ph.D. is exploring the experiences of mothers whose children have experienced child sexual abuse in and around the family using a narrative approach. Professional Membership • Social Work England • Higher Education Academy (HEA) Senior Fellow My current areas of interest and research include: • Creative practice education and social work • Domestic Abuse • Child Sexual Abuse (CSA)
Qualifications
MA Advanced Social Work University of East Anglia,
MA Social Work Anglia Ruskin University,
BA (Hons) European Business Anglia Ruskin University,
Appointments
University of Essex
Lecturer in Social Work, University of Essex (1/11/2023 - present)
Other academic
Senior Lecturer & Course Lead for Social Work, University of Suffolk (22/10/2017 - 31/10/2023)